Links for the Day: Mercury Prize Nominees, Film Society Names New Heads,...
The nominees for the 2012 Mercury Prize have been announced. The Film Society of Lincoln Center welcomes Robert Koehler and Kent Jones. Rush Limbaugh has a kooky new theory about Obama. David Bordwell...
View Article15 Famous Movie Masters
This weekend brings us our first big baity film of awards season, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a supposed Scientology allegory that truly explores crises erupting from a modern man's lack of...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: Toronto International Film Festival Winners, The Master...
Silver Linings Playbook wins top audience prize at Toronto. Paul Thomas Anderson's latest shatters box-office records. Slant contributor Richard Larson releases a new story, "This Serious Midnight."...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: More Mitt Romney Video, Fincher's Lost Classic, Adele to...
Mother Jones exposes more of Mitt Romney's unfiltered opinions. David Fincher's lost classic? We agree. The year's most significant movie? Philip Seymour Hoffman to direct period ghost tale Ezekiel...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: Where Cuba Is Going, Tom Cruise vs. Scientology Backlash,...
Where is Cuba going? How Tom Cruise plans to fight Scientology backlash. bell hooks does not love Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild. Charles McGrath interviews Salman Rushdie. Roman Polanski...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: Emmy Winners, Brooklyn in the Age of Barclays, Village...
Click here for a complete list of yesterday's Emmy winners. What does the Brooklyn of the new Barclays Center have to do with the Brooklyns of yore? Village Voice Media's last-ditch effort to save...
View ArticleOscar Prospects: The Dark Knight Rises
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] For those...
View ArticleOscar Prospects: Looper
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] Does...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: Hillary Clinton's Farewell, Mark Lijek on Argo, Joaquin...
Hillary Clinton says farewell. Mark Lijek breaks down the real Iran escape vs. the Hollywood version. Elvis Mitchell interviews Joaquin Phoenix. Showtime's Homeland irks Lebanon. Robert Avila chats...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: Running Alternative Marathons, European Film Awards...
Along the 26.2 miles, no hordes or cheers, just odd tranquility. Kudos to all those who ran the route anyway. Contenders missed out on chance for big payday. Michael Haneke's Amour leads the...
View ArticleOscar Prospects: The Sessions
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] Biopics...
View ArticleUnderstanding Screenwriting #102: The Master, Robot & Frank, Taken 2, & More
Coming Up In This Column: The Master, Robot & Frank, Liberal Arts, Taken 2, Trouble with the Curve, The Racket, The General Died at Dawn, The Fall Television Season 2012, but first… Fan Mail: A bit...
View ArticleSlant Magazine's Top 25 Films of 2012
From Calum Marsh's introduction to Slant Magazine's Top 25 Films of 2012: "Two thousand and twelve was, if nothing else, a banner year for uncommonly productive provocation. Audiences were galled by...
View ArticlePoster Lab: The Best Movie Posters of 2012
[Editor's Note: Poster Lab is your regular dose of movie poster dissection, and this week brings you the best posters of 2012. For larger images of each poster, and for articles on select posters,...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Original Screenplay
Thanks to Mark Boal's second consecutive slam-dunk teaming with Kathryn Bigelow, the one certainty of this year's Original Screenplay field is a bit of 2010 déjà vu. Boal picked up a statuette that...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actor
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year's likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze, filled with veterans who, however gifted, feel like obvious choices, and...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actress
Boasting enough fine performances to fill a 10-wide field at least, Supporting Actress is this year's most riches-packed race, and the one with the least room for disappointment. In any season, Sally...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Actor
Whether the reason boils down to Oscar politics or an overall lack of enthusiasm, it certainly looks like Joaquin Phoenix is about to be snubbed for his work in The Master, despite the mind-boggling...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Director
When introducing Life of Pi at its New York Film Festival premiere, Ang Lee quipped that there are three things directors are warned to never work with: Children, animals, and water. With his latest,...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Picture
As is customary at this stage of the game, Oscar's top quintet of Best Picture hopefuls are sure to land nominations, so much so that every pundit can pat himself on the back, saying proudly that if...
View ArticleRanking Oscar's 2013 Nominees
The 85th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Starting tomorrow, check back daily as we predict the winner in every Oscar category. This...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actress
Blergh. Weeks ago I dreamed a dream where all the particulars of my presently contentious relationship with Anne Hathaway, a typically smart and endearing performer who was robbed of an Oscar in 2009...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actor
All right, all right, all right. We should've known. As it turned out, Matthew McConaughey's still supple ass cheeks in Magic Mike were no match for AMPAS's preference for saggy old balls in this...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Actor
The larger-than-life aura that Daniel Day-Lewis breathes into the characters he portrays seems also to have in recent years extended to the actor himself, whose notorious choosiness about selecting...
View ArticleLinks for the Day: Critics on Media Violence, Steven Spielberg Developing...
Critics for the New York Times consider the impact of violence on screen. Scientists report first cure of HIV in a child, say it's a game-changer. Steven Spielberg developing Stanley Kubrick's...
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