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Tags: 2011 releases, Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender, Oscar hopeful, Shame, Steve McQueen
Tags: 2011 releases, Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender, Oscar hopeful, Shame, Steve McQueen
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Author: Robert Hamer
October 7, 2011
We only got two wide releases this weekend, folks. One might be a bigtime Oscar player, though its chances dropped post-Toronto. The other, well…take a look:
The possible Academy darling, of course, is the political drama The Ides of March, starring Ryan Gosling as a presidential candidate’s hotshot staffer whose ideals are tested during a heavily-contested primary. Our own John and Anna both seemed to agree that the film is well-acted across the board, but differed somewhat on its overall execution. It’s tough to get a solid read on the film’s Oscar hopes at this point. Certainly its critical reaction is far more muted than the average Best Picture contender can claim, but nominations for Philip Seymour Hoffman and Evan Rachel Wood are still in the cards, as well as possible citations for its screenplay and editing. Another uncertain prospect for the film right now is how it’ll do financially. All the protests and indignation in this country about the very political corruption that Clooney’s film is focusing on might give it a boost…then again, that might be the last thing paying audiences looking to “escape” will want to see right now. Adult-minded films have been doing fairly well this year, so I think Ides should rack up a perfectly fine $11-16 million for its opening haul. Read more on Weekend Openings (October 7-9)…
Categories: Weekend Openings
Tags: 1911, Blackthorn, Dirty Girl, Oscar hopeful, Real Steel, The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), The Ides of March, The Way, Weekend Openings
Tags: 1911, Blackthorn, Dirty Girl, Oscar hopeful, Real Steel, The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), The Ides of March, The Way, Weekend Openings
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Author: Joey Magidson
October 7, 2011
I like Anna Faris as a comedy actress, I really do. If only she’d star in better projects than mediocre stuff like ‘What’s Your Number?’, I wouldn’t have to slum it in order to watch her. Granted, I liked elements of ‘The House Bunny’, but this film can’t even reach that level. This would be raunchy romantic comedy completely wastes its R rating (along with Faris’s comic timing), showing any and all of the funny moments in the trailers. Female driven raunch is great when done right (see ‘Bridesmaids’), but when done poorly, you get something like ‘The Sweetest Thing’, or, well…this. I think Faris is on her way to being one of the funniest actresses in Hollywood, but she really needs to pick more wisely. This is a poorly made film that she has no business being in. There’s really not a whole lot of laughs to be found here, defeating the entire purpose of being a comedy. The plot is predictable, but that can be forgiven if it was at least well done. Suffice to say, it’s not. Romantic comedies often can skirt by with having a multitude of issues if you care about the main relationship. Here, you’re just waiting for the flick to end.
Read more on What’s Your Number? (**)…
Categories: Film Reviews
Tags: 2011 releases, Anna Faris, book adaptation, Chris Evans, What's Your Number?
Tags: 2011 releases, Anna Faris, book adaptation, Chris Evans, What's Your Number?
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Author: Joey Magidson
October 7, 2011
Rarely does a decent film sabotage itself at the climax as badly as ‘Dream House’ does. What starts out as a decent enough psychological thriller with an A-list cast and production team winds up devolving into the kind of trash that struggles to even go direct to DVD. Director Jim Sheridan and Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel make the film look spooky and effective, but writer David Loucka does such an awful job with the latter portion of his script, that it absolutely destroys any of the goodwill the first part of the movie establishes. When a movie stars has that talent behind the camera and people like Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, and Naomi Watts in the cast, you’d assume that someone had read the script. Either they didn’t, or the studio tampered with this in a major way, since the end result is pretty crummy. I literally had far less of a problem with this flick until about the last 20 minutes or so, which are among the worst of anything I’ve seen this year. The summation of a decent majority and an awful minority end up making this a sure fire must miss for most. I can’t imagine anyone leaving this film feeling like they got what they wanted out of it.
Read more on Dream House (**)…
Categories: Film Reviews
Tags: 2011 releases, Daniel Craig, Dream House, Jim Sheridan, naomi watts, Rachel Weisz
Tags: 2011 releases, Daniel Craig, Dream House, Jim Sheridan, naomi watts, Rachel Weisz
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Author: Joey Magidson
October 7, 2011
As always, the Foreign Language Feature category is going to be one of the very hardest to predict this year. It’s rather impossible to know what might ultimately make the cut this year, but at the very least, we now know the films that are vying for a nod. Here is the long list of the 59 flicks from 59 countries that would like to be Oscar nominated this year:
Albania - “The Forgiveness of Blood”
Argentina – “Aballay”
Austria - “Breathing”
Belgium - “Bullhead”
Bosnia and Herzegovina - “Belvedere”
Brazil - “Elite Squad 2″
Read more on 59 Films Go for Foreign Language Oscar……
Categories: News
Tags: 2011 releases, Best Foreign Language Feature, Foreign, long list, Oscar hopefuls
Tags: 2011 releases, Best Foreign Language Feature, Foreign, long list, Oscar hopefuls
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Author: MULTIPLE STAFF
October 7, 2011
John H. Foote (***)
The Way screened last year at TIFF and I had the chance then to see the film and interview Martin Sheen and his son, actor-director Emilio Estevez. My admiration for the film was solid, particularly for Sheen’s performance, having always admired his work as an actor, so I was pleased when the film finally is getting a release. This film could see Sheen get a decent push for an Oscar nomination as Best Actor. The film is certainly stronger than Estevez’ previous work Bobby (2006) which was a sentimental study of how the assassination of Robert Kennedy impacted a group of people in the hotel that very night. Bobby (2006) turned into a pale imitation of an Altman film with characters in and out of one another’s life, all connected by the single event of the killing of Kennedy, which seemed to steal a nation’s sense of hope. More than anything else, Estevez achieved much in capturing the great sense of hope Kennedy brought for the future, and how it was snuffed out by a bullet on a night in 1968. True, far too many characters overwhelmed the film and perhaps the director, but he cannot be denied as a talent behind the camera. With just a single character to focus on this time in The Way, the weight of the film firmly on Sheen’s shoulders, Estevez seems liberated as a director, displaying much more confidence than ever before behind the camera. Read more on The Way (Multiple Reviews)…
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Author: Michael Ward
October 7, 2011
Oscar nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman directs Oscar winner Charlize Theron in “Young Adult”, written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. Reitman and Cody collaborated on the memorable comedy “Juno” and are generating Oscar buzz with this project. Check it out after the jump!
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Categories: Trailer
Tags: Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, best picture, Best Supporting Actor, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Oscar hopeful, Patton Oswalt, trailer, Young Adult
Tags: Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, best picture, Best Supporting Actor, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, Oscar hopeful, Patton Oswalt, trailer, Young Adult
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Author: Robert Hamer
October 7, 2011
Apologies for the delay in posting this obituary, dear readers, but to be honest this news hit me a lot harder than I thought it would. Many of us were already aware of his struggles with pancreatic cancer and other health problems, but Steve Jobs’ death at the age of 56 is still a devastating loss.
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