 A new trailer for Roman Polanski’s Carnage has hit the web. The reviews that have been shared have been positive but no one really seems to be calling it one of the frontrunners. Relationship dramas have had a hard time getting in with Oscar the past few years (Revolutionary Road, Closer). Acting categories, you never know? If Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly decide to go supporting, maybe they have a fighting chance. Same goes for Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet, probably a better chance for them. Trailer is after the jump. Read more on Trailer: “Carnage”…
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 A comment from one of our readers, Nazim, made me post the trailer for this Oscar hopeful. Is Emily Watson a serious contender? Or will War Horse be her only shot at Oscar redemption? Trailer is after the jump.
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This week we have one of the more expansive DVD release offerings in recent memory. With 9 different films coming out for your purchasing pleasure, there is more than usual to choose from, if not exactly a whole host of quality offerings…including one of the most talked about films of the year. I’m going to reserve a spot after my PICK OF THE WEEK to talk about that one, since I’ve had to explain my position on it a few times now. It’s not my top pick though, obviously. My choice is actually one of the funniest comedies of the year and a real joy to watch. It’s:
Horrible Bosses
Though not particularly groundbreaking in any way, this one of the 5 funniest films of 2011 so far. As much as anything else, a sight to behold is Jennifer Aniston playing the dirtiest role of her career. Everyone in the cast of this black comedy does their part with aplomb, but she goes above and beyond in her portrait of a nymphomaniac boss. It may not be an Oscar flick, but it’s easily one of the most purely entertaining films of the year. Doing its job that well earns it this honor. I definitely recommend picking it up on DVD and enjoying it one more time, or trying it out for the first time if you never got around to it in theaters.
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 To those who have been dedicated followers of The Awards Circuit for a while now, it’s no secret that Ryan Gosling is my favorite actor working today. Lucky for me, he’s also one of the pickiest, having yet to appear in anything that I wouldn’t consider a solidly recommendation-worthy film. He’s also been in some incredible and lasting works, showing a real sense of knowing the parts that are right for him and not succumbing to the temptation for easy and high paying parts. With this being perhaps his biggest year as an actor to date in terms of acclaim and notoriety, it’s as good a time as any to dive right into the works he’s done before, the films he had out this year, and what’s next for him. For my money, he ranks right up there with some of the all time greats. When I see Gosling at his best, it’s not much of a stretch for me to feel like I’m watching Marlon Brando when he was a young actor, dazzling the film world with his potential. Am I saying that Ryan Gosling is the next Brando? No, but I think he has the skills to be as good, and maybe even better. In my eyes, he’s surpassed only by Daniel Day-Lewis in regard to being the best actor working today, period. Though plenty of you have seen his recent works, how many of you have seen ‘The Slaughter Rule’ or ‘The United States of Leland’? This article will hopefully shed a light on some of Gosling’s less appreciated but still incredible performances. I wrote an article a few weeks ago on it being Brad Pitt’s year, but I made sure I mentioned Gosling as well, since it’s just as much his year, only without as good a chance at an Oscar nomination at the end of the rainbow. So, consider this a spinoff from that article. In case anyone still isn’t sure if Gosling is a great actor, I present to you my case for him being not only great, but soon to be one of the greats…
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 This is actually my first ever Historical Circuit review…go figure. One would have thought that I would have done a few in the past couple of years, but they always escaped me. That changes now. The subject for my de-virgining is 1982′s ‘The Thing’. This version of ‘The Thing’ is a different animal than the 1951 Howard Hawkes film ‘The Thing from Another World’, so even though it’s a remake it’s worth approaching on its own terms. More graphic/gory and actually more faithful to the story upon which it’s based than the Hawkes flick (which I fully confess to never having gotten the chance to watch), this is a sci-fi action/thriller/horror hybrid that is now considered a classic. In my eyes, it’s not quite an untouchable work of cinema, which makes me somewhat curious about the impending remake coming this week. It’s not a perfect movie, but I do think that for its time it was an impressive film to behold. Director John Carpenter really knows what he’s doing, and while I think he did his best work elsewhere, this is still a very solid outing for him. Featuring state of the art special effects at the time, audiences got something very different when they sat down to take in ‘The Thing’. Those who were fans of the original flick or the original story were in for a gruesome time.
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 Carey Mulligan gets a taste of awards for this upcoming season in the 15th Annual Hollywood Festival and Hollywood Film Awards. Mulligan will be receiving the Best Supporting Actress award for her stunning work in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and as the sister of a sex-addict in Steve McQueen’s Shame.
The Supporting Actor award was revealed in the past weeks to be going to Christopher Plummer as the terminally ill, gay father in Mike Mills’ Beginners.
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