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October 31, 2011

Here is the full list of nominations:

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
SENNA
SHAME
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
TYRANNOSAUR
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Wheatley – KILL LIST
Steve McQueen – SHAME
Tomas Alfredson – TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Paddy Considine – TYRANNOSAUR
Lynne Ramsay – WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

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October 31, 2011

What’s your favorite scary movie?

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October 31, 2011

A lot of people like to throw around the phrase “torture porn” to describe particularly violent horror flicks.  In fact, my recent piece on the greatest horror films of all time features more than a few movies that certain people would categorize as such.  They do this often without knowing where the term came from or even what it really means.  With Halloween upon us, now is really as good a time as any to delve back into this debate that seems to happen every so often within the industry and in the media as well.  I have an issue with the term, and the very idea of it as well.  I feel that it ghettoizes plenty of worthy horror movies into an unsavory category that they don’t belong in.  Honestly, I’ve yet to find a film that compelled me to label it “torture porn”, though I’ll admit that once or twice I’ve come somewhat close to it.  I know I’m in the minority here, but I just don’t like when things are unfairly lumped together.  It’s just lazy on the part of film critics and audience members, and doesn’t acknowledge that these filmmakers have a particular intent when making their films, not just to get nutjobs to get off on murder.  Plus, the phrase itself doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.  Before we go any further, however, we need to understand what I mean by “torture porn”.

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October 31, 2011

Recovering addict and one time Hollywood bad boy Robert Downey Jr. recently spoke at an awards function and asked the audience about forgiving Mel Gibson. This coming from an actor who knows a thing or two about being banished from the industry and having to work very hard to get back in, though Downey’s crimes were very different than Gibson’s. Downey was an addict, and when stoned did some very stupid things. Addiction is a very different form of social issue than racism, which is not as easily forgiven. There was a time when no isurance company would insure Dowmney on a film, leaving it to the producers, or Downey himself to pay the fee. He understands what it is to be on the outside looking in when you were once on the inside.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

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