Author: Joey Magidson December 23, 2011
Best Picture: ”Drive” Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn, “Drive” Best Actor: Ryan Gosling, “Drive” Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, “The Tree of Life” Read more on Dublin Critics Dig ‘Drive!’… Comments: 2 Comments |
Author: Robert Hamer December 23, 2011
Oscar Scene: “I’m sorry, Tommy…I’m sorry…tap, Tommy…it’s okay…it’s okay…I love you, I love you, Tommy!” Warrior is an endearingly predictable and sentimental sports drama with big lunges of emotion that end up being more powerful than they have any “right” to be. This success can be primarily attributed to the film’s two stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton, who articulate the Bitter Introvert With A Dark Past and the Everyman Thrust Back Into One Last Fight, respectively, much better than its screenplay ever does. Many critics have (not unjustifiably) heaped praise on Hardy, but sadly, Edgerton’s work has been relatively ignored. That’s unfortunate; for my money he was actually the film’s MVP. Read more on Circuit Consideration: Joel Edgerton in Warrior… Categories: Circuit Considerations
Tags: Best Actor, Circuit Consideration, great performances, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy, Warrior Comments: 8 Comments |
Author: Robert Hamer December 23, 2011 Per usual, the year’s end is very crowded with ambitious Oscar contenders and highly-anticipated prestige projects. The surprisingly (or perhaps it isn’t; Brad Bird is a movie maestro, no?) acclaimed Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol looks to edge past the competition by a hair, and based on Joey’s report is entirely deserved. But what of the new releases?
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been in theaters since Tuesday, but now mainstream moviegoers will get the chance to really turn out in droves for it; a rare feat for a disturbing serial killer mystery. Then again, David Fincher achieved commercial success with Se7en, and his newest is based on a best-selling novel, so why not another brutal and nasty box office success from him? I’ll estimate an $18-23 million take over the next three days. Joey and I were both pleasantly surprised by the unusual tension and lurid style of this remake/adaptation, though I still had serious issues with the story’s empty nihilism. Such dark material will prove a difficult sell for the Academy, and likely has little chances of making Best Picture, Director or Adapted Screenplay. Craft nods, on the other hand, are not out of the question, especially since many of them were feted last year from their Social Network nominations. Read more on Weekend Openings (December 23-25)… Categories: Weekend Openings
Tags: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Oscar contenders, Oscar hopefuls, Pina, The Adventures Of Tintin, The Darkest Hour, the girl with the dragon tattoo, war horse, We Bought a Zoo, Weekend Openings Comments: 1 Comment |
Author: Anna Young December 23, 2011
Andrew (David Hornsby) is the perfect gentleman. He has manors, he’s smart and he has a good job in which he writes about being a gentleman, yet he can’t seem to find a girl to take him seriously. Bert (Kevin Dillon) is well, to put it nicely, a pig. He runs a gym, is beyond stupid and considers himself a man. Now why would these two people be friends? Read more on Worst TV Shows of the Year: #3 How to be a Gentleman… Comments: Leave a Comment |
Author: Joey Magidson December 23, 2011
Oscar Snubs: ‘Imaginary Heroes’ (2004), ‘Into the Wild’ (2007), and ‘Milk’ (2008) I happen to share a birthday with Emile Hirsch (presents are always welcome…just kidding…maybe), but that’s not the reason I admire him as much as I do. Many truly started to appreciate him with his magnificent work in ‘Into the Wild,’ but I’ve been a fan since day 1. He’s one of the more underrated young actors in the industry and one of the few who seems in it for the craft more than anything else. Even those few occasions when he’s appeared in larger scale roles it’s been for a reason other than a payday, and I admire that. Plus he’s just an incredibly talented actor. Hirsch strikes me as someone that could wind up with a whole gaggle of Oscar nominations one day, especially considering his penchant for choosing interesting roles to tackle. Also, consider this a make up for somehow forgetting him on my article of the future A-list actors. Strange, considering he’s one of my favorites. With that, let us move on now and go Under the Circuit with Emile Hirsch! Comments: 7 Comments |
Author: Joey Magidson December 23, 2011
Everybody’s confused about the new Best Picture process. Nobody knows how it will play out, and whether we’ll have five nominees, or 10, or some number in between. But what if I could tell you what happens when the Oscar process is applied to ballots cast by a group of hundreds of voters who’ve historically been an accurate predictor of what Oscar voters will do? I can, and here’s the answer: There won’t be 10 Oscar Best Picture nominees. There will be eight. And we got that number by counting the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ballots the same way the Motion Picture Academy tallies its votes. Read more on Steve Pond predicts 8 Best Picture nominees?… Comments: 1 Comment |
Author: Clayton Davis December 23, 2011
Beverly Hills, CA – Ninety-seven scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 84th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. The eligible scores along with the composer are listed below in alphabetical order by film title: Read more on 97 ORIGINAL SCORES IN 2011 OSCAR® RACE… Comments: 9 Comments |
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