2011 presented a nice eclectic view of cinema we haven’t seen throughout the years. If we summed it up to a ‘theme’ for the year, “silence” or “origins of cinema” would come to mind. Films like Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist” and Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” would fall in line with those thoughts.
When creating my ballots for the Best of the Year, the are obvious categories that are stacked to the brim which would be inevitable for some omissions that in other years would either make the shortlist or be the clear front winner. I’ll address all of these as the week’s ‘Year-In-Review’ winds down but I’ll be curious to hear the thoughts of our readership.
Listed below is the Honorable Mention films ranking my #20 through #11 along with the unranked citations of certain films from the year.
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Categories: Community, Editor Tags: 50/50, A Better Life, arthur christmas, Best of the year, Bridesmaids, Carnage, Certified Copy, Crazy Stupid Love, Hugo, Like Crazy, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Midnight in Paris, pariah, Super 8, Take Shelter, The Descendants, The Muppets, The Tree of Life, Top Ten, Top Tens, war horse, Warrior, Winnie the Pooh
 The year came and went presenting some of the best works seen by directors, actors, composers, cinematographers, and other craftsman. This week we’ll be recapping the year presenting my choices in the best in film. Since our revamp, the design lends itself to other artistic choices and expansion of categories for both myself and the readership. Giving you rundown of the next few days as we kick of 2012 in Awards Circuit Style!
Sunday – Editor’s Honorable Mentions
Monday – Awards Circuit Community Award Ballots Open!
Tuesday – Editor’s Special Awards (Scenes, Genres, Posters, etc.)
Wednesday – Davis’ Award Nominations for Year 2011
Thursday – Awards Circuit Staff’s Top Ten of 2011
Friday – Editor’s Top Ten and Davis’ Award Winners.
ACCA Ballots will close Sunday, January 15, 2011 @ Midnight ET. Here are some changes (positive ones) to the ballots for this year’s ceremony. Read more on Year-in-Review Kicks Off Tonight!…
Categories: Community, Editor Tags: ACCA, ACCA 2011, Awards Circuit Community Awards, Awards Circuit Community Awards 2011, Ballots, Best Motion Picture, Community, Davis Awards, Editor, nominations, Staff, Top Ten, Voting
 For Your Consideration–Best Supporting Actor–Charlie Day
Film: Horrible Bosses
Director: Seth Gordon
Screenplay: Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein
Realistic Oscar Chances: None
Oscar Scene: Stabbing Kevin Spacey with the EpiPen
Move over Melissa McCarthy, because the best comedic performance of the year by a landslide was Charlie Day in Seth Gordon’s Horrible Bosses. Mind you, I had never heard of Charlie Day before I had watched the film, and had never really bothered to watch any episodes of the popular series, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, so I was going in completely unaware of the uncontrolled fits of laughter I was about to receive by this comedic genius. In Horrible Bosses, Charlie Day plays Dale Arbus, a dental assistant who is an unfortunate (or fortunate if you agree with the choice of all time sexiest woman in the world) victim of on-the-job sexual harassment from his dentist boss, Dr. Julia Harris, played with such sexually volatile glee by Jennifer Aniston. After his boss uses duplicitous methods that implicate Dale in a false sexual involvement with her as leverage if ever he were to suggest she was sexually taking advantage of him, Dale finds himself stuck in hole he cannot easily climb out of. Julia blackmails him into having sex with her, or else she is going to tell his new fiance about a false affair, and Dale sees no solution in sight. His only source of hope comes from a suggestion from his good buddy, Kurt (played with dark wit by Jason Sudeikis), that Dale and their other friend, Nick (Jason Bateman), should take matters into their own hands to rid themselves of the evil entities that are their bosses and find a way to — for lack of a better term — kill them. And so this premise begins a series of unforgettable laughs and moments that make Charlie Day shine into a potential mainstream comic star.
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Categories: Circuit Considerations Tags: 2011 comedies, charlie day, Colin Farrell, Horrible Bosses, it;s always sunny in philadelphia, jason bateman, jason sudekis, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, Melissa McCarthy, seth gordon
- Anna Belickis concluded her countdown of the worst, most vile, most inhumane offenses to art that graced the TV screen last year. What was the worst of the worst, and what was the runner-up?
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 Go figure, I’d end 2011 with one of the worst films of the year. I saw 255 films overall, and there’s well over 200 that are superior to ‘The Darkest Hour’. The movie takes a premise with potential, a director who I thought was an up and comer, a scribe credited with work on the much anticipated 2012 release ‘Prometheus’, and a cast of strong young actors, and wastes them all spectacularly. Asininely plotted, boringly paced, and stupid beyond belief, this has to be one of the most disappointing films in some time. I was hopeful that the talent involved could do something with this, but it’s simply drivel. This is 100% going on my Bottom 10 list for 2011. There’s nothing to like about it, and worse yet, it’s not even bad enough to be looked as as a mockery. This is just a poorly executed alien invasion movie that shows multiple signs of being messed with both at the studio level during shooting and also in the editing room. Director Chris Gorak is lost when it comes to making something out of the script by Jon Spaihts (with a story credit to M.T. Ahem, Leslie Bohem, and Spaights himself). I’m a huge Emile Hirsch fan, but he’s wasted in the lead role. I just shook my head through most of this crap. There’s little else you can do when trapped in this theater with something of this level.
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