We’re back with the Awards Circuit Power Hour, our weekly podcast show where we bring you the best in Film, TV, and pure entertainment. The Staff has a great show lined up for you this week. The agenda is listed below:
Trailer Talk (Killing Me Softly, The Paperboy, Skyfall)
Venice Film Festival – We discuss the lineup
Reader Question #1
Did You Know? w/ Mark Johnson
Sight and Sound Polls
Reader Question #2
Box Office from the Weekend w/ Mike Ward
State of the Race: Lead Actor and Supporting Actor
We play, “Give Them an Oscar!”
Reader Question #3
The week ahead! (ACCA: Best of Decades coming Monday)
Todd Field has only made two movies to date, but they’ve both been so good that already he’s looked at somewhat as a master of the craft. He’s easily two for two with ‘In The Bedroom’ and ‘Little Children’, and he’s looking to go even darker with his third film. He’s planning another adaptation, this time the novel ‘Creed of Violence’, and Variety is reporting here that he’s talking heavily with Christian Bale for the lead role, which is a pretty ideal teaming in my eyes. After the jump you can see what the film is going to be about, but for me, anything Field and/or Bale (though more so Field than Bale, honestly) get involved with has my undivided attention. Read on for more…
Joaquin Phoenix in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master”
Oscar Predictions, how I love thee yet how I hate thee. As I revealed the newest set of predictions this time around and took a look at the next five months, I haven’t dived into serious awards analysis in a while. A lot of the reason was I felt it was too early and we didn’t know enough. I had an epiphany recently however; we never know what the Oscars are thinking. Even after critics’ awards drop, Golden Globes, SAG, Critics Choice Awards are televised; all mean nothing at the end of the day. Oscar will always do what she wants to do, even when everyone is telling her the obvious choices.
Granted, I am one of the few that thinks they can actually pick some great choices among their winners. I was and still am in the camp that Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist was the best film of last year. I couldn’t have chosen a better film. Does that mean everything that accompanied The Artist was the best? Absolutely not. What Oscar often lacks are edgy, loud, or mainstream choices. Could they have found room for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive or for its leading man Ryan Gosling? How about Steve McQueen’s Shame with the best leading male performance of the year, Michael Fassbender? Like I said, they’re not perfect. And here’s a look into the future…they never will be.
This was a definitive week for us at The Awards Circuit. Thanks to the exclusive content partnership we recently formed with Hollywoodnews.com, your favorite site for entertainment news, awards prognostication, and general movie and television talk has now extended its reach across the internet by being a part of the Awardsrace.com network. This new online network, launched by Hollywoodnews.com, brings pop culture enthusiasts and awards buffs the most up-to-date news on the year’s movie/television/music awards race. You’ll find many of our sites’ articles posted on the network, so please be sure to check it out. Let’s all take pride in this expansion of The Awards Circuit and our incredible new partnership with the web’s leading news of Hollywood-based entertainment, Hollywoodnews.com. Read more on Circuit Round-Up (Week Ending 8/5)…
We’re back with the Awards Circuit Power Hour, our weekly podcast show where we bring you the best in Film, TV, and pure entertainment. The Staff has a great show lined up for you this week. The agenda is listed below:
