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Academy Idol 6: Top 13 Results
Two films are eliminated from the competition...
Author: Clayton Davis
December 14, 2012
Author: Mark Johnson
December 14, 2012
The San Diego Film Critics Society has named Argo the best film of 2012. Ben Affleck won the society’s Best Director award, Chris Terrio won Best Adapted Screenplay, and William Goldenberg won Best Editing for their work on the film as well. But the group’s selection for Lead Actress was the standout pick, in my opinion. Michelle Williams won for her heartbreaking performance as a married woman who falls for another man in Take This Waltz. See what else won after the jump…
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Author: Mark Johnson
December 14, 2012
Link(s) of the week:
The big buzz around the web this week was in response to the SAG and Golden Globe nominations. The actors that receive a nomination never seem to generate as much discussion as the actors that get left off, and the web was humming the same tune about the SAG omissions of Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams for their performances in The Master, a film that seemed almost DOA this awards season before the Golden Globes swooped in to save them. Many around the web had the same feelings on the race at this point, but the very best came from the fact-filled SAG analysis from The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg, and his factoids on the Globes impact.
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‘The Master’ Leads Chicago Film Critics Nominations!
'Beasts of the Southern Wild' also gets a boost with 9 nominations...
Author: Clayton Davis
December 14, 2012
2012 CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION NOMINEES
BEST PICTURE
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Lincoln
The Master
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck, Argo
Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
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Trailergate: The Great Trailer Debate
Is the oversaturation of movie trailers changing the viewing experience?
Author: Nicole Melkonian
December 14, 2012
There’s the infamous Watergate scandal; sports followers still get a kick out of Crygate; and Antennagate briefly plagued Apple’s release of the iPhone 4. Well, here’s a new one for you: Trailergate. It’s completely made-up and involves no impeachable offenses or villainous superstar athletes, so bear with me while I set this up.
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Tags: Crazy Stupid Love, Dark Shadows, Django Unchained, Joaquin Phoenix, Lincoln, Peter Jackson, Prometheus, the dark knight rises, The Hobbit, The Master, trailers
Tags: Crazy Stupid Love, Dark Shadows, Django Unchained, Joaquin Phoenix, Lincoln, Peter Jackson, Prometheus, the dark knight rises, The Hobbit, The Master, trailers
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Author: Mark Johnson
December 14, 2012
In the midst of the SAG and Golden Globe news that dominated the week, we missed the announcement of the Las Vegas Film Critics Society’s awards for the year. And being that they opted for something different from the early critical favorite – Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty – we felt it would be better late than never to post the results so you can see that there was more than one great film from 2012. Have a look at what Vegas named best of the year after the jump.
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Weekend Openings: (12/14/2012)
What's opening this weekend?
Author: Nicole Melkonian
December 14, 2012
The long-awaited (expected) journey back to Middle Earth finally sets off with the first installment of Peter Jackson’s imminent The Hobbit trilogy (still baffled as to how this turned into a hat-trick). As Bilbo, Thorin, Gandalf and the rest of the Dwarves make their way to the Lonely Mountain, so too will the film soar to the top of the box office this weekend. Not in the mood for second breakfast? Skip right to lunch with a handful of other menu options…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Language: English
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage
In his younger years, sensible Bilbo Baggins finds himself somehow convinced to venture out of the Shire to accompany a band of Dwarves on a dangerous quest to reclaim a treasure stolen by the evil dragon, Smaug. See what Terrence had to say about this first act. Read more on Weekend Openings: (12/14/2012)…
On the Road (***)
This long in the works adaptation of the literary classic manages not to disappoint...
Author: Joey Magidson
December 14, 2012
After what feels like just about an eternity, I finally saw ‘On the Road’ back in early October at one of the first screenings post Toronto. This is a film that’s been on the verge of release so long it’s almost become an annual joke between Clayton and myself about including it in predictions at the start of each season. Well, this is the year that we can finally talk about the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s legendary book and where it stands in the Oscar race. The verdict on the awards front is that it’s a long shot at best in most categories. Aside from that though, this is a pretty good, if difficult, road trip drama with some notably strong acting from Garret Hedlund and Kristen Stewart especially. Sam Riley is very solid too, but those first two really shine. Walter Salles has shot an absolutely beautiful movie and along with scribe Jose Rivera has captured the words of Kerouac about as well as one could have hoped for (by using the original scroll, actually), even dating back to the days of Francis Ford Coppola seeking to adapt the seminal novel. It’s not especially Academy friendly, and hardly perfect, but it’s not something to completely cross off of your lists either. Time will tell in that regard, but this is a flick worth seeing regardless of its potential for Oscar nominations. The movie opens next week and yes, it was worth the wait, even if it took me almost two months to fully formulate a review of it…
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Tags: Alice Braga, Amy Adams, Early Review, Elisabeth Moss, Garrett Hedlund, Jose Rivera, Kirsten Dunst, kristen stewart, On the Road, Oscar hopeful, Sam Riley, Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard, Tom Sturridge, viggo mortensen, Walter Salles
Tags: Alice Braga, Amy Adams, Early Review, Elisabeth Moss, Garrett Hedlund, Jose Rivera, Kirsten Dunst, kristen stewart, On the Road, Oscar hopeful, Sam Riley, Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard, Tom Sturridge, viggo mortensen, Walter Salles
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Sizing Up: Best Original Screenplay
The final installment in the series looks at Original Screenplays and puts a bow on Sizing Up for 2012...
Author: Joey Magidson
December 14, 2012
We’re at the end of the line. Of course I’m speaking of none other than the making of early groupings of the hopefuls for each major Oscar category. This is the last one for the season, and tackles the Best Original Screenplay race. I freely admit that my success rate is still to be ultimately determined with this year’s crop of articles, but I’m feeling good about things. The precursors have now begun, so this final piece for the year has a bit more fact in its favor than those prior ones. It’s going to be a top heavy list again (like with Adapted Screenplay), but it’s still a deep one in my humble opinion. I did my best to be thorough though. I think most of you will find these rankings pretty interesting, but we shall see about that one, since this category is thought of by some to be pretty weak…or at the very least a big of a mess.
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