All posts tagged "Oscar hopeful"
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Oscar-Nominee Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, and More talk ‘Still Alice’
Last week (the day of the DGA nominations announcement, actually), I was invited to participate in the Press Day for the now Academy Award nominated...
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Interview: Bill Irwin talks TARS and ‘Interstellar’
A few years ago, I really banged the drum to try and get Bill Irwin a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his part in Rachel...
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Interview: J.C. Chandor talks ‘A Most Violent Year’ and his next project ‘Deepwater Horizon’
This may not seem like an overt compliment, but I assure you that it is one: J.C. Chandor likes to talk, and talk a lot....
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INTERVIEW: Ethan Hawke talks ‘Boyhood’ and ‘Predestination’
There’s really no other way to put it…Ethan Hawke is on one hell of a ride right now. He’s been pretty consistent his whole career,...
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Interview: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski talk ‘Big Eyes’ and their writing process
A few weeks ago, I was invited to participate in the New York Press Day for Tim Burton‘s latest film Big Eyes, highlighted by an...
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‘Whiplash’ Listed as Adapted on AMPAS ballots
Some very interesting and potentially nomination shaking news to share with you all. Late last night, I came across a few tweets from Mark Harris...
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Film Review #2: Two Days, One Night (★★★½)
Sometimes an initially simple seeming story can be just chock full of deeper meaning. That sort of quiet power is seen (as well as felt)...
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INTERVIEW: Scribe Anthony McCarten on ‘The Theory of Everything’
Any writer who sits down to pen a screenplay that’s based on a real life figure always has a harder job in my eyes than...
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Film Review #2: Inherent Vice (★★★)
There are very few times when a film seems to consider its own plot pretty much besides the point while also making said plot as...
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First Trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ ‘The Walk’ starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Well, after taking a step back to his earlier days of filmmaking with Flight, director Robert Zemeckis is embracing 3D again in with his latest...
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Interview: Laura Dern talks ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ and ‘Wild’
When it comes to maternal supporting performances, no one has had quite the 2014 like Laura Dern has. She turned in something terrifically touching during...
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Film Review: Wild (★★★)
Slowly but surely, it seems like director Jean-Marc Vallee is becoming a bit of an Oscar whisperer. Dallas Buyers Club was a bigger Academy player...
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Film Review: The Homesman (★½)
E tu, Tommy Lee Jones? The well respected veteran actor/filmmaker is very talented on both sides of the camera, as we all know, though in...
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INTERVIEW: Bennett Miller talks the long road to ‘Foxcatcher’ finally getting made
If there’s one thing that I took away from speaking with Bennett Miller that I wanted to pass along (and isn’t something you can read...
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Jon Stewart talks ‘Rosewater’
Last week, I was invited to take part in a small press conference with comedian/political satirist/fake newsman turned filmmaker Jon Stewart in order to talk...
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David O. Russell wants Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro to co-star in ‘Joy’
Well, consider me shocked. Oh, wait, what’s the opposite of shocked? Anyway, it appears that David O. Russell is planning to not only team up...
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Need help understanding ‘Interstellar’? Here are Some Charts to Help
I think this goes without saying that there are tons of spoilers for Christopher Nolan‘s just released epic Interstellar below. As such, if you haven’t...
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Film Review: Rosewater (★★★½)
With Rosewater, we can officially look at Jon Stewart not just as a satirical newsman/humorist, but as a legitimate filmmaker as well. This is a...
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INTERVIEW: Steve Carell talks ‘Foxcatcher’ and being in the Oscar hunt
Of the many strengths on display in Bennett Miller‘s new movie Foxcatcher (and there are no shortage of those), perhaps the greatest is the performance...
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Film Review #2: The Theory of Everything (★★★)
What a difference the right casting choices can make for certain projects. Without the absolutely extraordinary performance by Eddie Redmayne and the nearly as good...
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Channing Tatum could be one of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’
If Channing Tatum keeps it up, we might need to come up with a witty name for the second act to his still young career...
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Film Review #2: Interstellar (★★★★)
Even with extraordinarily high expectations, I was blown away by Interstellar. What Christopher Nolan has given us is nothing short of a work of cinematic...
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Michael Fassbender is in talks to take on Steve Jobs
Well, that was pretty fast. What seems like only a matter of hours ago I was still speculating on who might be sought out to...
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Christian Bale has left Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic
This is starting to become a trend. First it was David Fincher pulling out of potentially directing this biopic of Steve Jobs, which would have...
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‘Gone Girl’ is officially David Fincher’s highest grossing film
It’s official folks. David Fincher‘s latest film Gone Girl has now risen to the top of the ranks within his filmography…at least in terms of...
