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Statuesque: The 2015 Spirit & Razzie Awards

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:00:10 +0000

Though you undoubtedly had little reason to notice, the Oscars actually weren’t the only movie awards handed out over the weekend. As per tradition, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Razzies both continued to demonstrate their ever-growing irrelevance. Independent Spirit Awards Originally intended as a celebration of the small indie films that other award ceremonies...

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Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:14:14 +0000

Forget the other six nominees. For weeks now, it has been obvious that the race for this year’s Best Picture Academy Award was really a two-film battle between ‘Birdman’ and ‘Boyhood’. At the end of the long evening, Alejandro Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’ took flight with the prize. I find this a little surprising, honestly. A couple...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Movies Starring 2015 Oscar Nominees

Josh Zyber — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:00:23 +0000

Oh sure, they may be basking in the acclaim of their latest hits now, but this year’s Oscar nominees haven’t always starred in such award-worthy movies. In fact, many of them have made a lot of crap. As we prepare to watch the Academy Awards ceremony this weekend, let’s remember how far some of these...

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Statuesque: Shannon’s 2015 Oscar Predictions

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:00:43 +0000

About a month ago, this year’s Academy Awards seemed like a perfunctory affair, with most of the major categories leaning heavily toward one movie particular movie or actor. Since then, however, it’s become a real horse race between two films: the early frontrunner ‘Boyhood’ and the late bloomer ‘Birdman’. How things will actually pan out...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 15th, 2015 – You Wanna Get Nuts? Come On! Let’s Get Nuts!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:00:21 +0000

We took yesterday off for the President’s Day holiday. Which President did you celebrate? At my house, we favor David Palmer. He may be fictional, but I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. Anyway, this may be a short week, but it’s packed with new Blu-ray releases, including some big Oscar nominees to catch up...

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Statuesque: Redmayne Now a Best Actor Frontrunner

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:00:47 +0000

While there were no huge surprises in the movie categories at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards this past Sunday night, one thing became clear as the evening came to a close: Eddie Redmayne is now the clear frontrunner for a Best Actor Oscar. Redmayne and Michael Keaton each took home Best Actor trophies...

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Poll: How Many of the 2015 Best Picture Nominees Have You Seen?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:00:34 +0000

With the exception of Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’, which just had a huge first weekend in wide release, none of the other nominees for this year’s Best Picture Oscar have made a lot of money at the box office. In fact, this may be one of the lowest-grossing batches of movies ever assembled in the...

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Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:00:52 +0000

The race is officially on! In a presentation broadcast this morning, actor Chris Pine, directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the 2015 Oscar nominations. This year brings us eight Best Picture nominees. Most of them were easy to predict beforehand, though I...

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Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Predictions – Movies

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:00:22 +0000

On Sunday night, January 11th, the 72nd Golden Globes will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Unlike many previous ceremonies, this year there are no clear-cut frontrunners in most of the major categories. Below, I’ll take my best crack at guessing who I think will walk away with the major movie...

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Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Nominations

Josh Zyber — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:00:50 +0000

Is it awards season already? Early this morning, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Peter Krause and Paula Patton announced the 2015 Golden Globe Award nominations. As happened last year, I’m once again disappointed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has largely focused on safe picks, with few of the truly mystifying oddball nominations that used to...

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‘Birdman’ Review: Keaton Soars

Philip Brown — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:00:20 +0000

Birdman is a big swinging bit of show-off filmmaking for everyone involved. Thankfully, the final result is wildly entertaining and just plain weird enough to justify all the grandstanding. No single member of the team succeeds more than Michael Keaton, for whom the film isn’t just a long overdue comeback, but likely the most challenging...

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Weekend Box Office: Hell Hath No Fury

Luke Hickman — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:00:13 +0000

Over this very congested weekend, Brad Pitt and his tank plowed through the competition to win the top spot at the box office. ‘Fury‘ landed in first place with a strong $23.5 million debut, making it the fourth-highest-grossing opening of all time for a World War II flick (behind ‘Pearl Harbor’, ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and ‘Saving...

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