Fans of ’70s crime drama and specifically William Friedkin’s ‘The French Connection’ are guaranteed to get a kick out of Céderic Jimenez’s ‘The Connection’, which finally tells the French side of that story. Gritty violence, music...
This week’s top new Blu-ray release is so good that it (almost) leaves me speechless. I’ll see if I can muster a few words about it (and the rest of the new Blu-ray slate) anyway.
Amidst all the hubbub about the Academy Awards, you might be forgiven for forgetting that the Independent Spirit Awards also took place over the weekend. Certainly, Hollywood seems to have forgotten about them. Once a hipper, edgi...
I want to once again thank all of our great readers who joined us at last night’s Oscar Live-Blog for making the evening such a good time. If it weren’t for you, quite frankly, that trainwreck of an awards show wouldn’t have been ...
In this post, we come to the categories that most people care about, which are tucked further back and spread throughout the telecast just to make sure that you watch the whole thing. Let’s take a look at the four acting categorie...
Awards season always fills me with such anxiety. I worry that the films I deem worthy to win will lose to films that I completely dislike. Like other critics, I know that I’m right and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong. (Yes, ...
This year’s Oscar race is fully in swing. In anticipation of the big ceremony on February 26th, let’s vote for our predictions in the big acting categories.
Let’s do one more of these prior-year look-back Roundtables before we move on to newer topics. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve discussed both the overrated and underrated films of 2011. This week, we’ll talk about our favorit...
Oscar season has officially begun. In a presentation hosted by actress Jennifer Lawrence and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak, the 2012 Academy Award nominations were announced this morning. While m...
Yesterday morning, in a presentation hosted by Woody Harrelson, Sofia Vergara, Gerard Butler and Rashida Jones, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominees for the upcoming Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Januar...
An honest-to-god silent film produced in 2011? Black & white, intertitles, Academy Standard 1.37:1 aspect ratio… the works? That someone would make such a thing, as a genuine feature film intended as anything more than a student s...
The 64th Festival de Cannes wrapped up this past weekend with its annual awards ceremony. The highest honor a film can receive is the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm). Acclaimed films such as ‘Taxi Driver‘, ‘Apocalypse Now‘, ‘The Mission’...
