TIFF Journal: ‘The Connection’
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 ...
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Blu-ray Highlights for June 26th, 2012 – Hush Your Mouth!
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.
Statuesque: Independent Spirit Awards 2012
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...
Statuesque: 2012 Oscars Postmortem
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&...
Statuesque: 2012 Oscar Predictions – Acting Categories
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 cat...
Statuesque: Will the SAG Awards Predict the Oscars?
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. ...
Mid-Week Oscars Poll: Best Actor & Actress 2012
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.
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Acting Performances of 2011
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...
2012 Oscar Nominations Announced
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...
2012 Golden Globe Nominations Announced
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...
Now Playing: ‘The Artist’ Amazes
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 stud...
Cannes 2011 Winners
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‘, ‘Apocal...