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National Board of Review Gives a Big Hug to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’

The National Board of Review has a thing for Clint Eastwood. Each one of the director’s films since 2002′s Blood Work has been included in the NBR’s compilation of the year’s top ten films — and now, with the inclusion … Continue reading

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Oscar Predictions: One More Stab Before Critics Have Their Say

The New York Film Critics Circle will announce their 2011 award-winners later today via Twitter (@NYFCC2011), and, with that, a new dynamic will be brought to this year’s Oscar race — the crucial perspectives of the critics groups. While no … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Hugo’ (2011)

With Hugo, Martin Scorsese does what few other prominent, Oscar-winning filmmakers would’ve done in his position: he directs this 3-D film like a kid who’s just found his father’s camera buried in the attic. He glazes everything in the film … Continue reading

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A Busy Year for John Logan

While posting that Coriolanus poster early this morning, I realized what a jam-packed year it’s been for Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator). In addition to penning Ralph Fiennes’ Shakespeare adaptation, Logan has also tackled the writing reigns on … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘The Artist’ (2011)

One of the more discussion-piquing results of contemporary cinema’s ever-increasing implementation of technological advancements is the way these innovations can often distort the essential quality of a film. James Cameron’s Avatar is a perfectly applicable and illustrative, if over-referenced, example … Continue reading

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Oscar Predictions: ‘J. Edgar’ Opens to Intriguingly Cryptic Response

Like the film or not — and, despite some obviously confused work on the page from Dustin Lance Black, I do — I think it’s hard not to be at least somewhat interested in the mixed response that Clint Eastwood’s … Continue reading

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Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’

Another trailer has debuted over at Apple, this time for Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s anticipated foray into 3-D filmmaking that will hit theaters on November 23. I did take in the well-paced — and inventively illustrative — Brian Selznick novel that … Continue reading

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