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Movie Review: ‘This Means War’

Director: McG | Writers: Timothy Dowling, Simon Kinberg | Cast: Angela Bassett, Chelsea Handler, Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Til Schweiger, Abigail Spencer, Reese Witherspoon | Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 97 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | In the opening … Continue reading

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Hazanavicius Wins DGA, ‘The Help’ Dominates SAG Awards

Over the past few days, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have both voiced their opinion on the year in film, yet each organization has added so little to the conversation that they hardly … Continue reading

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Oscar Nominations Announced: ‘Hugo’ Tops the Field with 11 Nods, ‘The Artist’ Places Second with 10

The complete list of nominees for the 84th Academy Awards, which were announced via the Oscar site’s live stream about an hour ago, can be found after the jump. I’ll update this post later today — probably sometime in the … Continue reading

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Oscar Predictions: One Last Refinement Before Tuesday’s Announcement

Heading into tomorrow’s unveiling of this year’s Oscar nominations, the question remains, as it has all season, as to how the Academy’s freshly revised Best Picture regulations will affect the number of nominees in the category. It’s a fitting place … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Haywire’

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Writer: Lem Dobbs | Cast: Antonio Banderas, Gina Carano, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum | Rating: R | Runtime: 93 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | With Haywire, director Steven … Continue reading

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BAFTA Nominations Announced: ‘The Artist,’ ‘Tinker, Tailor’ Make a Splash

The official nominees for this year’s BAFTAs have been announced, and, as expected, they mostly align with the chapter-endorsed selections that were revealed in the longlist a couple of weeks ago. It’s a gladdening sight to see that they followed … Continue reading

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Hoyte van Hoytema’s ‘Tinker, Tailor’ Lensing Among the Crop of ASC Nominees

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) announced their five feature-film nominees this morning, and the rewarded crop marked another bullet to the chest for War Horse, as Janusz Kaminski’s photography of Steven Spielberg’s critically divisive stage adaptation was merely the … Continue reading

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Miscellaneous Awards 2011

This list of Miscellaneous Awards for 2011 will probably wrap up my year-in-review stuff here on the site. I don’t want to close the envelope completely, because an idea may pop into my head somewhere down the line, but, considering … Continue reading

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The Best Films of 2011

In terms of depth, the cinematic year of 2011 may have been somewhat slim — indeed, I noticed myself stretching just a bit when thinking of ten worthy honorable mentions — but, at the tip of the iceberg, it managed … Continue reading

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San Francisco Critics Also Announce Winners, Admirably Reward Malick’s ‘Tree of Life’

Any group that names Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life the best film of 2011 has an automatic supporter in yours truly, but the San Francisco Film Critics Circle also managed to devise a list of winners that was, from … Continue reading

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