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Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: The Master (movie), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Skyfall (movie), The Hurt Locker (movie)
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Oscars speeches: Honestly sincere, or expertly faked?
Los Angeles looks lush. But as often noted, it is actually an arid wasteland where nothing but artifice and self-interest sprouts naturally. That's the cynical, archetypal reading. For instance, two thirds of the way into Nathanael West's cynical,...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Christoph Waltz, Media Industry, Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables (movie)
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Stars pick the directors they want to watch
Let's say there's a row of beautiful movie theaters, and the marquee of each one reads, "New film by (name of filmmaker here)." And let's say there's no other information about the film itself. Which one would you choose? We offered this dilemma to some...
Tags: Pulp Fiction (movie), News Corp., Django Unchained (movie), Emily Mortimer, Mother and Child (movie)
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'Silver Linings Playbook' director David O. Russell returns to themes of neighborhood, family
Opening Nov. 21, "Silver Linings Playbook" is the latest teeming organism from writer and director David O. Russell, whose films include "Flirting With Disaster," "Three Kings" and, two years ago, "The Fighter," for which Christian Bale and Melissa Leo...
Tags: Film Festivals, Movies, Toronto International Film Festival, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment
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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: Holy Motors (movie), Film Festivals, Room 237 (movie), New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
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'Silver Linings Playbook' snags Spirit awards
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The persistent irony of the Film Independent Spirit Awards is that as much as they're positioned as the DIY antidote to the Academy Awards, the indie film with the most Oscars recognition almost invariably reaps the greatest...
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, The Hangover (movie), The Sessions (movie), Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway
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RedEye's 2013 Oscar predictions
For context about predictions of major entertainment events, Duff Goldman from “Ace of Cakes” correctly predicted the result of this year’s Super Bowl. NFL experts did not. Likewise, making Oscar predictions can be a bit ridiculous, as...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Super Bowl, Django Unchained (movie), Joaquin Phoenix, Anne Hathaway
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Predictions: 2013 Oscar nominees
This Thursday brings my annual morning of being excited and nervous and telling myself I won’t yell at the TV. And then doing it anyway. That’s right, it’s the Oscar nominations, for a change announced before the Golden Globes, not...
Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Joaquin Phoenix, Anne Hathaway, Golden Globe Awards, Naomi Watts
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Predictions: Golden Globes 2013--movies
No matter who wins or loses Sunday, the 2013 Golden Globes ceremony obviously will be awesome because Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler are hosting. Really: That should be enough to make even the most awards show-averse movie/TV fans tune in. Yes, there will...
Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, Bill Murray, Django Unchained (movie), Anne Hathaway, Bradley Cooper
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Oscar nominations: 'Lincoln' leads Academy Award contenders with 12
With a conspicuous diss of Kathryn Bigelow, the un-nominated director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning. “Zero Dark Thirty” was one of nine films given the best picture...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Kathryn Bigelow, Django Unchained (movie), Joaquin Phoenix, Bradley Cooper
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Spielberg's 'Lincoln' leads Golden Globe nominations with seven
The nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday by Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Ed Helms. Steven Spielberg's epic on the 16th president, "Lincoln," stood out in the film categories with seven Golden Globe nominations, followed...
Tags: Danny Huston, Kathryn Bigelow, Django Unchained (movie), Bradley Cooper, The Paperboy (movie)
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Movie awards, TV spoilers, local theater
Well, it'll be a while before we get to see the film that was voted best picture of 2012 by the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday: Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," which deals with the hunt for O. bin Laden. It doesn't open in wide circulation...
Tags: Government, Kathryn Bigelow, The Deep Blue Sea (movie), Revolution (movie), Falling Skies (tv program)
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Dec 6, 2012
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