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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: Skyfall (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Awards and Prizes, Flight (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: Celebrities, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Anne Hathaway, Tony Kushner, Lobbying
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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: Movies, The Hunger Games (movie), Saturday Night Live (tv program), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Arts and Culture
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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: The Weinstein Company, Django Unchained (movie), Movies, Harvey Weinstein, Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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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: Movies, Harvey Weinstein, Awards and Prizes, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Entertainment Events
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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: Reality (movie), Chicago International Film Festival, Festive Events, Stanley Kubrick, Rome (Italy)
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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: Django Unchained (movie), Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Duff Goldman, Silver Linings Playbook (movie)
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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), Skyfall (movie), Rachel Weisz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hugh Jackman
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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: Rachel Weisz, Movies, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren
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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: Django Unchained (movie), Movies, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Hugh Jackman
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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: Movies, Breaking Bad (tv program), Kon-Tiki (movie), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Meryl Streep
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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: Movies, Tony Kushner, Treme (tv program), Arts and Culture, Mad Cow Theater
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Dec 13, 2012
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Dec 6, 2012
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