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8 Great (Fictional) Award Show Moments From Movies
It’s silly to think that the outcome of Sunday’s Academy Awards is going to somehow change anything about the films nominated, just like it is silly to get any kinds of worked up about it unless you...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Animated Feature
Best Animated Feature is the youngest current Academy Award category, first given out in 2002 (to Shrek). It is often one of the easiest to predict, perhaps because of its youth but more likely...
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In-Your-Face Sound Design and Music Create the Off-Putting World of ‘Stoker’
At the beginning of Stoker, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) tells us she can hear things more clearly than most people, a talent that is quickly apparent seeing as every noise and sound in India’s life...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Wake Up and Scream’ Recreates ‘Dr. Strangelove’ By Way of ‘Forbidden...
Why Watch? This week we’ve highlighted a few Oscar winning short films, but now it’s time to turn our eyes to a music video that channels a Best Picture nominee. With Wake Up and Scream, Geoffrey...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Stunt Coordination
No matter what you think about the Academy Awards (and there is whole wide spectrum of thought as to their relevance and accuracy) there is no question that The Oscars are the pinnacle of filmmaking...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Documentary Short
Very few winners let alone nominees in the Best Documentary Short category are remembered after the Academy Awards ceremony is over. Can you recall even a single winner in the honor’s more than 70...
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2013 Oscar Predictions: Oscar the Dog and Oscar the Cat Pick the Winners
While it may sound fitting for two film critics to name their pets Oscar, neither Christopher Campbell nor Kate Erbland named theirs for the Academy Awards. It just turns out that two of the Film...
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The Profound Goofiness of Brendan Fraser
If there’s a single moment that can let us 90% know Brendan Fraser, it’s one where he’s in the middle of a poignant discourse on professionally becoming another person in order to help share a story...
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‘Spring Breakers’ Red Band Trailer Just Wants to Be Bad
It feels like it’s been forever since we first learned that Disney princesses Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens were going to be working with Gummo director Harmony Korine in a movie that saw them...
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Scott Cooper Might Put Leonardo DiCaprio Through PTSD, Great Depression, and...
Once upon a time, Leonardo DiCaprio was going to star in a movie about poor people and violent crime. The film was going to be called Out of the Furnace, and it was going to be directed by Ridley...
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Josh Boone to Direct a Cancer Romance That Somehow Wasn’t Written by Nicholas...
Author Nicholas Sparks has built an entire empire based on writing books about people who have terminal illnesses falling in love. It turns out he’s not the only guy out there with an interest in...
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Review: ‘Snitch’ Brings It With Performances and Action Sequences But...
Snitch is “inspired by true events.” Which is to say, it centers around a real-life choice mandated by the justice system for prisoners arrested on drug charges: become an informant, or face lengthy...
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Broken Projector: On the Wrong Side of Oscar History (w/ Special Guest Guy...
With painted-on Tuxedos and a foolish bet about who can accurately predict more Oscar winners, we set out to discuss the Academy Awards with the lucky benefit of hindsight. We’ll be borrowing...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Director
Let’s just get this out of the way right now. The Best Director category at this year’s Academy Awards, regardless of how it turns out, has been tainted by an incredible snub. No, I’m not referring to...
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Film Jockeys #11: Life of the Oscar Party
What happens when a legendary film critic brings is geriatric crankiness to an internet movie show? Film Jockeys follows the adventures of Carl Barker, his far-too-young production staff, the...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Picture
Here it is: the Big Kahuna of the Oscar season. Bestowed upon the producers, the Best Picture award is easily the most memorable category of the Big Six. It often coincides with a Best Director win,...
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Ranking All 53 Films in the Oscars Death Race
Well, here we are. Awards season is almost over and the Oscars await us on Sunday night. What’s left to say? After months of campaigning, precursor awards and general flustering, what have we learned?...
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Celebrating the Naked Man Who Made the Oscar Possible
Every year, dozens of people wrap their hands around Emilio Fernandez‘s torso and hoist him high into the air while thanking their supporters. Usually, they’re played off the stage by a swelling...
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Casting Couch: James Marsden Will Antagonize Ron Burgundy, Megan Fox Will...
What is Casting Couch? It’s your handy one stop destination for news about what all of your favorite and least favorite actors are up to next. Today we’ve got news about Anne Hathaway’s latest excuse...
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Follow This Exclusive Yellow Brick Road to Happiness in ‘Sake-Bomb’ Poster...
Premiering next month in the New Visions section at the SXSW Film Festival, Junya Sakino‘s Sake-Bomb takes the old road trip formula and adds in some extra-special ingredients – like unrequited love,...
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