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Is Skyfall's Oscar Buzz Real or Just Really Convincing Hype?
Though each new James Bond film lands with a media frenzy of sorts, Skyfall's box-office crushing tour of the Globe has even come with Oscar buzz. As an Oscar pundit, at first I felt I needed to do my...
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First and Last: Mucha
the first and last images or lines of dialogue from a movie first image the last line ...and put a bullet in his brain." Can you guess the movie? I'd post the last shot but it's a movie star closeup so...
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Jodie Foster in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
For Jodie Foster Week I invited guests to talk about favorite Foster films. Here is one of my favorite authors Manuel Muñoz ("What You see in the Dark," "The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue") on a...
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The Linking Daylights
Variety's "The Vote" looks at all time great film scoresNYT remembers voice actress Lucille Bliss (RIP) the voice of Smurfette and Anastasia in Cinderella. Art of the Title Sequence has a cup of fresh...
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TV: Arrow, Nashville, Revenge, Copper, Homeland
For as much as I've tried to ween myself off of TV, it remains the go to entertainment medium when I'm tired- sick, writer-blocked or basically-broke... add those things up and that equals a lot of...
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The Masters of My Eyeballs
I like getting lost at the movies. I live for the moments when you dive into the blue box. Ever since Mulholland Drive, that's what I've called that delirius feeling. That's when a movie with a tractor...
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First & Last: Salaried Killer
the guessing games continue. Here are the first and last images (or lines) from a movie first image last line Live and die on this day Can you guess the movie?
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Curio: Hannah on Thanksgiving
Alexa here. Every year on Thanksgiving I make an effort to catch Hannah and Her Sisters, one of Woody's best and certainly my favorite film with a Thanksgiving theme. Its framing of three Thanksgiving...
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Jodie Foster at 17
Our Jodie Foster 50th Anniversary Celebration continues... Her answer is priceless Michael C here to pass along this clip I discovered while researching the estimable Ms. Foster. Nowadays child stardom...
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The Link is Not Enough
Thompson on Hollywood 5 things you won't learn about the making of Psycho from HitchcockAnimation Mag GKids, that indie distributor who is bringing us great foreign animated Oscar contenders has even...
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Isn't it Bromantic? Gossbender & Hutcherflin
I am, like all sane citizens of the interwebs, living for the Michael Fassbender & Ryan Gosling PDA photos surfacing as they hang out on the set of Terrence Malick's latest. Gosling's cup runneth...
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The Bipolar Silver Linings Playbook
Hey lovelies. Beau here with a recent trip to the David O. Russell multiverse, which has gotten tamer than I once remembered it. I understood Pat Solitano, Jr. and Sr., their individual and...
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First & Last: What'll I Do?
the first and last image from a motion picture (after the title sequence and before the end credits scroll) Another clue?The opening title sequence is underscored by the standard "What'll I Do?"And...
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Swag Watch: Lincoln Cooks, Brave Looks
Two yummy gifts arrived, courtesy no doubt of my BFCA membership. But I always pretend the gifts are bribes (don't judge) since I am CLOTHED IN IMMENSE POWERS OF FOR YOUR CONSIDERATIONING. I thought...
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THR Actress Roundtable - Part 1
Live Blogged via Tape Delay! Woot I've embedded the whole hour at the bottom of this post. Please to enjoy. 00:01 Photoshoots. We begin with a lot of hand to throat or chest or hair gesturing. And......
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THR Actress Roundtable Final Thoughts
But what she really wants to do is laughSee Part One for the full video and commentary on first half hour The Hollywood Reporter's Actress Roundtable has become an event I impatiently await more than...
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Happy Thanksgiving !
I hope your dinner is/was marvelous and the hugs plentiful. Thank you all for reading, donating, sharing, and commenting faithfully over the years! This cartoon from the latest New Yorker made me lol....
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Thanksgiving Linkovers
Good afternoon! I only had one piece of pumpkin pie last night so it absolutely cannot be counted as an unqualified success of a Thanksgiving. So, desperate for leftovers (I wasn't even sent home with...
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Are You Excited For "Bates Motel" or "Hannibal"?
Alfred Hitchcock is getting as much attention this year as 007, what with Vertigo topping the Sight & Sound poll and the new Hitchcock biopic that references Hitchcockian mythology from 1958...
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I Dreamed a Dream That The Film Version of Les Miz Would Be Awesome.
It came true. Tom Hooper, looking very confident, took the stage at Alice Tully this afternoon to welcome everyone to the screening with a Happy Thanksgiving and a confession that he had finished the...
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