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Golden Horse Wins
Today's Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-Taiwanese Oscars, spread the wealth. Superstar Andy Lau (A Simple Life, Infernal Affairs, House of the Flying Daggers) had the honor of presenting Best Picture....
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An hour long conversation about his divisive movie. Sometimes you have to hear it from the filmmaker's mouth. Somewhat off topic now... Occasionally with the great filmmakers it feels unseemly to bring...
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The Perks of Being Anna Karenina's Guardian
By the end of each and every November I am buried in piles and piles of screeners in addition to screening invites each night (I'm not complaining) that all arrive within the same two week period (I am...
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Best Actor Battles and Hugh Jackman's Oscar Obstacle
Though most of my Oscar prediction chart updates have to wait for today's screening of Zero Dark Thirty (eeeeeeee! Bring it, Bigelow) it was safe to go ahead and revamp the Best Actor chart since...
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Secret Messages: The 26th
secret messages from the movies Can you guess the movie? What's going on here?
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For Your Consideration: The William Hurt Honor
Moi? Dear Nathaniel, In lieu of gifts this holiday season, I wanted to campaign for the inclusion of a new category in the Film Bitch Awards called: The William Hurt Honor. For those scene-stealers...
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Review: "Hitchcock"
This review was originally published in my column at Towleroad The first thing HITCHCOCK gets right about Hitchcock is the humor. Director Sacha Gervasi's serio-comic adaptation of the book "Alfred...
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Gotham Awards Winners
You inspire him"-Amy Adams to Joaquin Phoenix in The Master Did The Gotham Awards inspire more faith in the possibly fadingg Oscar prospects of The Master? They did not. The following films competed...
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Box Office Bounty For Thanksgiving
Buoyed by Twilight & 007 fanaticism, an abundance of newish Oscar contenders, and even a dusty remake for the crowd that doesn't care about Twilight or the Oscars or, you know, quality, there was...
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Curio: Big on Bigelow
Alexa here. Kathryn Bigelow turns 61 today (really?), and she is just all kinds of awesome, no? Determined and intelligent while blowing past all considerations of gender, she makes films with...
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Liz & Link
Film.com Our friend Joe Reid debuts his Oscar column and explains why Oscars are good for usWinnipeg Free Press interviews Kim Morgan on her Marilyn Monroe essay for PlayboyHuffington Post will Les...
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"Silver Linings" & "Moonrise" Lead Spirit Nominations
Continuing with the trend of star-laden "indies" of reasonable means dominating the once far more independent Spirit Awards, expectant future Best Picture nominee Silver Linings Playbook and Wes...
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Roundtables Galore. Tarantino to Retire?
The annual Actress Roundtable (pt 1 & pt 2) is the only member of THR's delightful tradition of one hour conversations that I can carve out time to cover in full but since the Directors video has...
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Actress Battles: Jessica vs. Jennifer, Quvenzhané vs. History
In a rather beautiful turn of events, both Les Misérables and Zero Dark Thirty arrived to implications of raves (ah, pointless Les Miz embargo) and actual ones (ZDT had no embargo) and though neither...
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Busy Busy. What Are You Busy Thinking About?
Kerry Washington interview forthcoming!I apologize for my radio silence. I've been busy preparing for interviews (4 exciting ones this weekend) and updating Oscar charts (director, picture, actor,...
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Visual Effects Finalists: Superheroes Rule, Subtlety Drools
Yesterday the finalists for Oscar's Visual Effects prize were announced. In the end there will be five nominees but for the next month ten films can dream of winning the nomination before the great...
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SAG Award for Best Cast: Predictions & Wish List
Amir here, to write about one of my favourite awards of the season: the SAG award for "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture". I say "favourite" because, in principle, I love the notion...
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Awards Calendar: Precursor Madness Begins in 3... 2... 1...
Which film will lord over NYC film critics this year?You've probably heard by now that the city-by-city / guild-by-guild precursor madness begin next week. Golden Globe ballots went out to members...
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Nicole & The Noise
Last week, I started prepping the 2012 "film bitch" awards pages and while staring at the rough draft of the acting awards which will be posted the week before the Oscar nominations, I kept thinking...
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