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The Pre Precursor Playbook
NEW PODCASTJust before the first wave of real precursors (NYFCC & NBR) the gang got together with conflicted feelings over a number of topics. Including but not limited to: Matthew McConaughey's...
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Women Who Lie To Themselves™ Box Set
Geraldine Page in "Interiors"Years ago I took a weekend writing retreat to visit my great friend Nick (who you know and love as the man behind Nick's Flick Picks) and while discussing Julianne Moore in...
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Ask Nathaniel
I haven't done a Q&A in so long. And since I must hunker down and transcribe a bajillion interviews for y'all, I turn it over to you to inspire me with questions to answer inbetween the interviews...
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Interview: Ann Dowd on "Compliance" and Oscar Buzz
Ann Dowd loves the word "delicious". She describes her children this way and actors she admires, too ("Annette Bening! She's delicious and such a good actress"). And what word could possibly be a...
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Ruh Roh. Yet Another New Critics Group Predicting the Oscars!
I had a dream that precursor awards would be... so different from Oscar punditryYou know how we're always complaining about there being way too many critics groups? Well now Boston has a second group....
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FYC BFCA
'Critics Choice' Ballots are due today at 3 PM EST and I challenge my BFCA brethren and sisters to squeeze in one more screener / screening before sending off their ballots. I'll unfortunately have to...
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LAFCA Names "Amour" The Best of the Year. (Plus Boston & NYFCO)
Warning this post will contain no photos of Zero Dark Thirty in protest. It's a film I thoroughly enjoyed but critical sweeps do great injustice to the art of cinema each year. No film or performance...
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(Do You Know) What It Feels Like For a Girl?
Variety 10 Directors to Watch gets very international this year including the Norwegian directors behind Oscar submission Kon-Tiki and the Argentinian Andres Muschietti who directed Jessica Chastain in...
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Oscar Prediction Updates
Just a heads up that I've finished updating the Oscar Prediction Charts. Obviously I shall continue tinkering to prettify and add links and fix and whatnot but this is where I stand now. You'll notice...
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Fantine & Cosette at the Les Miz premiere Les Miz needs to just open already! Dying to see it in the theater with an adoring crowd again. An adoring crowd of two at home results in off key...
View ArticleThe AFI Makes Its Oscar & Emmy Predictions
The annual unveiling of the AFI Top Ten List, which began in 2000 or 2001 as I recall, was originally an interesting effort to have a diverse prestigious panel select the ten key American films of the...
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Curio: Holiday Gift List
Alexa here. Every year I spot gifts that I can't quite find the right person for (oftentimes I just end up buying then for myself). This year I've spotted some truly clever film-themed gifts on etsy...
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"Critics Choice" Nominations Full List
My last minute super-campaigning for Perks of a Wallflower's Logan Lerman in Young Actor (at least) appears to have paid off though my other pleas did not. Nicole Kidman's remarkable transformation in...
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Dante's Last
JA from MNPP here. Did you hear the news that the director Kevin Smith says he's retiring from movie-making after he makes a third Clerks film? I haven't seen the first Clerks in many a moon but it's...
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Original Song Eligibility List = Lots of Opportunities For Oscar Night...
Now that Skyfall has been declared eligible can Adele finally break the unofficial NO NOMS FOR BOND thing that's been going on forever?As you may have heard, 75 songs have qualified for consideration...
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SAG Nominations: Bless Them For 'Charlotte Bless'
The Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, now in their 19th year, are often a bipolar experience to read through. I'm annually enraged by the rules dictacting who receives a nomination when an...
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SAG Ensemble. Our Annual "Fix This Rule" Gripe
You may have noticed a few key names missing when the SAG nominatione for ensemble were announced this morning. No, I'm not talking about the casts of Moonrise Kingdom or Magic Mike or other fine...
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Statue The Hoult Gobbler
OhhNooooohhz! that's a really big mouth that's about to gobble up Nicholas Hoult (aka Jennifer Lawrence's Candy) on the new Jack the Giant Slayer poster. Great, now I'm hungry. Remember when really big...
View Article100 Oldest Living Oscar Nominees
This past week brought us the 97th birthday of recent Honorary Oscar winner Eli Wallach and the 96th of big screen legend Kirk Douglas, Spartacus himself. And today is the 83rd birthday of screen...
View ArticleApologies & Open Thread
I'm sorry. A post on the oldest living Oscar nominees went up last night while I was sleeping that was in rough draft stage and written a month ago! Just a perfect byproduct of the terrible terrible no...
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