Slithery Spacey & Co. Rule the "House of Cards"
Hello, lovelies. Beau here, returning after a major binge of quality television during the past seventy-two hours. Yes, I have finished the first season of the newest business model for the...
View ArticlePi Dominates the VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society awards held their 11th annual awards ceremony last night and Life of Pi dominated the proceedings with four awards, including the top prize for Best Visual Effects in a...
View ArticleCabaret Winners!
"Beedle dee, dee dee dee,Two winners.Beedle dee, dee dee dee,And I'm the only man,Ja!" It's time to announce the winners of the Cabaret contest, pulled randomly from your entries which were doubled if...
View ArticleSmash: "On Broadway" & "The Fallout"
If I had to hold a Playbill while waiting for "Smash"'s second season to begin, my hands would have all smudged with the ink from the anticipatory twisting and rolling and general "start already!"...
View ArticleRetro LOL to Usher in the Weekend
My mouth only waters for a nice, juicy, kosher pickle" LOL. Joan Crawford 4evs. (I know I know. Thursday night is not the weekend but brutal week! I'm starting early.)
View ArticleSecond Viewings Playbook
David here. What induces you to give a film a second viewing? Usually, I suspect it comes down to adoration, and the desire to feel that rush of emotion again, whether it was delirious laughter,...
View ArticleLink-o-mania
This week has been so relentless that I haven't had a chance to publish any of the links I've been storing up. It's a tidal wave of links for vous. You've lots to read this afternoon and over the...
View ArticleDear AMPAS... Love, Team Experience
With the final Oscar voting commencing today -- can we still say "ballots going out" when this season has been so dramatically electronic? -- I asked Team Experience to write very brief notes to Oscar...
View ArticleThoughts I Had... While Staring at the First Image From "Nymphomaniac"
Behold the first still released from Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac which will star Charlotte Gainsbourg (in her third collaboration with the director following Antichrist & Melancholia). These are...
View ArticleBurning Questions: Are Jump Scares Ever Not Awful?
Michael C here. I recently caught up with Andres Muschietti’s Mama and found it to be a decent little chiller with one particularly irksome habit. It is packed end-to-end with cheap jump scares. It’s...
View ArticleBunheads: Eternal Sunshine of the Psychotic Mind
SusanP here, back with more Bunheads coverage. It’s good to see some fans out there are also Film Experience people. For those of you haven’t watched the show, it’s a safe bet you’ll enjoy it if you...
View ArticleI Think I'm Going to Link It Here
NPR Bradley Cooper speaks. And charms. New York Times 'red carpet projects' 478 looks from Oscar's past. Truly random selection but it was fun seeing some of the stunners againLA Times another day,...
View ArticleBAFTAs "live"
David here, bringing you the least live 'live blog' in TFE's history. Nowhere on the planet are the British Academy Film (and Television) Awards broadcast live - not even in their home country. No, we...
View ArticleMelissa McCarthy Robs the Box Office Blind
It was a big big weekend for Melissa McCarthy, who capitalized on that big Bridesmaids breakthrough with her first huge headliner opening of the year in Identity Thief. I use the word "first" because...
View ArticleSupporting Actress, My Ballot
With Oscar barrelling towards us (at last) I have no choice but to wrap up my own awards. I don't know where I'll find the time but forward into film bitch awardage... there's an anchor of grief under...
View ArticlePosterized: The Steven Soderbergh Experience
Given that Steven Soderbergh's "final" theatrical release is 'Now Playing' in theaters near you, I thought it was time to look back on his entire oeuvre. His movies stretched from the Palme D'Or...
View ArticleThree Faces of Link
Inside TV Jacki Weaver gets a sitcom. It's called The McCarthys and she's playing a character possibly not unlike her Silver Linings Playbook character. Best part of the news: Jack McGee, who was so...
View ArticleBunheads: Pantsuit
SusanP here, back for more Bunheads fun. The more I watch the show, the more it surprises me. Even in episodes that I find less engaging, there’s always something to pull me in. I think that has a lot...
View ArticleComplete the Sentence. Just the other day...
I was thinking that if __________ won/lost the Oscar then _____________________ . (*we're recording a podcast right now so discuss amongst yourselves!)
View ArticleLinks of Future Past Right Now
IndieWire Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac won't be ready for CannesE! the real life Navy SEAL who shot bin Laden gets all movie critic like, loving Jessica Chastain but taking some issues with Zero Dark...
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