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Potent Quotables - Margo Channing in All About Eve
Anne Marie here, looking forward to the end of the holidays when we can all toast the new year with a martini in hand. Many iconic movie lines seem to have come from characters who were three sheets to...
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Team FYC: "Blue Jasmine" for Costume Design
In the FYC series, we're spotlighting our favorite fringe contenders. Here's abstew on Blue Jasmine's threads. When it comes to the Oscar for Best Costume Design, the Academy's aesthetic seems rather...
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SAG Nominations Are In!
Good morning Oscar watchers. This morning brings one of the biggest precursors of the season: the Screen Actor's Guild. These days the eventual Oscar cross-over is usually somewhere between "very hot"...
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Goodbye, Eleanor Parker
Anne Marie here with some sad news. Hollywood beauty Eleanor Parker passed away early this week at age 91. Though Parker is best known for her iconic turn as the Countess in The Sound Of Music, she...
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Rita Moreno turns 82
Anne Marie here with some happy news: It's Rita Moreno's birthday! The Puerto Rican showbiz legend has a list of awards as long as her gorgeous legs, and soon she's going to add to it! As Nathaniel...
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Yuletide cinema
Tim here. Two weeks from today is Christmas, which means you have a mere fourteen days left to cram in all the movies – some of them all-time masterpieces, some of them borderline-unwatachable dreck –...
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Oscar's Documentaries: Tales from the Shortlist (Part 1)
Glenn here with the first of three pieces looking at this year’s 15 finalists for Best Documentary. Watch along with us! Prior to the announcement of the shortlist, I had seen roughly 30 of the 151...
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The Golden Globes: The Nominations Announced
Good morning once again. It feels like just yesterday we were getting up early to watch a major awards precursor announce their list of nominees. Well, that's because it was just yesterday. Yikes!...
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Cinderella vs The Sound of Music: Live TV Musicals
It’s been one week since NBC was alive with the sound of Carrie Underwood. Whether you enjoyed The Sound of Music, hated it, or were on the fence, you have to admit that it’s the most talked-about...
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Decoding the Golden Globes animation nominees.
Tim here. In hacking through the Golden Globes nominations this morning, Glenn asks, "The Wind Rises good for foreign language, but not animated? I'm going to assume they don't allow cross-over or else...
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Animated Feature Contender: The Wind Rises
Tim Brayton will be looking at the key contenders for Oscar's Animated Feature race. He previously reviewed Ernest & Celestine, Frozen, and Letter to Momo. This week: The Wind Rises. It’s easy...
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SAG / Globe Part 2...TV Noms
Hey kids. I have been in Iceland for a few days (all will be revealed in time) so I thought I'd pop in quickly for three things. First, to thank Anne, Tim and Glenn for providing you content while I'm...
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To Ozu on His 110th Birthday
Today marks not only the 110th anniversay of Japanese director Ozu Yasujirō's birthday, but also the 50th anniversary of his death. He was born on this day in 1903 and died exactly 60 years later in...
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Team FYC: The Evil Dead's Make-up
We're looking at our favorite fringe awards contenders just to widen the conversation. Here's JA on the drenched-with-everything Deadites of The Evil Dead reboot. Happy Friday the 13th, folks! In the...
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'Gravity', 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Kamasutra 3D' (!) Among 141 Eligible for...
Was 2013 a weak year for film scores? I feel like it was. At least in terms of the scores that Oscar's music branch would pay attention to. I mean, four of my favourite scores of the year aren't even...
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Three Christmas Movies for Friday the 13th
Anne Marie here to spread some holiday scares. Friday the 13th has crept up on us again, bringing joy to thousands of horror fans. If you're a Christmas lover, then these three movies should scratch...
View ArticleTGIF: What's Your Favourite Award Presentation?
Glenn here. It's Friday, which for a lot of people means the weekend. If, like me, you don't work a traditional 9 to 5 job then it means nothing at all. Except, of course, it becomes socially...
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Happy Birthday, Dick Van Dyke
Tim here. Saving Mr. Banks opens in New York and Los Angeles today, and Mary Poppins made its debut on Blu-ray this past Tuesday in a "50th Anniversary" edition bumped up a year for maximum...
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Team FYC: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Enough Said
Team FYC lets Film Experience contributors highlight their favourite fringe contenders for awards season. Here's David Upton on a sitcom star moving mediums. Times have changed since George Clooney...
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Thoughts I Had... While Watching the "Interstellar" Teaser
Presented in the order I had them without self-censorship... you do the same in the comments!
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