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American Hustle... 'you know, for kids!'
Text from a friend: Too bad about their period piece aversion because New Jersey's political history, Abscam, and combover jokes are otherwise such big draws with the kids!
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Catching Up With the Linkses
The Wire a definitive ranking of the hair in American Hustle. Elizabeth Röhm's Dolly Polito and that awesome bathroom showdown between Amy & Jennifer are not high enough!NY Post gives you more...
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Oscar Rejects and Finalists: Makeup and Hairstyling
Though it's perhaps unfair to possible future Oscar nominees who are (tentatively) celebrating, the finalist lists that are announced in the categories that have "bake-offs" have an unfortunate side...
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"12" It Is For Detroit (Short Term) & the AAFCA (Years a Slave)
The Detroit Film Critics Society should really grant me honorary membership given that I'm a Motown export. Although, had I never left home I probably wouldn't have ended up where I am today as a...
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Remembering Peter O'Toole
Screen legend Peter O’Toole died today at age 81. The eight-time Oscar nominee retired from acting last year after a 50-year-long career that included iconic roles in The Lion in Winter, Lawrence of...
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Year in Review: Box Office Bonanzas
YEAR IN REVIEW FESTIVITIES BEGIN NOW! Cue: confetti, trumpets, fainting women, ornery cinephiles, and orgasmic actressexuals™. This is Part One of Millions! Hundred$ of Million$ We'll start with the...
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Film Critics Popping Out Awards All Over the Place
Another day, another ten film critics awards. This eventually slows down or we eventually tune it out whichever comes first. The tuning out happens mostly when we reach the "no new names" part which...
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Podcast: Awards Week Blowout Special
Nathaniel is back from his Iceland trip and going regional with Joe, Nick, and Katey for a one hour discussion of the barrage of film critics prizes from New York, Detroit, Boston and San Diego. And...
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Joan Fontaine (1917-2013)
First Peter O'Toole, and now Joan Fontaine (née Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland)? It's going to be a rough week. Hollywood lost another of its living giants this weekend when Ms Fontaine passed away of...
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"Critics Choice" Nominees - 19 Years of American Hustling
If they made a biopic of the BFCA it would be called 12 Years a Pundit... er, excuse me. 19 Years a Pundit. The BFCA (of which, full disclosure, I am a member) is in its 19th year of Oscar...
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Online Film Critics Society chooses 12 Years a Slave
Tim here - I won't keep you very long, since it's just another damn critics' award, but the OFCS has announced its winners this morning, with 12 Years a Slave winning five times, including only the...
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Linkomaniac
Pajiba Frozen/Star Wars poster mashupTotal Film now that the Weinsteins have access to their Miramax back-catalogue expect sequels. Shakespeare in Love 2 is coming at you (no, this is not a satirical...
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100 of the Oldest Living Screen Stars of Note
With the back-to-back departures of Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine I've been really bummed about losing great artists from Hollywood's Golden Age. The Golden Age is roughly considered to be from...
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The "Original Song" Eligibility List. Hum Along
Look, I enjoyed the "Please Mr Kennedy" song scene in Inside Llewyn Davis as much as anyone -- I was laughing out loud -- but I am curious why people ALWAYS want novelty songs to be honored for gold?...
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Team FYC: Her for Best Cinematography
Team FYC lets Film Experience contributors highlight their favourite fringe contenders for awards season. Here's Amir Soltani on Spike Jonze's Her. In recent years, the Academy's cinematography award...
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Interview: Greta Gerwig on "Frances Ha" and Movie Musicals
Greta at the "Her" premiere in LA last weekTrue stars are always spectacularly themselves onscreen, even when acing the particulars of a new character. And make no mistake, Frances Ha's Greta Gerwig is...
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Curio: Blue-Eyed Bravura
Alexa here. I felt that double wallop earlier this week with the loss of both Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine. It's unfortunate that deaths bring about renewed interest, but I will certainly be...
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FYCs, Ours and Yours
I intended to write a couple of entries of my own "FYCs" this year for our team project but realized that's essentially what my annual FiLM BiTCH Awards double as. I'm almost ready to go ahead with...
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7 Things You Need to Know About the 289 Eligible Oscar Contenders
As you may no doubt have heard AMPAS released the list (included below) of 289 Feature Films which have qualified for Oscar consideration this year in all categories beyond the specialties with complex...
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Top Ten: The Best Sister Acts in Hollywood History
Today's top ten list was inspired by the passing of the great Joan Fontaine, half of Hollywood's most embittered AND most successful sibling rivalry, all-female division. Usually when a movie star has...
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