Box Office: The January Drought
Amir here, with the weekend’s box office report. The first week of January is without doubt host to the least exciting crop of new films every year. Generally speaking, the only type of wide release is...
View ArticleOscar Symposium: The Fifth Spot (Part One)
In which a new Film Experience tradition begins. A pre-nomination mini-symposium about fifth spot battles... NATHANIEL R: Things that are awesome that come in sets of five: fingers, boy bands, the...
View ArticlePodcast: Those Polarizing Wolves on Wall St.
Nick and Joe rejoin Nathaniel & Katey this week to talk about Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. In the endless twitter battle over whether Wolf condemns or celebrates Jordan Belfort,...
View ArticleOscar's One Hit Wonders or When Bad Nominations Happen to Good Actors
When it comes to acting nominations, let's face it, not everyone can be Meryl Streep (the clear leader with 17 nominations and counting). And with only 20 acting nominations to hand out each year,...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Movie Posters of 2013
Glenn here with my yearly tradition of counting down 2013's best movie posters. I've done this for the last however many years at my own blog crowning such gorgeous designs as An Over-Simplification of...
View ArticleLinker and Commander
My New Plaid Pants the greatest "which is hotter?" of all timePajiba's bitch rankings for the new season of Downton Abbey. So happy it's back. Love Mary so much. The Backlot Did Sir Ian McKellen out...
View ArticleCurio: Screenwriter Love
Alexa here. Josh Abraham is a man of many hats: writer, producer, cartoonist. At his etsy shop he sells some of his artwork that has a film spin; I particularly like his Manic Pixie Dream Girl print,...
View ArticleMini-Symposium: Oscar's Fifth Spot (Part Two of Two)
Will American Hustle win multiple acting nods?ICYMI we are starting a new tradition here at The Film Experience. Though we usually gather a handful of prominent film bloggers to discuss the Oscar...
View ArticleI'm Linking As Fast As I Can
Who can keep up this week? Vanity Fair Katey Rich on the embarassing Armond White display at the New York Film Critics Circle awards ceremony. I seriously don't know why the NYFCC risks their...
View ArticleDGA Howls for Scorsese, Russell and Three First-Timers
The Directors Guild of America, more commonly referred to as simply DGA, have announced their nominees for the film year, and the expected nominees prevailed… with the possible exception of the final...
View ArticleInterview: Sarah Paulson's 12 Years of Breakthroughs
There are few things in cinema more satisfying than watching those with true gifts prosper and develop. Overnight sensations are exciting but watching careers that build slowly, continually showing new...
View ArticleTop Ten: Best Red Carpet Looks of 2013
Jose here. The Golden Globes are on Sunday and with them comes one of my favorite seasons of the year: Red Carpet Season. As we speak, dozens of starlets, screen goddesses and a few fashion-forward men...
View ArticleBAFTA nominations
Good morning! David here, up bright (so to speak) and early (definitely) to bring you this year's nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Awards. These are the last set of...
View ArticleWill Eight Be Enough? BAFTA & Best Picture Predix
If you haven't been to the Oscar charts as of late, know that the final predictions will be up Monday night come rain or shine (Sunday is too crowded - Golden Globes Day and after that yours truly is...
View ArticleCostume Designers Guild Hustling for 'Gatsby', '12 Years a Slave', 'Her'
Glenn here to share the Costume Designers Guild nominations that were just announced this morning (what? you think they pay attention to whether other award organisations are announcing the same day?)...
View ArticleIt's Lucky Number Seven for the ASC
Jose here. As if this year wasn’t already complicated enough in terms of finding "the one" frontrunner (don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining!), now the American Society of Cinematographers has gone...
View ArticleLink is the New Blog
Salon Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black) continues to be a great spokesperson for trans people, shutting down Katie Couric's indelicate questions HitFix the composers from Frozen working on Bob the...
View ArticleA Year with Kate: Christopher Strong (1933)
ICYMI - New Series! - Episode 2 of 52 In which Katharine Hepburn plays another British lady, and her acting gets better even if her accent doesn’t. If Katharine Hepburn has one problem in her early...
View ArticleMeryl Loves Herself(ie)
Glenn here taking a little break from arguing about The Wolf of Wall Street and debating just who is best in show from American Hustle to talk about Meryl Streep's love of selfie photos. The most...
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