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Beauty Vs Beast: Let It Be... On!!!
JA from MNPP here with this week's brightest bluest newest round of Beauty Vs. Beast for y'all to play. First things first let's look back at last week's competition, which took David O. Russell's film...
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25 Years Since "She's dead... Wrapped in plastic!"
Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24. Entering town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. Never seen so many trees in my life. As W.C. Fields would say,...
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Interview: Matthew McConaughey and the Body
McConaughey and those haunted eyes in True DetectiveIt's hard to get a moment with a major movie star. They're tightly scheduled and you have to go from 0 to 60 once you're in front of them, recorder...
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Curio: And The Nominees Are
Alexa here with your weekly art appreciation post. This being Oscar week, all the alternative poster designs for the nominated films are making the rounds: see the nominated films posterized as Legos,...
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Drag Race "The Sixening": Half a Premiere
Each year I think about covering RuPaul's Drag Race, so I'm finally doing it. Like Mad Men (and I bet this is the only time you'll hear them compared!) it's awash in fun movie references. Highlights...
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5 Days Til Oscar. When Will John Williams Win a Sixth?
John Williams, the cinema's most widely and wildly celebrated composer, is a nominee again this year for The Book Thief (you can download some sheet music from the score here). He is 82 years old but...
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Seasons of Bette: Dangerous (1935)
Seasons of Bette. Episode 2. Nomination #1 As a sidebar to Anne Marie's "A Year With Kate" series (which I hope you're all enjoying as much as I am - see why I comissioned it?), I'm investigating each...
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Interview: Patricia Norris on 12 Years a Slave, Scarface, Twin Peaks
Patricia Norris with her lifetime achievement from the Costume Guild in 2007Patty Norris is a national treasure but I believe she'd be the last person to say so. When I spoke to the enduring costume...
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Psssst. Oscar voting closed 2 hours ago. Can you believe we're almost there?! Film School Rejects good god, Warren Beatty is still going to make that Howard Hughes picture and it started shooting today...
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Tues Top Ten: Sex and the City Episodes
Jose here to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the end of Sex and the City. That's right, this weekend marked a whole decade since that last time we tuned in to HBO for a new episode. In the ten...
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7 Costume Sights to See Before The Oscars
I sent Anne Marie to the FIDM Museum to check out this year's costume design exhibit. Here's her report. (I'm seething with jealousy right now!) -Nathaniel Michael Wilkinson with some of his Oscar...
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"Nominations for Everyone!" - Saturn Awards
I maintain that a lot of "special interest" awards bodies would instantly be more respectable if they'd limit their number of nominations in a category. The Saturn Awards, who've been handing out...
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4 Days Til Oscar. 4 Time Acting Nominees Leo & Julia
If Oscars were given out for consistent box office performance (there's already a prize for that and it's called "money") Julia Roberts would have won her Oscar in the 1990s when everything she churned...
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"Knowing Jack, it might be some pretend place"
Intelligent Life effortless performances. Oscar don't like 'emTV Line Looking gets a second season. The great supporting cast (save Scott Bakula. Hmmm) promoted to "series regular" - this is terrific...
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A Year With Kate: Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
Episode 9 of 52 wherein Anne Marie screens all of Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order In which Katharine Hepburn looks better in a suit than Cary Grant. I will never turn down a movie...
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Burning Questions: Is '12 Years a Slave' Really Too Rough For Oscar?
Michael Cusumano here. Oscar balloting closed 24 hours ago and this final crunch before Oscar night has me pondering the gap between pre-Fall buzz and the reality heading into the big ceremony. If the...
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Nathaniel's Ballot: Supporting Actress & Breakthroughs
Scrambling to finish my own Film Bitch Awards now, as Oscar night looms. Two new categories announced today: Best Supporting Actress completes the traditional Oscar parallel categories. It won't...
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3 Days Til Oscar. Open Thread
A genie appears offering you three wishes. One of the wishes can't be more wishes (duh!) and this genie is an Oscar queen so he demands that all three wishes be about Oscar night. Go! Here are mine if...
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Where My Girls At? Chastain, Farmiga, Kidman, Bening
And now another edition of "Where My Girls At?" which occurs whenever Nathaniel is longing for actresses who have temporarily gone missing. I'm focusing this one on the beauties we won't even be seeing...
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Every Best Actress Dress
Here's one infographic that seems to have been pulled direct from the subconcious collective subconcious of actressexuals everywhere - it's every Best Actress dress ever worn to the ceremony. Obviously...
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