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Year in Review: Best LGBT Characters
year in review part 3 of severalWith 2010 about to wrap, let's do a top ten list albeit a very specific one. Let's make like Barbara Walters and choose The Most Fascinating (Fictional, LGBT) People....
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Make Room For Pearce
Michael C. here from Serious Film to file a complaint.If I were to name the biggest problem currently facing the nation today that problem would be category fraud. Okay, maybe not, but it still irks...
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Movie Thingamajigs. Put That In Your Stocking
year in review - part 4 of severalAre you ever stumped as to what to put in your loved ones Christmas stockings? Here are some ideas culled from this year's movies. Gadgets, random junk or magical...
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Cinematic Shame: Worst of the Year
year in review part 5 of severalI thought it would be tasteless to drop this lump of coal on Christmas so I saved it one day. It's naughty, not nice. But before we get to the unsatisfying trends,...
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The Ballots Are Coming. The Ballots Are Coming.
The day has arrived. Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mails out those mythical Oscar nomination ballots to their members. Each member gets to nominate for their branch category(or...
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Links: True Grit, Spidey, Gay Rugby, and "Original" Films
Movie|Line celebrates a year of "The Verge," their great up-and-coming actor series.Cinema Blend goosing the sales of True Grit (the novel) Today One of the Fantastic Four will die in the comic's...
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For Natalie & Benjamin: A Swan-Themed Wedding.
By now you've probably heard the exciting news that Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millipeid, the Black Swan pair who've been our "crush of the moment" for too many moments now (see sidebar), are...
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Toy Story 3's Brilliant Oscar Campaign
Let's talk about the best FYC campaign of the year. The one where Pixar tries to build a case for Toy Story 3 as the Best Picture of the year, not just a nominee. Pixar won't be happy to just get the...
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Curio: Rich Pellegrino's Portraits
"Marty McFly" gouacheon hardboard, 5 x 7Alexa here with your weekly art appreciation.Nathaniel shared a link to this artist's work with me and I just had to blog it. Rich Pellegrino is a painter, RISD...
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Box Office Blather: Jeff Bridges Double Dips
A weekly box office series, in beta, to see if we like. To remind you that you're here and not elsewhere and we can't just do things normally, we'll come at it from weird angles when we can.Jeff...
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Link House
In Contention on another 'Year of the Woman.'Acidemic's wildly surprising top ten. Erich is his own man as a critic. Which is why I like reading him.BoingBoing life size wax figure of Patrick Swayze in...
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Utah & Phoenix Film Critics: 127 Inceptions For the King
It's so cute that film critics circles are so interested in "their own" as it were. Boston is always accused of rallying behind Boston-set films (in their defense they often have many of them to choose...
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A Lisa Kudrow Binge
"I don't need to see that."This week I accidentally binged on Lisa Kudrow.I've usually enjoyed her comic movie roles (especially in the Don Roos films The Opposite of Sex and Happy Endings) though I...
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Yes, No, Maybe So Double: "Hanna" and "The Other Woman"
It's a double dip for Yes No Maybe So as we're way behind. Can't the movie world just stop for a little bit during the holidays so that we can all enjoy the movies we have right in front of us? Too...
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Year in Review: Music Videos a.k.a. Short Movie Musicals
I couldn't be happier that the music video has regained its cultural capital in the age of YouTube. There's something about the form that is just magical. Or maybe it's just that it's been the most...
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Alexandre Desplat Interview Part 2
Part 1 "How to Watch Movies... with Alexandre Desplat"Part 2 ExcerptsAlexandre Desplat is the busiest composer in film but he made time to talk a few weeks back. My profile will be up at Tribeca Film...
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Patty Clarkson's 2010 Triple: Cairo Time, Easy A and Shutter Island
Patty and the NYC premiere this summerEarlier this month I met with Patricia Clarkson to discuss another fine year in one of the most pleasurable of modern character actor filmographies. Hers. I was...
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Here Comes a New Year...
What's your biggest movie wish? (I haven't given 2011 that much thought yet but I'm hoping that the Pedro/Antonio reunion is worth the wait.)*
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