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Alan Menken Goes for a Tangled Record
Serious Film's Michael C. here to shine a light on an overlooked story from the Oscar nominations. With all the attention paid to Tangled focusing on its somewhat surprising exclusion from the Best...
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11 SAG Shots. Drink Up.
Since there is so little to parse anymore in terms of awardage, herewith a brief visual survey of SAG moments that lingered -- reaction shots mostly (fashion roundup still to come.) During live blogs...
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Get Back to Work!
Confession: Every time I see a picture of a director Baz Lurhmann or Quentin Tarantino at a party I want to scream "Get back to work, you!" If I were the boss of great directors they'd have terrible...
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True Clinch
Mattie & Rooster ReunitedAwwwww. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) and Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) didn't wait a quarter century to see each other again. All it took was awards season hustle and...
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January. It's a Wrap
The first month of 2011 has already wrapped... not to mention the first month of this BRAND NEW SITE. Can you believe? The big welcome was only one month ago. Here are ten highlights from the month in...
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Curio: American Psycho Squared
Alexa here. As a follow-up to Nathaniel's Birthday Bale post (and all the American Psycho love shown in the comments) I had to share these wood panels by artist Kelly Puissegur, a.k.a. retrowhale....
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Vanity Fair 2011: "The Young and Beautiful"
Cover shot by Norma Jean Roy The annual Hollywood Issue cover of Vanity Fair has been revealed with. It's called "The Young and Beautiful" After the jump I've broken it down into sections so you can...
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Say What, Winona?
Amuse us by adding dialogue or caption to this tete a tete between Black Swan's Winona Ryder and Barbara Hershey at a SAG party. Noni & Babs at SAG after party You know you want to!
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Red Carpet: Matchy-Matchy, Swans & Sweet Revenge
Previously: SAG live blog and SAG screen shots. Final SAG Post!Aren't you relieved? When people say the verb "sag" do you think automatically think of unionized actors? Glam Overload especially after...
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Link Shop
Fandor Sheila O'Malley on Melissa Leo's career and her ship coming in.Movie|Line 5 Ways The Social Network can reclaim its Oscar mojo.Observations on Film Art Facial acting "less with the eyebrows" in...
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Happy Groundhog Day
You wouldn't know it to look outside here in New York City where it's been a wintry wonderland (or horror show depending on your point of view) but we're supposedly due for an early spring. Which is to...
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New DVD: Let Me In
It occurred to me recently that I had never said anything about Let Me In, post theatrical release, so let's do that now since it's fresh out on DVD. The American vampire film won a few year-end...
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Best Supporting Actress. My Ballot
I'm so tardy with my own awards. I generally get all the major stuff up before Oscar nominations but no such luck this year. I'll try to throw up at least one category per day now so we can finish this...
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James and Anne Vs. The World
♪ A little ditty 'bout James and Aaaa-aanne... two American kids growing up in the heartland... ♫ THE OSCAR BALLOTS HAVE GONE OUT. Since the Oscar race is all over but the gowns and speeches and the...
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Sweet Bird of Link
Zimbio The 50 Most Beautiful Women Over 50Towleroad Conflicting reports about how gay Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic is going to be.Cinemablographer Canada's Genie nominations. Incendies, also...
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TV @ The Movies: "Meryl Streep Realness"
TV @ The Movies is a series that came to life because we always perk up when movies or movie actors are name-checked on the small screen. Who and what fillters into pop culture? And in what form? Are...
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Year of the Rabbit
Happy Chinese New Year! 卯 It's the Year of the Rabbit. How will you celebrate?
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Contest: Warren Beatty "STAR"
Had a few difficulties with contests last year, but 2011 is a new year, new site, new beginning. We start anew. Here's contest #1. More to come. I have three copies of Peter Biskind's book "Star: How...
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The Drama, Tragicomedy and Mystery of This Year's Oscars.
Over at Tribeca Film in my weekly Oscar column I'm examining where we are now Post-SAG with ballots out and just two precursors left (BAFTA & The Spirit Awards) which aren't really precursors in...
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Distant Relatives: Midnight Cowboy and The Fighter
Robert here, with my series Distant Relatives, where we look at two films, (one classic, one modern) related through a common theme and ask what their similarities and differences can tell us about the...
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