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Oscar Re-Do 2013
BEST PICTURE12 Years a SlaveAmerican HustleCaptain PhillipsDallas Buyers ClubGravityHerNebraskaPhilomenaThe Wolf of Wall Street Should have won: No complaints hereNot even nominated: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 12 Years a Slave won Best Picture, is the most recent movie inducted into … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 years a slave, before midnight, blue jasmine, captain phillips, gravity, her, hunt, wolf of wall street
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2010s in Review: The Best Film Performances, Part 1
This was a nearly impossible task, picking between lead and supporting turns, comedic and dramatic. But here are my top 5 male and female performances of the decade. MEN Moonlight – Mahershala Ali The platonic ideal of a supporting performance, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 years a slave, beginners, burning, christine, flight, gone girl, if beale street could talk, moonlight, phoenix, whiplash
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Oscar Guide 2014
And that’ll do it. While many races are close, I feel very confident in these picks, more than I ever have before. I would, however, love to be wrong on some of these predictions. BEST PICTURE 12 Years a Slave … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 years a slave, 20 feet from stardom, act of killing, all is lost, american hustle, august, august: osage county, bad grandpa, before midnight, blue jasmine, book thief, broken circle breakdown, captain phillips, croods, cutie and the boxer, dallas buyers club, desolation of smaug, despicable me 2, dirty wars, ernest and celestine, frozen, grandmaster, gravity, great beauty, great gatsby, her, hobbit, hunt, inside llewyn davis, invisible woman, iron man 3, jackass, lone ranger, lone survivor, long walk to freedom, mandela, missing picture, nebraska, omar, philomena, prisoners, saving mr banks, square, star trek into darkness, wind rises, wolf of wall street
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My Dream Oscar Ballot 2014
I’ll stick with the Academy’s format for this, which means I have to refrain from listing Best Animated Feature, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Documentary Feature. I simply didn’t see enough films to fill up those categories. I’m skipping … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 years a slave, about time, american hustle, before midnight, butler, captain phillips, catching fire, dallas buyers club, desolation of smaug, despicable me 2, elysium, fruit vale station, gravity, her, hobbit, hunger games, iron man 3, kings of summer, long walk to freedom, mandela, monsters university, pacific rim, post tenebras lux, prisoners, rush, side effects, spectacular now, star trek into darkness, trance, way way back, wolf of wall street, world's end
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2013 in Review: The Worst Films + Special Awards
As many wonderful films as I saw in 2013, there were plenty of terrible films, too. In something of a shock, more of these atrocities came from independent distributors. Just goes to show that greatness and dreck can come from … Continue reading
Oscar Picks: 15 Dec 2013
BEST PICTURE 12 Years a Slave American Hustle August: Osage County The Butler Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Inside Llewyn Davis Nebraska Falling off: Saving Mr. Banks Rising star: Philomena The skinny: While Banks is still firmly in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 years a slave, american hustle, august, august: osage county, before midnight, blue jasmine, butler, captain phillips, croods, dallas buyers club, enough said, epic, frozen, gravity, her, inside llewyn davis, monsters university, nebraska, philomena, rush, saving mr banks, wind rises, wolf of wall street
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Oscar Picks – 1 December 2013
BEST PICTURE 12 Years a Slave American Hustle August: Osage County The Butler Captain Phillips Gravity Inside Llewyn Davis Nebraska Saving Mr. Banks Falling off: Fruitvale Station, The Wolf of Wall Street Rising star, still: Dallas Buyers Club The skinny: … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 years a slave, all is lost, american hustle, august, august: osage county, blue jasmine, butler, captain phillips, croods, dallas buyers club, epic, frozen, fruitvale station, gravity, her, inside llewyn davis, monsters university, nebraska, philomena, saving mr banks, wind rises
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Oscar Picks – 15 November 2013
BEST PICTURE 12 Years a Slave American Hustle August: Osage County Captain Phillips Fruitvale Station Gravity Inside Llewyn Davis Saving Mr. Banks The Wolf of Wall Street Falling off: The Monuments Men Rising star: Dallas Buyers Club The skinny: We’re … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 years a slave, all is lost, american hustle, august, august: osage county, blue jasmine, butler, captain phillips, dallas buyers club, epic, ernest and celestine, frozen, fruitvale station, gravity, her, inside llewyn davis, monsters university, philomena, rush, saving mr banks, wind rises, wolf of wall street
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The Weekender: ‘Slave’ to rhythm
IN THEATERS: The Counselor (R) Starring Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem Written by Cormac McCarthy Directed by Ridley Scott I could not have anticipated this movie more earlier this year, but the buzz has ranged from good-not-great to WTF. … Continue reading