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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 Movies, Part 1
It’s no exaggeration to say I watched more movies this decade than in the previous two combined, so settling on this list was pretty grueling. But I narrowed it down to 50 movies that meant a lot to me. That … Continue reading
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Tagged 1917, 20th century women, about time, amazon, annihilation, apollo 11, arrival, blindspotting, boyhood, call me by your name, carol, certified copy, cloud atlas, drive, dunkirk, favourite, first man, first reformed, get out, going clear, grand budapest hotel, handmaiden, hbo, her, inside out, intouchables, prime
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Streaming Picks: July 2018
FILMS Top Picks The Brothers Bloom – Amazon and Hulu 7/1 Go – Hulu 7/1 Her – Netflix 7/29 You might have heard Rian Johnson’s name in the last six months. As the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Previews, Television
Tagged 20 weeks, along with the gods, amazing interiors, americans, anne with an e, ballet now, before we vanish, better things, black cop, bleeding edge, blue bloods, bonusfamiljen, borg vs mcenroe, brothers bloom, burn notice, captain underpants, castle rock, casual, closer, closing gambit, comedians in cars getting coffee, comedy lineup, cover versions, cupcake and dino, damages, dark tourist, deep undercover, drag lords, duck duck goose, el chapo, extinction, father of the year, first team, forgiven, fosters, free rein, glass castle, go, good witch, hawaii five-o, heart of nuba, her, home, how it ends, how to talk to girls at parties, iliza shlesinger, inconvenient sequel, inside the world's toughest prisons, jim jefferies, jimmy, joel mchale, last chance u, last ship, le ride, leaning into the wind, legacy of a whitetail deer hunter, librarians, lost wife of robert durst, luna petunia, madam secretary, ncis, nypd blue, orange is the new black, oscar pistorius, queens of comedy, rica famosa latina, roman empire, sacred games, samantha, shameless, sharp edges, sinner, skin of the wolf, sofia the first, somebody feed phil, status update, sugar rush, terrace house, tumble leaf, unreal, very secret service, wanderland, warning, welcome to the family, white fang, winter out west, worst witch, you're the worst, zombie spring breakers
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Best of the Decade… So Far – Film
It’s hard to believe the decade is half gone already. In these five years, I’ve graduated from college, moved back in with my parents, struck out on my own, and gotten married. And I’ve consumed a ridiculous amount of pop … Continue reading
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Tagged 50/50, about time, before midnight, beginners, boyhood, cloud atlas, drive, grand budapest hotel, gravity, her, hugo, inception, intouchables, looper, scott pilgrim, silver linings playbook, social network, toy story 3, tree of life, true grit
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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 Best Films
It took me a long time to get to it, but I’ve finally narrowed down my top 10 films of the year. There was plenty I never got to see, thanks to a schedule where almost everything great came out … Continue reading
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Tagged about time, american hustle, angels share, before midnight, captain phillips, catching fire, frances ha, gravity, her, hunger games, kings of summer, monsters university, prisoners, rush, side effects, spectacular now, terms and conditions may apply, trance, upstream color, way way back, world's end
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Reactionary Tale: Oscar Nominations 2014
I did better than I thought I would have in terms of predictions. There will always be surprises, but there were more bad than good. Read on for my reactions. Biggest Snubs (in order from most to least egregious) 1. … Continue reading
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Tagged blackfish, blue umbrella, butler, captain phillips, catching fire, dirty wars, frances ha, great gatsby, her, hunger games, long walk to freedom, mandela, monsters university, pacific rim, prisoners, rush, spectacular now
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The Weekender: All About ‘Her’
IN THEATERS: The Legend of Hercules (PG-13) Starring Kellan Lutz, Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins Written by Daniel Giat, Renny Harlin, Sean Hood, Giulio Steve Directed by Renny Harlin Tell me why we need another Hercules movie, preceding this summer’s version … Continue reading
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Tagged august, august: osage county, her, kellan lutz, legend of hercules, lone survivor, mark wahlberg, meryl streep, scarlett johansson
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