(click to enlarge) Some grumblings around the web today on the release of the poster for A Single Man, as a few seem to think the poster wants us to believe the characters played by Colin Firth and Julianne Moore are in bed together. The stills and screenshots from the film show that this pose follows a waltz around the living room in formal attire. Though the patterns...
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Oscar season has a way of sweeping out the old to make way for the new. This is really simply understood as award fatigue, an affliction caught by some as they keep sifting through the same old pile of films. Naturally this would lend itself to the kind of breaking news that may or may not mean something — but it is notable and noticeable because everyone battles...
Reaching out to the various journalists and bloggers who write up the awards race reveals wise minds, and love of cinema. The fact is, this isn’t an actual roundtable – it’s a q&a sent out to various people whose opinions I value. I don’t think any of these writers would be doing what they do if they didn’t love movies. This is really...
Yeah, seems like every time I turn around someone else is emailing me a bad Precious review. I get it, there is already awards fatigue and the films haven’t even opened yet. There is desperation in the air, no doubt about it, and there will continue to be until both shoes drop safely but firmly on the ground.¬† Owen Gleiberman says this about Precious in his grade...
RiskyBusiness says Fox Searchlight may be planning to pull a last minute jackrabbit out of its cowboy hat. Not to be outdone by cringe-inducing labels like the Jewish Precious, Crazy Heart is being called the Country-Western Wrestler. After the lukewarm response to one-time hopeful “Amelia” (not to mention boxoffice doldrums for young-skewing comedies “Whip...
Movieline Magazine and sponsor Hamilton Watches honor the following filmmakers on November 8: Kathryn Bigelow, True Grit Director, The Hurt Locker, presented by Bill Paxton Lawrence Bender, Super Producer, Inglourious Basterds, by Diane Kruger Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, 500 Days of Summer, by Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt John Mhyre, Production...
