[Update: 7 scores of 100. 89 overall average.] For those of you keeping score at home (you know who you are) Moneyball has so far collected 4 perfect scores of 100 on Metacritic, and only one naysayer (Slate) giving it anything less than a 70. That’s 20 green lights and dim one yellow note of caution. With a current average of 86, this puts Moneyball one point below...
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Stu Van Airsdale has put up his Oscar Index and I was surprised to find he put Michael Fassbender for Shame first when many aren’t even predicting him to be nominated. He also has Meryl Streep in first place, followed by Glenn Close and Viola Davis (doesn’t he read Awards Daily?). For supporting actress he has Octavia Spencer for The Help. But he’s...
It seems to me Manohla Dargis’ argument for being able to separate the work from the dumb things Lars Von Trier said in Cannes about being a Nazi might be more persuasive if she’d left out the part about Roman Polanski. As it is, she buried her own lede because the only really compelling part of her piece is this: All I know is what I see in his movies,...
Ensconced at his new platform under the Hitfix umbrella, In Contention’s Kris Tapley talks with Bennett Miller about the recent history of baseball and the immediate future of filmmaking. In “Moneyball” — a project which had been nearly a decade in the making and had suffered a very public collapse before Miller ever came around to it —...
Press release: Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today issued regulations for how movies and achievements eligible for the 84th Academy Awards may be marketed to Academy members. The most notable change affects screening events that include filmmaker participation. Additional changes address digital delivery of movies to Academy members...