If the imaginary Oscars were held today, that is, if everything went as it’s expected to go, the Best Director category would look something like this: Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty Tom Hooper, Les Miz Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern...
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Indiewire’s Tambay Obenson posted a confirmation that Adepero Oduye will play Eliza and Storm Reid will play her daughter Emily in Steve McQueen’s next film, Twelve Years a Slave, which also stars Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejifor and Quvenzhané Wallis. If you’re keeping up with our book club, you will be reading about this era, just before...
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, continuing their ongoing bombardment of the Obama administration (wasting endless amounts of time and money doing so), sued the CIA and the Department of Defense to force them into showing how much access was provided to Kathryn Bigelow and Marc Boal for their upcoming film about Osama Bin Laden. Trust me, my friends, if...
Nelson Carvajal puts together a wonderful video essay of the astonishing work of Christopher Nolan. I’m going to start the 2012/2013 Oscar year with this familiar lament. Really, Academy? Not a single Oscar nomination for Best Director? When director Christopher Nolan first conceived of his Batman film trilogy, the challenge was revitalizing a hero who had previously...
Guest essay by Colin Biggs For the most part, the works of Christopher Nolan have been brushed off as nothing more than “elite popcorn”. Upon further inspection nothing could be further from the truth. While Nolan’s filmography has often been entertaining, it is not without its complexities. His first feature-length film involved the tale of a man who...
