You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk You may be the head of some big TV network You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame You may be living in another country under another name But you’re gonna have to serve somebody –Bob Dylan There is a moment in the documentary Grizzly...
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I think it’s too early to call a winner in the 2012 Oscar race, particularly since FOUR key films have not been seen. Those FOUR are Lincoln, Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained. All three could feasibly be the Million Dollar Baby of this year, sweeping in late and taking it all. There are a few others, too, that should be considered, Flight and...
It must be stipulated that other films may rank slightly higher but they aren’t movies that will be in the Best Picture race. The Master is that movie to finally stir critics, or so it seems right now, in the way no film has since Fincher’s The Social Network. After the Academy “went a different way” the critics were not united, as far as I could...
Once it was announced that the Lincoln trailer would debut on a Google hangout many were perplexed. What IS a google hangout? Well, for most of you it’s probably something fun to do on the net. For me it’s my worst nightmare. Why? I hate video camera conversations. I suspect when the younger generations who use them now get up to my age they will hate them...
According to Steve Pond over at The Wrap, David O. Russell would like his movie to be thought of as an underdog. But that’s not going to happen. According to Anne Thompson, Dave Karger has now joined the list of those calling it a major contender and Steve Pond opens his column this way: David O. Russell may not want to have this announced publicly, but Saturday’s...
Both Indiewire’s Anne Thompson and Jeff Wells have invoked the “O” word with the Silver Linings Playbook in Toronto. The David O. Russell film stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Anne says: #TIFF12 the Oscar race is on: silver linings playbook with a happily smiling harvey behind it will be a major contender across the board. And Jeff says: I...