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Brand New Trailer for Truth
The Yahoo exclusive trailer at last. Shaping the trailer and narrative is proving somewhat difficult for Sony because the same journa...
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Brooklyn and Truth Headed for the Savannah Film Fest Oct. 24
The Savannah Film Fest is really coming up in the realm of festivals, alongside the Hamptons Film Fest, the Denver Film Fest, the Mid...
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Wall Street Dramedy The Big Short to Premiere at AFI Fest
Variety’s Kris Tapley tweeted the story this morning that The Big Short will premiere at AFI. The Paramount pic will enter the ...
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The State of the Race: Limited Opportunities for Black Women Make the Oscars Less Relevant
The Emmys made the historic, unprecedented move of awarding the well deserving Viola Davis the first black actress to win in lead in ...
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Best Actress: Brie Larson Takes on Cate Blanchett, Strongest Contenders so Far to Win
Cate Blanchett began the year, along with her co-star Rooney Mara, as the strongest contender for Best Actress in Todd Haynes’ ...
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Room Takes the Audience Award at Toronto, Launching it Into Best Picture Race
It was a bit of a surprise that Lenny Abrahamson’s tearjerker, Room, took the audience prize at Toronto. Then again, it did rec...
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Friday Preliminary Oscar Predictions and Welcome to Oscar Season 2016
How do I think the year is shaping up so far? We have two big influential festivals left — the New York Film Fest (beginning ne...
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First Hit Piece of Awards Season is an Inside Job
The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg has been busy covering the awards race, the Toronto Film Festival and the Emmys. But he...
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New Bridge of Spies Trailer Ahead of NYFF
Steven Spielberg is one of those directors whose thumbprint is immediately recognizable. Always such beautiful work. Second trailer!
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New Trailer for the Fantastic Steve Jobs
Just hearing Fassbender talking in this trailer makes me want to see this movie again. In fact, the writing is so good it’s the...
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45 Years: Love that’s True, and Love that Isn’t
They asked me how I knew My true love was true I of course replied Something here inside cannot be denied They said “someday yo...
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Kyle Buchanan declares Spotlight frontrunner out of Toronto
Two years ago, Kyle Buchanan saw 12 Years a Slave and declared it the Oscar frontrunner. From that point on, the film mostly had a ta...
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Beasts of No Nation Gets a Poster
And it’s a good one. Can Netflix break into the Oscar game?
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The State of the Race: Still No Best Picture Frontrunner, Follow the Director
Becoming a Best Picture frontrunner means fighting off continual attacks that will either sink it (Boyhood) or fail to sink it (12 Ye...
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What’s the Buzz out of Toronto So Far?
It’s hard to suss out what is real and what isn’t if you’re sitting at home reading the tweets and reviews coming o...
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Beasts of No Nation: Finger on the Trigger
Boy Soldier What a smile! One large lamp for a face, smaller lanterns where skin stretches over bones waiting for muscle, body all an...
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The State of the Race: An Unexpected Masterpiece Hits the Mostly Fixed Game of Oscar
I used to think that the reason there weren’t films like Bonnie and Clyde or Midnight Cowboy or A Clockwork Orange or Taxi Driver or ...
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Steve Jobs: Gods and Monsters
“I’ve looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recall I...
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Carey Mulligan Leads Cast in Sarah Gavron’s Masterful Suffragette
It is an astonishing thing, to know there was a time when women weren’t valued enough to be allowed governance of their own rig...