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Oscars at a Glance: What Films Look to be Early Contenders?
October 12, 2016A lot of people are looking ahead and trying to debate which films are looking forward to Oscar glory that we have nearly four months to wait until the 89th Academy Awards,I have always had a fascination with the competition aspect of the Oscars, yes, but also the celebration of film aspect that so many people […]
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The Godfather
November 4, 2015Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s […]
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Kate Winslet to star as famed muse and photographer Lee Miller
October 14, 2015Kate Winslet will portray the glamorous and fascinating Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller in a yet-to-be titled film produced by Troy Lum and Andrew Mason of Hopscotch Features. Miller, who was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going behind the camera, led an extraordinary life that included time spent as a muse and […]
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Pixels 2015 Review
October 10, 2015Pixels probably started off as a germ of an idea in writer-director Patrick Jean’s head while he was stoned out of his mind and feeling all nostalgic and emotional and yearning to go back to a simpler time: the time of wholesome communities where arcade gaming was the awesomest social hangout. He probably sobered up […]
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Casting Net: Jamie Foxx is voicing an animated street-dancing mouse
October 6, 2015Jamie Foxx dance moves will be unparalleled in his next role. He will be voicing an animated mouse named Biggz in Groove Tails. When he owes cheese to the wrong rodents, he gets caught up in the rat race of competitive street dancing. It will be directed by newcomer Cameron Hood, who’s worked on How […]
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Casting Net: Death Note adaptation nabs Nat Wolff to star
September 30, 2015Nat Wolff (The Fault in Our Stars) is heading up a big American adaptation. The young Paper Towns star is in final talks to lead director Adam Wingard’s take of Death Note. The seminal manga and anime series was made into a 2006 live-action movie in Japan. Wolff will play a teen who discovers a […]
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Casting Net: Kate Winslet, Emma Stone, Olivia Colman in talks for The Favourite
September 25, 2015Kate Winslet, Emma Stone, and Olivia Colman are in talks to star in The Favourite, a historical drama about Britain’s Queen Anne that’s being directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster). Colman would play the queen; Winslet would play her confidant Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; and Stone would play Abigail Masham, the duchess’ upstart cousin. […]
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Toronto Film Review: ‘Women He’s Undressed’
September 16, 2015Courtesy of Hollywood Classics Nothing against production designer Ross Wallace, but if a documentary film needs a production designer at all, it’s a sure sign something’s afoot. Such is the case with “Women He’s Undressed,” the first film in five years from Gillian Armstrong, whose 1979 feature debut, “My Brilliant Career” was a defining moment […]
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Toronto Film Review: ‘Forsaken’
September 16, 2015Courtesy of TIFF If “Forsaken” were any more old-fashioned, lenser Rene Ohashi might have filmed it in black-and-white, scripter Brad Mirman definitely would have trimmed the F-bombs from his dialogue, and the entire enterprise probably would bear the brand of RKO or Republic Pictures. Refreshingly and unabashedly sincere in its embrace of Western conventions and […]
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Spotlight is front-page news, sheds light on ‘true heroes’ who exposed priest abuse
September 15, 2015Hold the presses. After a front-loaded opening weekend of world premieres, the Toronto International Film Festival officially confirmed what Venice and Telluride previously reported: that Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight will be a major awards player this Oscar season. Based on the Boston Globe’s 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning expose about the Catholic Church’s decades-long cover-up of pedophile priests in the […]
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Frank Gilroy, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, dies at 89
September 14, 2015Frank D. Gilroy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director, died Saturday of natural causes, his family confirmed. He was 89. Gilroy wrote the 1964 play The Subject Was Roses, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He also adapted the work for a 1968 film version that […]
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Frank Gilroy, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter, dies at 89
September 14, 2015Frank D. Gilroy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director, died Saturday of natural causes, his family confirmed. He was 89. Gilroy wrote the 1964 play The Subject was Roses, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He also adapted the work for a 1968 film version that […]
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