THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Young Adult”
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Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”
MELANCHOLIA – Watch It At Home – The Title Tells the Tale Here’s a quick primer in Oscar rules and how studios can get around them. In order for a film to be Oscar-eligible (other than i...
Oscar Major Category Odds: Less Than a Week to Go
Following up on Mitch Salem’s Best Picture overview, here’s an updated look at the odds for the major Oscar categories. After its winning streak at the various guild award ceremonies, Argo has traded places with L...
THE STATUETTE STAKES: Brett Ratner’s Really Bad Week
> Nobody remembers the comic strip “L’il Abner” anymore, but there used to be a character in it named Joe Btfspik, who was so unlucky that he walked around with a perpetual dark cloud hanging over his head.&nb...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”
THE MASTER: Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers. So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...
OSCARLAND: Producers Guild Nominations
The calendar has turned to 2014, and the critics, for the most part, have spoken. Now Oscar season is moving into the Guild part of its schedule, and today the Producers Guild announced its Best Picture nominees. The...
The Sked: ACADEMY AWARDS Telecast Ratings Prediction
>Tonight’s Academy Awards telecast on ABC should be short on suspense as The Artist sweeps to victory in the Best Picture and Best Director categories. (See our Oscar Odds for more.) While there is a race for ...
OSCARBALL: The Golden Globe Nominations
Another day, another set of nominees. The Golden Globes, of course, whose nominees in full can be found here, have become their own thing, even though as an organization the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has no mor...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Moneyball”
Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball was a marvelous read, but seemed like dim source material for a movie. Credit, then, is due to the creators of the film version–the various producers, screenwriters Steven Zailia...
OSCARS MINUS 5: The Sure Thing That Is, and The One That Isn’t
The voting has just closed for this year’s Academy Awards, and here at Oscar Central, we are ready to make the following call: Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the Best Actor Oscar for Lincoln. I know, way out on a...
STATUETTE STAKES: Murphy’s Law
> And the hits keep on coming for the Academy: following Brett Ratner’s hurried exit yesterday, Eddie Murphy has packed his host bag and left the building as well. This isn’t a huge surprise, as Murphy w...
UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Silver Linings Playbook” & “Seven Psychopaths” Take the Prizes
It’s a very good weekend to be a Weinstein. First Weinstein Company’s The Master set new per-theatre records for a live-action movie release without a stage show, and now the tidings from Toronto are lined ...
OSCARLAND: The BAFTAs
Although there were some new faces due to release patterns and category differences, in the big picture, the BAFTAs–Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars–turned out to be very much like the Golden Globes.�...
SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: THE WINNERS
> It’s a measure of how desperately this year’s Oscar needed some kind of surprise that the closest thing to a thrill all evening was Meryl Streep’s win as Best Actress. Streep has been winning Academy A...