My most anticipated movies of Fall 2013
*********************************************** With autumn set to rear its orange and brown head on Sunday, and the first of my eagerly awaited last quarter-ish movies coming out today, it’s...
View ArticleWhy was “The Fifth Estate” 2013′s worst opening movie?
Why did The Fifth Estate tank so badly? Why was it – so far – the poorest debuting movie opening on at least 1,500 screens in 2013? It made $1.7 million in 1,769 theaters, averaging out to less than...
View ArticleDirectors Guild nominees announced
The Directors Guild of America is the latest movie union to unveil their nominees for the best direction of a feature film from 2013. The lucky five are: Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity Paul Greengrass...
View ArticleThe BAFTAs are coming! British Academy announces film award nominees
Another day, another set of movie award nominations. Today it’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA, making their picks known. Gravity is out in front with 11 nominations,...
View ArticleGolden Globes movie predictions: who will win and who should?
Forget talking about love (or writing about music); handicapping the Golden Globe Awards is truly like dancing about architecture. What’s the point, really? Even in their theoretically more respectable...
View ArticleWhat’s your Best Picture pick?
Even in a movie year where best picture awards and predictions seem to be pinballing all across the playing field, clear frontrunners for the Oscar always become evident – or in some years maybe three....
View ArticleWatch 30 years of Tom Hanks movies in 400 seconds
If you missed the debut of new host James Corden on last night’s The Late Late Show, you missed the sketch he performed with first-ever guest Tom Hanks (along with Mila Kunis): Every Tom Hanks Movie in...
View ArticleWhy is ‘America’s most beloved actor’ hated by the Academy?
Perhaps bemoaning the fate of a rich, famous, successful, entitled white man is not the way to go in this time of #TimesUp and #MeToo, but what does Tom Hanks need to do to land some Oscar love? It was...
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