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Everybody’s Talkin’ 12 – 17 (Chatter From Other Bloggers)
First things first – any Toronto folk who are looking for a dose of filmgoing fa-la-la-la-la, The Bloor will be showing IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE this coming Wednesday at 7pm. Lindsay and I will be there (as is our annual custom). If you feel like joining us, the more the merrier! I have bits and…
Fight For Your Right (SAG Award Nominees Announced)
For a moment or two this week, I thought about doing my annual post about how The Golden Globes are a party thrown by a gaggle of star-obsessed idiots…but looking back through similar posts in years past, I feel like I’ve made that point quite clear. If you really want to know my stance, take…
Life Itself (THE TREE OF LIFE Trailer)
Wow.
Just wow!!
Sea Legs (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Trailer)
So a funny thing happened on the way to the quadrilogy – the third movie turned out terrible. Tremendously terrible. After a disappointing middle chapter, the PIRATES film needed a wallop of a third act and instead gave us a gentle nudge. The series seemed lost…wrecked at sea…devoured by that maelstrom…never to be heard from…
Running Scared
Those critters seem pretty harmless, wouldn’t you say? Well for one young boy, they were the source of cinematic trauma. Last week, when I spoke with Douglas Trumbull, I started the conversation off with one of my five questions. I broke the ice with Mr. Trumbull by asking him if he could recall his first…
Clearer View (LA Critic Awards, AFI Awards, Broadcast Film Critic Award Nominees Announced)
Another day, another round of awards, another instance where THE SOCIAL NETWORK seems like the monster to beat. Yesterday, The L.A. Film Critics announced their year-end awards. It appeared to be business-as-usual with THE SOCIAL NETWORK taking the top prize as best picture. It likewise landed David Fincher an award for best director, an honour…