Awards
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The Oscars Need Selma More Than Selma Needs The Oscars
Paramount Pictures A renewed forehead slapping routine has hit the echo chamber of awards season watchdogs because Selma has, once again, come up short on…
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There Are Too Many Movies For Awards to Mean Anything
Paramount Pictures Even though exact data is difficult to pin down, it’s gut-level obvious that there were more movies released last year than in 1928,…
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Required Reading: Oscar Obsession and Robin Williams in ‘World of Warcraft’
Disney The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Release…
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Required Reading: Pranking Francis Ford Coppola and What Went Wrong on ‘Street Fighter’
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Robert Duvall…
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Required Reading: Shaking Off the Stars and Celebrating Heroines
Required Reading: Shaking Off the Stars and Celebrating Heroines The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just…
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What Should Have Won Best Picture For the Past 30 Years
After all the handwringing and concern, this year’s Oscars were reasonably even-handed. After all, the directors for Adaptation, Shame and Children of Men all got…
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Required Reading: The Oscar Verdict and Wes Anderson’s Family Values
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Four Lessons…
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Oscars’ Always-Contentious In Memoriam Segment Almost Nailed It, Until It Didn’t
It’s a long-established fact that the annual Oscars “In Memoriam” segment will not make everyone happy – in fact, it won’t even come close to…
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Upstaged Leading Man
Another year, another Oscar ceremony in the books. Once the booze wears off from Matthew McConaughey’s final “Alright, alright, alright,” of our year in film,…