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Dinosaurs & Toys: New Posters!
Manuel here bringing you a double dose of dino-related posters. Jurassic Park and Toy Story, two seminal early 90s smashes continue to make waves in 2014. This shouldn't be so surprising seeing as...
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Baz, Rocky, Sarandon and Me
Editor's Note: Faithful reader and frequent Best Shot participant Derreck (see his tumblr here) attended a special film event that we desperately wanted to make it to last week, a screening of "The...
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Thought I Had... While Staring at the American Sniper Poster
Careful where you point that thing, Bradley.
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A Year with Kate: Rooster Cogburn (1975)
Episode 42 of 52: In which Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne star in The African Queen 2: This Time it's a Western! Growing old in Hollywood sucks. To borrow a line from Goldie Hawn, “There are only...
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Neil Patrick Harris Will Host the Oscars & Complete His Life
SPOILERS TO GONE GIRL BELOW Do you want to know what is so weird? I literally just returned from a second screening of Gone Girl. I turn on twitter and I see Neil Patrick Harris's name everywhere. So...
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Foreign Oscar Watch: Gett - The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Though TIFF & NYFF are over, London and Chicago Fests are still raging. We will have a few reports from each to cover more Oscar Submissions for Best Foreign Language Film. Here's our London friend...
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No More Movies for John Cleese
Margaret here to break it to you that British comedy icon John Cleese is done with the movies. So he claimed, anyway, at a promotional appearance for his new memoir, So Anyway..., at the Cheltenham...
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Interview: Jorge Gutierrez & Guillermo del Toro on "The Book of Life"
Jorge Gutierrez has won two Annie awards and an Emmy, but in order to get his passion project The Book Of Life (which opens tonight!) onto the screen, he needed a little help. Gutierrez found it in...
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Open Thread. Multiple Screenings?
Have you seen any movie, at home or in theaters, more than once this calendar year? I was looking over my Letterboxd account and realizing how useful it would be to track my viewing if I actually...
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AHS: Freakshow "Massacres & Matinees"
The freaks come out at night. The freaks come out at night. Well, except when there's a curfew in which case they'll do matinees. In Freakshow's second episode, the police have locked down the town at...
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CIFF Foreign Film Oscar Report, Vol. 1: Afghanistan, Italy & Switzerland
Tim here. A week ago today, two things happened: the Academy announced the complete list of submissions for the Best Foreign Language Film race, and the 50th Chicago International Film Festival opened....
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What I have linked, I have linked.
Popwatch Julianne Moore tribute coming in January at the Museum of the Moving Image - let the coronation mark beginIn Contention Pedro Pascal for Ben-Hur and portrayals of Pontius Pilate on the...
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Posterized: Naomi Watts
It's good to be Naomi Watts right now which is something of a surprise since last year it wasn't. But then the blonde Aussie's career has always been like that. Let's investigate. Naomi Watts...
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Review: St. Vincent
Here's Michael's weekend review of St. Vincent, currently expanding to more theaters... There is a moment in Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent where it looks like the film might deviate from the...
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How To Get Away With Turning Your Procedural TV Into Gay Porn.
I was going to quit How To Get Away With Murder with this fourth episode but I may have to keep watching from the sheer ridiculousness as well as the fascinating case study of Anything Goes in...
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Birdman's Beating Heart: An Interview with Composer Antonio Sanchez
Birdman, the pitch-black comedy from Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu that recently took the festival circuit by storm, opens in theaters today. Among its most distinctive and arresting features is its...
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Foreign Oscar Watch: White God
With London and Chicago Fests ongoing, a few reports from each to cover more Oscar Submissions for Best Foreign Language Film. Here's our London friend David on Hungary's Oscar submission. Let me start...
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Meet the Contenders: Emma Stone "Birdman"
Each weekend a profile on a just-opened Oscar contender. Here's abstew on this weekend's new release, BIRDMAN which is marvelous as previously noted. Emma Stone as Sam Thomson in Birdman (or The...
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Links: Monty, Misty, Michael, More...
Gurus of Gold The new charts. Yes, I need to update the Oscar charts. I'll get started tomorrow!The Black Maria for his 94th birthday - "Montgomery Clift: The Lost Poet of Omaha"Serpentine Magazine...
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