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The Bipolar Silver Linings Playbook
Hey lovelies. Beau here with a recent trip to the David O. Russell multiverse, which has gotten tamer than I once remembered it. I understood Pat Solitano, Jr. and Sr., their individual and...
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First & Last: What'll I Do?
the first and last image from a motion picture (after the title sequence and before the end credits scroll) Another clue?The opening title sequence is underscored by the standard "What'll I Do?"And...
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Swag Watch: Lincoln Cooks, Brave Looks
Two yummy gifts arrived, courtesy no doubt of my BFCA membership. But I always pretend the gifts are bribes (don't judge) since I am CLOTHED IN IMMENSE POWERS OF FOR YOUR CONSIDERATIONING. I thought...
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THR Actress Roundtable - Part 1
Live Blogged via Tape Delay! Woot I've embedded the whole hour at the bottom of this post. Please to enjoy. 00:01 Photoshoots. We begin with a lot of hand to throat or chest or hair gesturing. And......
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THR Actress Roundtable Final Thoughts
But what she really wants to do is laughSee Part One for the full video and commentary on first half hour The Hollywood Reporter's Actress Roundtable has become an event I impatiently await more than...
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Happy Thanksgiving !
I hope your dinner is/was marvelous and the hugs plentiful. Thank you all for reading, donating, sharing, and commenting faithfully over the years! This cartoon from the latest New Yorker made me lol....
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Thanksgiving Linkovers
Good afternoon! I only had one piece of pumpkin pie last night so it absolutely cannot be counted as an unqualified success of a Thanksgiving. So, desperate for leftovers (I wasn't even sent home with...
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Are You Excited For "Bates Motel" or "Hannibal"?
Alfred Hitchcock is getting as much attention this year as 007, what with Vertigo topping the Sight & Sound poll and the new Hitchcock biopic that references Hitchcockian mythology from 1958...
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I Dreamed a Dream That The Film Version of Les Miz Would Be Awesome.
It came true. Tom Hooper, looking very confident, took the stage at Alice Tully this afternoon to welcome everyone to the screening with a Happy Thanksgiving and a confession that he had finished the...
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Golden Horse Wins
Today's Golden Horse Awards, the Chinese-Taiwanese Oscars, spread the wealth. Superstar Andy Lau (A Simple Life, Infernal Affairs, House of the Flying Daggers) had the honor of presenting Best Picture....
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An hour long conversation about his divisive movie. Sometimes you have to hear it from the filmmaker's mouth. Somewhat off topic now... Occasionally with the great filmmakers it feels unseemly to bring...
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The Perks of Being Anna Karenina's Guardian
By the end of each and every November I am buried in piles and piles of screeners in addition to screening invites each night (I'm not complaining) that all arrive within the same two week period (I am...
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Best Actor Battles and Hugh Jackman's Oscar Obstacle
Though most of my Oscar prediction chart updates have to wait for today's screening of Zero Dark Thirty (eeeeeeee! Bring it, Bigelow) it was safe to go ahead and revamp the Best Actor chart since...
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Secret Messages: The 26th
secret messages from the movies Can you guess the movie? What's going on here?
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For Your Consideration: The William Hurt Honor
Moi? Dear Nathaniel, In lieu of gifts this holiday season, I wanted to campaign for the inclusion of a new category in the Film Bitch Awards called: The William Hurt Honor. For those scene-stealers...
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Review: "Hitchcock"
This review was originally published in my column at Towleroad The first thing HITCHCOCK gets right about Hitchcock is the humor. Director Sacha Gervasi's serio-comic adaptation of the book "Alfred...
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Gotham Awards Winners
You inspire him"-Amy Adams to Joaquin Phoenix in The Master Did The Gotham Awards inspire more faith in the possibly fadingg Oscar prospects of The Master? They did not. The following films competed...
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Box Office Bounty For Thanksgiving
Buoyed by Twilight & 007 fanaticism, an abundance of newish Oscar contenders, and even a dusty remake for the crowd that doesn't care about Twilight or the Oscars or, you know, quality, there was...
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Curio: Big on Bigelow
Alexa here. Kathryn Bigelow turns 61 today (really?), and she is just all kinds of awesome, no? Determined and intelligent while blowing past all considerations of gender, she makes films with...
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