Thoughts I Had... While Looking at the Nymphomaniac Teaser
A day or two ago I casually linked to the first poster for Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac though this flippant "oh and..." way of dealing with it doesn't do its succinct brilliance justic. So, it gets a...
View ArticleReader Spotlight: Troy Hopper
We're getting to know the Film Experience community with reader spotlights once or twice a week. This may take awhile! Today we're talking to Troy from Maryland. What's your first movie memory? My...
View ArticleInterview: Steve Hoover, Director of Oscar-Buzzing "Blood Brother"
Amir here. When Steve Hoover's debut Blood Brother, won both the audience and jury prizes at this year's Sundance Film Festival, it automatically became one of my most anticipated documentaries of the...
View ArticleThe Only Post You Will Ever Need On The "August: Osage County" Teaser Poster
A clever teaser poster that manages to put the Weston family home first and thus draws a great connective line between the stage production's branding (which always used the house) and the film...
View ArticleA Handful of Link
Tribeca Film Winona Ryder '15 Films ranked in order of how much we wanted to be her'Gold Derby thinks Bette Midler should host the Tonys. Co-sign Cine Memories since we were just talking Double...
View ArticleNew Oscar Predix! (And What Of Consecutive Nomination Heat?)
As I was constructing the new Best Picture charts -- yes, they're finally up. Have a looksie -- it occurred to me that I was foolishly betting against a lot of regular Oscar players. Why couldn't I...
View ArticleEarly Bird Oscar Predix: The Toons
Last year's Animated Oscar race is going to be a tough act to follow. In what was arguably the most competitive race of all 12 years of Oscar's newest category, there was precious little agreement...
View ArticleMay Flowers on their way
Gatsby's waiting on them. Have you – got everything you need?” Perhaps some more flowers…” Do you think it’s too much?” Well, we hope not. I asked Nathaniel to renew May Flowers for another year...
View ArticleHot Docs: LGBT Films
Amir here, reporting from the Hot Docs documentary festival in Toronto. There are a few films at the festival this year that deal with LGBT issues. Paolo has already reviewed one of them – though I’m...
View ArticleReview: Iron Man Three*
This review was originally posted in my column @ Towleroad When last we saw Tony Stark he was eating shawarma in New York City with his fellow superheroes in the stinger of Marvel's The Avengers...
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Vulture whose butts have we seen on Game of Thrones. Funny interactive even if you don't watch the show imgur '50 greatest matte paintings from the movies.' a fine tribute to a lost art now that CGI...
View ArticleHappy Gabby Day
JA from MNPP here, wishing a very happy birthday to Gabourey Sidibe, who's turning 30 years old today. In the four years since she popped on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere, in Lee Daniels' film...
View ArticleHot Docs Wrap-Up: Favorites and Oscar Prediction
Amir here, to wrap up my coverage of the Hot Docs international documentary film festival. The festival is regarded as TIFF’s younger, less glitzy sister here in Toronto but that doesn’t mean there...
View ArticleMonday Monologue: Musings from Queen Eleanor
Andrew here to kick off a theme week dedicated to my favourite movie related person of all time – Katharine Hepburn. Next Sunday is the 106th birthday of Oscar’s most fêted Actress and this week The...
View ArticleCurio: Kate Curiosities
Alexa here kicking off a theme week at TFE, featuring a very special actress. This Sunday I will not only celebrate Mother's Day but also the birthday of the inimitable (well, except by Catherine...
View ArticleTeam Top Ten: Oscar's Greatest Losers (Actress Edition)
Hepburn won 4 Oscars. Every win leaves a trail of four lossesAmir here, to bring you our newest Team Top Ten. You may remember we tackled the best directors of the new century in our first episode and...
View ArticleRemember When...
...Gwyneth Paltrow and Toni Collette were the hot new actresses Hollywood had to cast in everything?
View ArticleI Dreamed of Gatsby
Last night I had the wildest dream (with spoilers). Baz Luhrmann had delivered a Moulin Rouge! remake with vampire characters set in the world of F Scott's Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". No matter...
View ArticleMay Flowers: Liz & Dick
May Flowers blooming daily in the afternoons… Andrew here to start things off. It only makes sense that the melancholic showers of Anna Karenina and The Truman Show would give root to the gloomy...
View ArticleTeam Experience: Great Losers, Actress Edition (Pt. 2)
As long time readers know The Film Experience started out as a one-man show. That man being myself, Nathaniel R. (Remember in Ye Olden Times when posting two goodies a week made you a prolific...
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