Wrestling With Florida
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
As we discovered earlier today with the SAG nominations, the Oscars are all but over, a month before the nominations are announced: Slumdog Millionaire will win. Barring Benjamin Button becoming a huge hit (iffy) with the public when it opens @ Christmas, Slumdog just has too large a constituency to leapfrog. Especially when the other […]
Read More..>>The First Thing I Heard…
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When I woke up to the radio alarm was
…like how big their toolbox is.
Heh. What an odd sentence to wake up too. So why not carry this opening line over into a quiz for you. Can you guess which films these first lines of dialogue are from? Highlight under the quote to see the […]
What’s the last movie you rented?
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And did you like it? Tell all in the comments (while I work on some lengthier future posts)*
Read More..>>Newsbites: The sequels edition!
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1. Two actresses have been cast for the sequel to Tron (1982), and by some strange fluke, both of them — Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett — were in the torture-porn flick Turistas (2006). Wilde will play “a worker in the virtual world who tries to help fight Master Control Program, the villainous intelligence protocol […]
Read More..>>This is awesome.
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Someone had the brilliant idea of taking a section of the trailer for J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie and replacing the visuals with footage from the animated series. I especially like the way the face of Robert April, the first captain of the Enterprise, plays over the voice of Christopher Pike, the second […]
Read More..>>Signatures: Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Adam of Club Silencio here with a look at my favorite actresses and their distinguishing claims to fame.
I’ve no reason to believe Maggie Gyllenhaal got where she is today because of anything other than talent. She’s got a wisdom and savvy well beyond her years and a cool ease on camera. Maggie’s one of the […]
Golden Globe Giggles
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NEW PODCAST
This week’s podcast isn’t an interview, it’s a free for all. Joe of Low Resolution, Nick of Nick’s Flick Picks, Katey of Cinema Blend and myself gab about last week’s mad rush of precursor awards and nominations. Topics blur and slam together, curious cases abound and new ways to honor Clint Eastwood are dreamt […]
What was that?
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You were saying…
Read More..>>For Your Consideration Corner
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Glenn here again for another installment of For Your Consideration Corner. What movies are tapping my brain this week? All images sourced from Awards Daily unless otherwise noted.
Just earlier this week I discussed movies that come out of nowhere at this time of the year with misplaced hopes and dreams of Oscar. So, for this […]
Busy busy busy.
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I spent all day yesterday working on three or four different assignments. And I spent all day today in a movie theatre. (Yes, a single movie theatre; by some fluke, all of the day’s preview screenings were scheduled for the same venue.) Tomorrow I will go back to working on two or […]
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