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‘A Single Shot’ a fine showcase for Sam Rockwell, but not much else

Sam Rockwell’s secret weapon is not his gift of gab, but his ability to use that chatty nature to disarm everyone around him. Rockwell, so rakish and charming in this summer’s indie hit The Way, Way Back, isn’t the kind of actor who can’t play taciturn, but deliberately robbing him of his quirky, squirrelly speech patterns is always a bit of a letdown.

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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Oscars (part 2)

I will leave the discussion of what/who won/didn’t win and why/why not to others.  I have only one concern:  Did it work? For the now befuddled, let me recap what I laid out back in January when the 2011 Academy Award nominations were announced: A year earlier, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences …

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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Oscars… but the major studios aren’t laughing

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was not, originally, in the award-awarding business.  In fact, the Academy (founded by some of the early Hollywood moguls i.e. Louis Mayer, Douglas Fairbanks, and Jack Warner, among others) didn’t get around to handing out the little gold men until 1929 — two years after AMPAS’ creation. …

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83rd Academy Awards Nominations: The Academy Hates Christopher Nolan

In what has to be a shocking development, Christopher Nolan was snubbed in the Best Director category for his brilliant work on Inception.  This is the second time that Christopher Nolan has gotten snubbed.  I wonder what he has to do to get nominated.  Inception still made it into the ten along with 127 Hours, …

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Best Films of 2010 – part 3

#10 – Let Me In Directed by Matt Reeves Based on the best-selling Swedish novel “Let The Right One In” by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and the highly-acclaimed film of the same name, Let Me In is a haunting, provocative thriller and in many ways is better than the original. While originally pegged as their own …

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Oscar Prospects for ‘Winter’s Bone’ Heat Up With Gotham Awards Best Feature Win

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced today the winners at the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards ceremony in New York City’s Cipriani Wall Street. The acclaimed indie drama Winter’s Bone which was nominated for a total of four awards, was the big winner taking home …

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