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Eddie Redmayne plays Lilli in the first trailer for Tom Hooper’s ‘The Danish Girl’
After grabbing Oscar gold last year, Eddie Redmayne looks to be in the thick of the hunt again with his latest role (no, not Jupiter Ascending!) The first trailer for The Danish Girl arrived on Tuesday with Redmayne starring as Danish artist, Einar Wegener, who is one of the first recipients of sexual reassignment surgery […] More
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‘Birdman’ wins 2015 Oscars; Full recap and winners
87 years into the ceremony, the Oscars are still unabashedly about the movies. Host Neil Patrick Harris along with Anna Kendrick performed a whizzbang ode to “moving pictures” in perfect Broadway musical style. And despite the fresh songwriting that seemed to give a nod to last year’s winners for Frozen and “Let it Go”, […] More
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The Hype Cycle – ‘Birdman’ comes out soaring
In an Oscar column in the New York Times several weeks back, A.O. Scott noticed that the Academy loves to champion three different types of narrative: those that affirm the industry’s political values and virtues, those that represent popular success, and those that feel like “auto-cinephilia”. “Three of the last five Best Picture winners were […] More
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‘Jupiter Ascending’ rises to absurd and hilarious heights
That sound you’re hearing is a massive sigh of relief from David Lynch. He no longer holds the dubious distinction of producing the most expensive B-movie in the history of Hollywood. That honor now belongs to The Wachowskis, whose Jupiter Ascending has officially displaced Dune at the top (or bottom) of the heap. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however. Jupiter Ascending not only looks spectacular, it’s a laugh riot. Ridiculous dialogue, hammy performances, and enough mythology to baffle Zeus make this disaster a must-see for all lovers of cheese. More
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‘The Theory of Everything’ or The Theory of Biopics and why they’re all the same
As a humble film critic, one can’t pretend to guess at the theory of everything in respect to the physical forces of the Universe. However, there may be a theory of everything concerning biopics, since, as The Theory of Everything demonstrates, they can’t help but all seem exactly the same. Surely, the uniform execution of tropes in storytelling, production, and acting across disparate movies point to the presence of some law underlying reality. Either that or biopics just make people really, really lazy. More
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‘Jupiter Ascending’, with Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis, gets a new trailer
While Channing Tatum rose to prominence in 2006 with roles in both Step Up and She’s The Man, he has since gone on to work with filmmakers such as Roland Emmerich, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Michael Mann, and Steven Soderbergh. An upcoming feature will see Tatum add to that by working with the Wachowski […] More
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The Hype Cycle: Toronto, Telluride and Venice Oscar buzz (Part 1)
The Hype Cycle is News Editor Brian Welk’s roundup of industry news, reviews and predictions of everything Oscar, boiled down into weekly power rankings of the buzziest and most likely contenders in this year’s awards season. The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award has been one of the most reliable barometers for both Best […] More
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TIFF: Eddie Redmayne is Stephen Hawking in trailer for ‘The Theory of Everything’
Eddie Redmayne and James Marsh could be at the heart of plenty of awards season buzz for their upcoming film The Theory of Everything, a biopic on the college years of Stephen Hawking and his romance with future wife Jane Wilde. Directed by Oscar winning documentarian James Marsh (Man on Wire, Project Nim), Redmayne portrays […] More
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‘Jupiter Ascending’, from the Wachowskis, releases a new trailer
One of the most well-known filmmakers in the science fiction genre are the Wachowski siblings. Primarily recognised for their work on The Matrix and its sequels, Andy and Lana Wachowski have also garnered critical and commercial praise for Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas. Many were excited to learn that the two were working on a […] More
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New ‘Les Misérables’ featurette explains benefits of live singing
Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Misérables has enjoyed immense success in musical form, making the stage to screen adaptation an integral part of any film production of the story. Thus, when The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper chose to tackle the timeless story, his unique approach to the musical aspect had many people’s interest piqued; rather than […] More
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Bar Michelle Williams, ‘My Week with Marilyn’ is full of the one-note
My Week with Marilyn Written by Adrian Hodges Directed by Simon Curtis UK/USA, 2011 My Week with Marilyn’s key strength, and obvious biggest point of interest for most viewers, is Michelle Williams’ turn as Monroe. Williams excels at portraying various facets of Monroe’s star image omnipresent in pop culture, but the quality of the performance […] More