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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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A Query of Everything: 5 Takeaways from 2015’s Best Original Score Nominees
Why should I care about the Oscars? No, that’s a serious question. Because as much as I hate to admit it, I do. At their very best, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gets it right by tripping and falling into a “Market Irglova & Glen Hansard” here or a “12 minute standing […] More
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Matt Zoller Seitz expands ‘The Wes Anderson Collection’ with ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ edition
Not only is Matt Zoller Seitz’s book The Wes Anderson Collection filled with richly detailed interviews and conversations with the man, the myth, Wes Anderson himself, but it’s also a glorious coffee table book, filled with beautiful illustrations by Max Dalton that bring the essence of Anderson’s movies to life. It’s a must-own for cinephiles. […] More
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Sound On Sight Podcast, #400: Final Episode featuring ‘Inherent Vice’ and the Top 10 Movies of 2014
This is it, folks. After 400(!) episodes, Ricky and Simon decided to wrap up the Sound on Sight podcast. To send it off in style, they take a look back at the very best films of 2014, with some help from a variety of former guest- and co-hosts. Smack dab in the middle, with the […] More
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‘Boyhood’, ‘Grand Budapest’, ‘Transparent’ win big at Golden Globes 2015
Though it feels as though Awards Season has already trudged on for months, the 72nd Annual Golden Globes from Sunday night showed the season has really only just begun. On their long road to the Oscars before nominations are announced this Thursday, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel struck a blow […] More
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Week in Review: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘Star Talk’ podcast coming to late night TV
Larry Wilmore may not be the only African American host in late night television. Neil deGrasse Tyson, noted astrophysicist and the Internet’s favorite person ever behind Benedict Cumberbatch and Patrick Stewart, is reportedly moving his hit podcast Star Talk to the National Geographic Channel, Deadline reports. The show is inspired by NPR’s Car Talk and […] More
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The Hype Cycle: Nominations One Week Away
2015 is finally here and so are the Oscars and actual Awards Season. No more of this speculation and hype machine stuff around movies that haven’t come out yet or guilds that haven’t had their say. Oscar voting ends today, January 8, and nominations are revealed bright and early on January 15, one week from […] More
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50 Best Films of 2014
15. The Immigrant – If one were to rank the films of 2014 based solely on innovation, The Immigrant would probably end up near the bottom. Writer-director James Gray’s languid melodrama tells the tumultuous story of a resilient Polish woman looking to find a slice of the American Dream, without much in the way of […] More
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The 20 Best Film Scores of 2014
It’s been a great year for film music. I say that as someone who had to endure the laughably dated qualities of Alberto Iglesias’ Exodus: Gods and Kings and had to swallow the pill that is Howard Shore‘s latter days Middle-earth music. But it has been a great year. Clint Mansell gave us haunting, complex soundscapes in Noah, the […] More
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Ensemble MVP: The Rebirth of Edward Norton
I’m not sure what exact moment in Birdman it occurred to me that we were in the midst of a great Edward Norton Renaissance. Maybe it was when the walls of self-professed artistic integrity that his character Mike Shiner wears came crashing down in the face of Sam (Emma Stone), revealing the tragedy and isolation […] More
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Watch the Wes Anderson directed ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ trailer
In a week of Star Wars domination on the internet, it looks like another parody of the teaser has hit the web with the joke also going after acclaimed auteur Wes Anderson. The parody, titled “Wes Anderson Presents: Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer,” uses many of the techniques that make Anderson so unique starting […] More
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The Hype Cycle: AFI Fest
As the end of the year approaches, the number of question marks in the Oscar ranks continues to sink lower. This past week, Selma, American Sniper, The Gambler and A Most Violent Year all dropped at AFI Fest, leaving only movies like Unbroken (still presumed to be a front-runner in a crowded field), Exodus: Gods […] More
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