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The Oscars: The ‘Least Worst’ Formula
Throughout the first half of February, the Sound On Sight staff will take a look at the Academy Awards. With the biggest night of the cinematic year coming up on the 26th February, the nominations are all set and confirmed, and the potential recipients are on a presidential-like campaign trail which is one part professional […] More
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Why Can’t An Oscar-Winner Look More Like A Hit?
Throughout the first half of February, the Sound On Sight staff will take a look at the Academy Awards. Whether one of the major studios takes the top prize at the Academy Awards or not, they have no squawk this year. Several years ago, as you might recall, the Big Guys were getting fed up […] More
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Oscars 2012: Best Picture Nominees – Alternate Movie Posters by Neven Udovičić
This Sunday, The Academy Of Motion Arts and Sciences will hold their yearly ceremony and hand out those highly desirable golden statuettes. In anticipation of the event, Artist Neven Udovičić created these nine posters for this year’s Best Picture nominees. The logo designs were limited in color schemes and typefaces. Let us know what you […] More
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Academy Mistakes: ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ for Art Direction
Throughout the first half of February, the Sound On Sight staff will take a look at the Academy Awards. Rather than write about any of the Academy’s many Best Picture mistakes, or any decisions that I wasn’t alive for and was thus ignorant of the huge amount of extenuating context surrounding any such decision, I’ll […] More
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The Nominations Are In: Here Are The Biggest Snubs and Ricky D’s Oscar Predictions
Its that time of the year again in when everyone prepares their Oscar predictions, because let’s be honest for a moment – the best part of the Oscars is placing your bets on who’ll win and hopefully walking away from a long and usually boring ceremony with some extra cash in your pocket. This morning […] More
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Movie Lovers Podcast Episode #1 – ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’, ‘War Horse’ and Best of 2011
Welcome to the first episode of the Movie Lovers Podcast. Official podcast of FilmsWeWatched. Movie Lovers Podcast is a film podcast by a couple so out of their gourd about film, they were clearly meant for each other. Highlighting older release first-time watches as well as new theatricals, the podcast covers anything movies. Are you […] More
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2011 Box Office: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again
Want a prediction for 2012 at the movies? It’s going to look a lot like 2011. An awful lot. It’s going to be a case of, If ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Well, actually, the creative machinery in Hollywood is broke, but, as the numbers show, not broken enough to warrant fixing. So. Next year, […] More
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ and ‘War Horse’
He’s probably the most consistently popular filmmaker in history, as well as one of the most divisive – and he’s also got two new movies out this Christmas. Steven Spielberg’s patented blend of awed faces, childlike wonder, and daddy issues come roaring back to the big screen for the first time since Indiana Jones and […] More
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Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’ emotionally wrenching and utterly heartbreaking
War Horse Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis based on the novel War Horse by Michael Morpurgo imdb, USA, 2011 There is an old Hollywood saying sometimes referred to as Bluestone’s Law that “Bad Books make Good Movies”. What film critic George Bluestone actually wrote in his book Novels Into Films was: […] More
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John Williams Scores Again
John Williams is one of the established masters of the art of film scoring. Along with the recent releases of Tintin and War Horse, some of his older scores, including Midway and 1941, have received recent digital releases. The combined listening experience is a lesson in itself: here’s how to write nuanced music that has […] More
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First Trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s ‘War Horse’
The official trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s big screen adaptation of Michael Morpurgo‘s World War I novel War Horse has finally been released online. The movie follows the journey of a horse named Joey who tired to reunite with a farmer’s son. The film stars Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy […] More
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Official Synopsis for Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’
In the fickle world of cinema, there are very few actor/actresses names you can splash across a billboard to ensure a film’s financial success – there are even fewer directors. Tarantino, George Lucas perhaps and even James Camero, but above them all is Steven Spielberg. As a director, he’s the most successful of all time. […] More