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Quick Oscar Recap
I am usually very critical of award shows for a number of reasons. For the most part, they don’t seem to get anything right (the wrong winners, hosts, and presentation are all part of the problem). Yet the Oscars usually finds its way in the end. The foundation may have been incredibly shaky but it showed why it remains the top award cerrmony in the American film industry.
84th Academy Awards (Oscars) Nominations
The 84th Oscar nominees were announced this morning. While there weren’t that many surprises (Hugo and The Artist have almost a billion nominations each), there were some shockers in the bunch (The Adventures of Tintin was not nominated for Best Animated Feature).
I’ll be offering some commentary on the nominations during the Weekly Movie Podcast tonight as well as looking at the Golden Globe winners from last week and the BAFTA nominations which also were announced a couple of days ago. There will also be an in-depth look into the Academy Awards nominations and the Golden Globes winners this Friday in the Weekly Movie Newsletter (along with reviews of many of the films nominated for both sets of awards).
Click more to see the nominees for the 84th Academy Awards.
69th Annual Golden Globes Live Blog
10:58 – YAY! It’s over! The Weekly Movie Newsletter will be up on Monday night and there will be a Movie Podcast up on Tuesday recapping the entire show.
10:57 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Ten
10:55 – Keep in mind that I really liked The Descendants, I think this was junk. There were two films that were better.
WINNER: The Descendants Best Picture – Drama
10:49 – I see we’re rewarding mediocrity. I like George Clooney but I don’t think this was even close to his best work. However, considering how this night has been, I just have to shrug my shoulders.
WINNER: George Clooney (The Descendants) Best Actor – Drama
Weekly Movie Post–January 15, 2012
Weekly Movie Podcast – January 15th, 2012 <37 mins – 25.3MB>
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The 2012 Golden Globes page is now up.
Golden Globes talk and predictions…listen now and see how awesome my predictions are.
Continue reading for the top five charts from last week’s box office (all data coming from www.the-numbers.com). There’s also a list of all the movies coming out this weekend in theatres and the movies that were released for the home video market this week (with trailers where available).
Weekly Movie Post–January 3, 2012
Weekly Movie Podcast – January 3rd, 2012 <16 mins – 11.1MB>
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The box office saw a nice bump from the previous week despite there being no new movies (in wide release) released in theatres this past weekend. Plenty of discussion on this week’s podcast about the state of the movie industry, some movie recommendations and reviews, and a recap of what’s your options are in theatres and on DVD this coming week.
Continue reading for the top five charts from last week’s box office (all data coming from www.the-numbers.com). There’s also a list of all the movies coming out this weekend in theatres and the movies that were released for the home video market this week (with trailers where available).
Salt (Movie Review)
Movie Review Sometimes action movies can get away with having little substance and tons of style. If lots of things blow up and there’s violence to be had, depending on how it’s delivered, that’s all that might be necessary for an action movie. That would be fine for Salt but Phillip Noyce tried to make this movie into a serious film. It’s doesn’t work that well as a movie you have to think is somewhat believable. If you could sit back and think this was mindless fun then it would be one thing, but it tries to be a Tom Clancy novel; it just doesn’t work.
Salt
2010
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
The Descendants (Movie Review)
Movie Review
The Descendants
2011
Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges
Directed by: Alexander Payne
George Clooney has the distinguishable quality of being able to make even bad film watchable. There are few actors who can pull this off (Julia Roberts comes to mind). The Descendants (directed by Alexander Payne) has a good story but some weak pacing and some awkward moments that prevent it from becoming a classic. However, Clooney and the rest of the cast take what would have otherwise been a better-than-mediocre movie and make it something that becomes necessary watching.
Weekly Movie Post–December 27, 2011
Weekly Movie Podcast – December 27th, 2011 <16 mins – 11.2MB>
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No, this is not a dream. This is a podcast on this site that has actually gone up on time. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. There has been several podcasts (and a newsletter) to be published on the site over the last week and it should get busier on the site once we get into the new year. This podcast was slightly longer than I expected because I went into quite a bit of detail over the numbers from last weekend and try to explain why they were so poor considering that the holiday weekend traditionally is very busy for the theatres.
Continue reading for the top five charts from last week’s box office (all data coming from www.the-numbers.com). There’s also a list of all the movies coming out this weekend in theatres and the movies that were released for the home video market this week (with trailers where available).
Weekly Movie Post–December 24, 2011
Weekly Movie Podcast – December 24th, 2011 <9 mins – 6.0MB>
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The podcast is much shorter than normal (and late). I was really sick this past week (I’m still feeling slightly better than miserable). I had originally recorded almost 40 minutes but much of it was nonsensical rambling, coughing, and blowing my nose. I was able to piece together the normal segments of the show (box-office figures and movie releases). I wanted to make sure that I published this podcast in some form so even though it’s small, it’s still pretty good all things considering.
Continue reading for the top five charts from last week’s box office (all data coming from www.the-numbers.com). There’s also a list of all the movies coming out this weekend in theatres and the movies that were released for the home video market this week (with trailers where available).
