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- Awards | February 5, 2014
Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Adapted Screenplay
The Best Adapted Screenplay category is the lesser exciting of the two screenplay categories because of the lack of competition within the group of nominees, as well as the lack of films to choose from this year in general....
- Features | February 3, 2014
Favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman Moments
The film industry suffered a tragic loss Sunday morning when Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment. At the young age of 46, Hoffman certainly had more incredible performances in him to contribute to the 63...
- Awards | February 3, 2014
Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Original Screenplay
The screenplay category is notorious for giving smaller indie films a chance for recognition that they may not receive anywhere else on Oscar night. That is not exactly the case this year as all but one (Blue Jasmine) of...
- Movie | February 3, 2014
Jeune & Jolie
Following the well-received In The House, François Ozon returns with yet another voyeuristic character study with Jeune & Jolie (French translation: Young and Beautiful). Over the course of four weather seasons, the film follows a sexually driven adolescent striving...
- News | January 31, 2014
Giveaway: Blue is the Warmest Color Free Streaming Code
One of the most controversial films of 2013 was the French film Blue is the Warmest Color, which received top honors winning the Palme d’Or at this year at the Cannes Film Festival. The film also scored high on...
- Film Festival | January 30, 2014
SXSW 2014 Lineup Revealed
The dust is now settling in Park City after Sundance finished up a week or two ago, meanwhile the people in Austin are getting prepared for the onslaught of crowds for the SXSW festival of films, music, and technology....
- News | January 28, 2014
Best ‘Her’ Trailer Parodies: Philip Seymour Hoffman and SNL
Spike Jonzes’s film Her is without a doubt incredibly endearing, thought-provoking, and technologically probable as a socially awkward man (Joaquin Phoenix) in the not so distant future falls in love with his advanced Operating System (voiced by Scarlett Johannson)....
- Movie | January 28, 2014
Cold Comes the Night
Cold Comes the Night is the sophomore effort from indie director Tze Chun, who teams up with Nick Simon and Osgood Perkins on a screenplay about a single mother who is forced into criminal activities for the well being...
- News | January 28, 2014
Exclusive Clip: Sick Birds Die Easy
What happens you send a filmmaker, an Oxycotton loving conspiracy theorist, an alcoholic musician and his girlfriend, and a shit ton of acid into the jungles of Africa? You get Sick Birds Die Easy, an experimental documentary that blurs...
- Movie | January 27, 2014
12 O’Clock Boys
Who would have thought a documentary about some urban dirt bike riders in Baltimore could be so fascinating? Apparently Lofty Nathan did, and so will you after watching his directorial debut, 12 O’Clock Boys. This indie documentary follows a...
- Features | January 24, 2014
Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Supporting Actress
It appears as if the Best Supporting Actress race will be between Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong’o, and with the latter recently winning at the Screen Actor Guild, we have her slightly nudging out J-Law for the win. But...
- Movie | January 20, 2014
Labor Day
The director that made Thank You For Smoking, Juno, and Up in the Air switches gears with his new film, Labor Day, which slows down its pace and trades charismatic and quirky characters for flawed and heartfelt ones, while...
- Awards | January 18, 2014
2014 Screen Actors Guild Award Winners
Tonight marked the 20th anniversary of the Screen Actors Guild Award show, an award ceremony that has become a great precursor to help predict how the acting categories could turn out for the Oscars. The biggest reason for this...
- Awards | January 16, 2014
2014 Oscar Nominations
This morning the official announcement of nominations for the 2014 Oscars came in with Gravity and American Hustle on top with an impressive total of 10 nominations each. Not far behind was 12 Years A Slave which hauled in...
- Awards | January 15, 2014
2014 Spirit Award Predictions
If my predictions of the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards hold true (nobody hold their breath), 12 Years A Slave would walk away the big winner with a projected total of 5 awards. I believe the rest of the...