So on one hand, yeah, the headline here is a joke. The Screen Actors Guild’s nominating committee, and indeed, any self-respecting awards-giving body is highly unlikely to pass kudos approval on a film like “The Avengers.” But in the case of a category meant to honor well-oiled machines like this one, perhaps they should.
Should 'The Avengers' assemble for SAG ensemble?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:05 am · April 25th, 2012
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Cannes Check: Leos Carax's 'Holy Motors'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 2:51 pm · April 24th, 2012
We continue our series of Cannes Competition previews.
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‘The Raven,’ the death impulse and harmony
Posted by Roth Cornet · 12:22 pm · April 24th, 2012
Perhaps no genre explores the dance between creation and destruction as vividly as horror. This weekends suspense release, “The Raven,” looks at how those competing impulses played out in the mind of author Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Lists: Top 10 most anticipated films of Cannes 2012
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:50 am · April 24th, 2012
From ‘The Paperboy’ to ‘Amour,’ the films I can’t wait to see on the Croisette this year.
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Cannes Check: Jacques Audiard's 'Rust and Bone'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:33 am · April 23rd, 2012
We continue our series of previews of the Cannes competition entries.
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It's been a while since I've given a damn about romance in Hollywood
Posted by Roth Cornet · 11:40 am · April 22nd, 2012
There are a plethora of romantic films released each year in Hollywood, be they comedic or dramatic, and yet very few of them are even slightly memorable.
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‘Avatar’ director James Cameron backs a space venture to expand Earth’s resources
Posted by Roth Cornet · 9:44 pm · April 20th, 2012
James Cameron backs a privatized space mission that is oddly reminiscent of the one presented in “Avatar.”
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Cannes Check: Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:58 am · April 20th, 2012
We kick off our daily series of Cannes Competition previews with a look at the festival opener.
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'Beasts of the Southern Wild' director to be honored by San Francisco fest
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:29 pm · April 19th, 2012
Sundance got the awards party started early on “Beasts of the Southern Wild” when the film won the Grand Jury prize there, but today the San Francisco Film Society announced it and director Behn Zeitlin as the recipient of its inaugural Graham Leggat Award at the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Remembering Levon Helm in 'The Right Stuff'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:26 pm · April 19th, 2012
I didn’t know until I got an AP brief yesterday that musician and actor Levon Helm was so on the ropes in his 16-year battle with throat cancer. Today, the inevitable announcement: Helm has left us. He was 71.
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Robert Pattinson leaves 'Twilight' for Cronenberg in the first 'Cosmopolis' trailer
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:03 pm · April 18th, 2012
The first trailer for David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method” follow-up “Cosmopolis,” adapted from the Don DeLillo novel, reveals that it is an official selection for this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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Anthony Hopkins cuts a mean profile as Alfred 'Hitchcock'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:50 pm · April 18th, 2012
Principle photography on Sacha Gervasi’s Alfred Hitchcok biopic creatively titled “Hitchcock” began last Friday in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight has released the first still of Hopkins in full Hitchcock makeup and attire.
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269-minute 'redux cut' of Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' to premiere at Cannes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:46 pm · April 18th, 2012
Once cut to ribbons by its American studio, Sergio Leone’s epic gangster saga has been restored to the never-premiered length he initially wanted.
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'Cabin in the Woods' inspires a look back at the scare that imprinted
Posted by Roth Cornet · 10:55 am · April 18th, 2012
This past weekend, the deconstructed slasher flick “The Cabin in the Woods” opened in theatres. As a woman who was once deeply enamored of the scary story the release has called to mind what was, for me, the first moment that a chiller set itself deeply and irrevocably into my psyche
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‘Girls’ just want to change the needle on a tired media record
Posted by Roth Cornet · 4:37 pm · April 17th, 2012
I am increasingly disheartened and disturbed by what appears to be an unstoppable uptick in open misogyny. I’ve touched on this previously in a piece on Women and Oscar, but the subtle and not so subtle flames of gender bias are currently increasing rather than abating.
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As the NFL schedule is announced, should the Oscars take note?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:18 pm · April 17th, 2012
After revealing which teams would play each other in the 2012 football season a few months back, the NFL has just announced the official schedule with dates via a prime time special on the NFL Network. Should the Academy take a similar tack in revealing its annual list of Oscar nominees?
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On 'Cabin in the Woods,' 'Prometheus' and spoilerphobia
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:47 am · April 17th, 2012
Some critics have landed in hot water for revealing a so-called “twist” in “The Cabin in the Woods,” but are some readers too sensitive to spoilers?
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First subtitled trailer for Berlinale festival hit 'Tabu'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:00 am · April 16th, 2012
We have the first look at a subtitled trailer for Portuguese romance “Tabu,” the critical hit of this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
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