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After three consecutive duds (in my book, anyway), Clint Eastwood will have to work hard to earn my anticipation again — harder, certainly, than dipping into the biopic well once more — but he sure gets full marks for persistence. Undeterred by his recent strike-outs with the Academy, he continues to assemble the most on-paper […]
DiCaprio and Eastwood team for Hoover biopic
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:13 pm · June 17th, 2010
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Hanks was AMPAS’s first choice for President, search is on for telecast talent
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:47 pm · August 22nd, 2009
I stumbled onto this item over at Deadline Hollywood Daily earlier this afternoon. Apparently Tom Hanks, who was elected First Vice-President of the Academy earlier this week, was the group’s first choice for the top spot. In fact, Tom Sherak, who was ultimately elected president, is the one who nominated Hanks in the first place. […]
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Realization: Dan Brown is tailor made for TV
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:06 pm · May 7th, 2009
I’m not going to review “Angels & Demons.” Sometimes the idea of tearing a film apart just doesn’t quite appeal to me, believe it or not. But watching the expected unfold on the Sony lot last night, it suddenly occurred to me that Dan Brown’s bloated if intriguingly researched fiction has no place on the […]
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In the round
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:59 pm · November 20th, 2008
I don’t know why exactly, but the “roundtable” format of interviews that crops up a lot during awards season often strikes me as rather less fascinating than it’s meant to be. Unless the panel is very smartly chosen, I find the discussion tends to veer towards back-patting and faintly smug in-jokery, rather than stimulating argument […]
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11/11 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:51 am · November 11th, 2008
• Peter Bart worships at the alter of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. [Peter Bart] • Tom O’Neil reports on the 14 animated features submitted for toon consideration this year… [Gold Derby] • …and he interviews “Changeling” psycho Jason Butler Harner inside Hannibal Lecter’s prison cell deep in the bowels of the Hollywood Museum. [Gold […]
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11/7 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:43 am · November 7th, 2008
• Jeffrey Wells is basically cool with “Doubt.” [Hollywood Elsewhere] • Anne Thompson chimes in, too. [Thompson on Hollywood] • Steven Zeitchik draws parallels from this year’s political figures to the films in the Oscar hunt. [Risky Biz Blog] • Patrick Goldstein goes after the Oscar bloggers! [The Big Picture] • David Poland responds! [The […]
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REVIEW: “Inside Man” (**)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:23 pm · March 20th, 2006
Spike Lee’s “Inside Man” is an embarrassment of devices from start to painstakingly anti-climactic finish. As a run-of-the-mill heist romp, it still falls prey to a dedicated intention to distinguish itself, both thematically and stylistically. Thinking it over, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is rather impossible to write a negative review of “Inside […]
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