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Catch up with the idea behind these weekend posts here. I’m in Detroit for the game tomorrow, so movies are somewhat out of sight, out of mind. Somewhat. As I drive around town, I’m reminded of some singular opportunities here for the film industry. I don’t really know the particulars of filming in Detroit or […]
CINEJABBER: Devil’s Night in Motown
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:00 pm · October 30th, 2010
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THE LONG SHOT: Categorical denial
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:25 pm · October 20th, 2010
Wild-eyed, table-banging outbursts — sometimes of enthusiasm, more often of outrage — are an essential part of the floor show at any Oscar viewing party, but I’ve rarely seen one more unhinged than a friend’s reaction to Angelina Jolie’s (widely expected) Best Supporting Actress victory at the 1999 ceremony. “Who the hell was she supporting?” […]
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THE LONG SHOT: Bait, switch
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:39 pm · September 29th, 2010
Whether you choose to believe them or not – and speaking for myself, I don’t quite – the media powers that be have currently reduced the 2010 Best Picture race to just two titles: “The Social Network” and “The King’s Speech.” That’s entirely (and hopefully, lest things get too dull too soon) subject to change […]
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THE LONG SHOT: Critical condition
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:25 pm · November 4th, 2009
Ahead of its U.S. release this week, there is a wave of mild surprise in the blogosphere over the fact that “Precious,” the film deemed by some (yours truly included) to be the present Best Picture frontrunner, is currently sitting on a lowly Metacritic score of 57. Fitting neatly with the largely media-fabricated talk of […]
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THE LONG SHOT: What is an “Oscar movie” these days?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:14 pm · October 21st, 2009
“God, that thing’s just going to shit Academy Awards out of its ass next year, isn’t it?,” I overheard a journo behind me remark to his companion, as I made my way out of the “Up in the Air” press screening on Sunday. “It’s such an Oscar movie.” Two things struck me as interesting about […]
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‘Silence’ smack-down
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:04 am · April 28th, 2009
I stumbled onto Noah Forrest’s ribbing of Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” over at Movie City News today toward the end of this piece, and frankly, I found little I could argue with. Here’s the key graph: I think seeing Bill Hader’s brilliant impression of Jame Gumb on a recent SNL made me […]
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THE LISTS: In Contention’s top 20 horror films of all time
Posted by In Contention Staff · 1:11 pm · October 28th, 2008
Yes, how trite. Another list of the “best” horror films of all time. But this really is the most subjective of genres, is it not? What is scary to us all has slipped out of the realm of the universal and become much more of a personal thing. Certain films are inarguable, as our list […]
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Best of the 90’s
Posted by John Foote · 7:43 am · July 4th, 2008
Time is the enemy of all films as it erodes what was once exciting and original. Truly great movies are able to withstand the test of time, but I wonder if enough time has passed to take a look back at the 1990s cinema and make some decisions. There was a major breakthrough in the decade with […]
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