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On the Rise: Dane DeHann
[Editor's Note: In On the Rise, the House profiles an exciting new talent whose career, be it behind the camera or in front of it, is worth watching.] The bookish geek and the boyish heartthrob merge...
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Links for the Day: AFI's Best in Film and TV, Zero Dark Thirty's Real-Life...
The AFI's tastes in movies and TV is predictable. In Zero Dark Thirty, she's the hero; in real life, CIA agent's career is more complicated. Richard Brody's best movies of 2012. And click here for...
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Links for the Day: SAG Nominations, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees,...
Dominating today's SAG nominations are Lincoln, Argo, and Silver Linings Playbook. And none of those films lead the 44th annual NAACP Image awards. Donna Summer, Public Enemy, and others to be...
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Slant Magazine's Top 25 Films of 2012
From Calum Marsh's introduction to Slant Magazine's Top 25 Films of 2012: "Two thousand and twelve was, if nothing else, a banner year for uncommonly productive provocation. Audiences were galled by...
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Oscar Prospects: Anna Karenina
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] Any...
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Oscar Prospects: Les Misérables
[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.] With its...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Adapted Screenplay
If not bound to have the most impressive lineup, this category may just yield the season's most deserving win, as Tony Kushner's script for Lincoln remains miles ahead of the competition, standing,...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actor
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year's likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze, filled with veterans who, however gifted, feel like obvious choices, and...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actress
Boasting enough fine performances to fill a 10-wide field at least, Supporting Actress is this year's most riches-packed race, and the one with the least room for disappointment. In any season, Sally...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Actor
Whether the reason boils down to Oscar politics or an overall lack of enthusiasm, it certainly looks like Joaquin Phoenix is about to be snubbed for his work in The Master, despite the mind-boggling...
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Understanding Screenwriting #104: Lincoln, Skyfall, Flight, & More
Coming Up In This Column: Lincoln, Skyfall, Flight, Silver Linings Playbook, Middle of Nowhere, Covert Affairs but first... Fan Mail: First an addition to US#103. I mentioned in the credits for Argo...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Picture
As is customary at this stage of the game, Oscar's top quintet of Best Picture hopefuls are sure to land nominations, so much so that every pundit can pat himself on the back, saying proudly that if...
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Links for the Day: Lincoln Leads Oscar Noms, What Happens When You Cast...
The Oscar nominations have been announced. Here is what happens when you cast Lindsay Lohan in your movie. Cinema Eye Honors announces its winners. Arrested Development's fourth-season premiere date...
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Links for the Day: J.J. Abrams to Direct Next Star Wars, Slamdance Winners,...
J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars: Episode VII. Andrew Bujalski wins a prize at Sundance. Manohla Dargis on the independent voices drowned out by the Sundance buzz. Slamdance announces jury and audience...
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Ranking Oscar's 2013 Nominees
The 85th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Starting tomorrow, check back daily as we predict the winner in every Oscar category. This...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Adapted Screenplay
Of all the major players in this year's Oscar game, Lincoln has arguably had the most mercurial ride, beginning as a sight-unseen frontrunner, performing few remarkable feats in the precursors,...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actress
Blergh. Weeks ago I dreamed a dream where all the particulars of my presently contentious relationship with Anne Hathaway, a typically smart and endearing performer who was robbed of an Oscar in 2009...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actor
All right, all right, all right. We should've known. As it turned out, Matthew McConaughey's still supple ass cheeks in Magic Mike were no match for AMPAS's preference for saggy old balls in this...
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Links for the Day: Bush Family Emails Hacked, The Grandmaster Reviews, Tony...
Audacious hack exposes Bush family phoos and sensitive correspondence. David Hudson rounds up reviews of Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster. Listen to the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, Push the...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Actor
The larger-than-life aura that Daniel Day-Lewis breathes into the characters he portrays seems also to have in recent years extended to the actor himself, whose notorious choosiness about selecting...
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