Thursday, January 10, 2013
Academy Award nomination successes and snubs.
The 85th Academy Awards… These Oscar noms are full of the biggest surprises and snubs in a while, although there are still going to be some complete shoe-ins. Let's get to it! Will Affleck forever pay for Gigli? Argo and Zero Dark Thirty are both movies that have been highly lauded, with multiple nominations. That doesn't happen in a vacuum. What sense does it make for the directors not to get nominated as well? I speak of Ben Affleck of Argo and Kathryn Bigelow of Zero Dark Thirty, the latter of whom's exclusion is truly shocking. These directors spend the entire time the film is being made manipulating the end result and aiding the actors in getting their best performances. Without them, those wonderful movies wouldn't exist. Is it …
Sunday, December 9, 2012
The holidays are a great time to get a head start on Oscar viewing!
December is Oscar time. Filmmakers need to get their movies under the wire so they'll be in contention for this year's awards. Consequently this month is a weird mix of crowd-pleasing mediocrity and painfully long masterpieces that mix horribly with a need for fluff. But what is a movie lover to do? Gotta see them! Having only viewed two of these films (Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook), I'm as in the dark (as it were) as you all are about how truly great these movies are, and how they measure up to each other as far as acting and scripting are concerned. All I know is what I hear, and I'm hearing a lot. All the critics associations are putting together their lists of bests, and they all influence how the Oscars go. So far, these are …
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Several theaters in Northern Virginia still have tickets available for the midnight showing of the much-anticipated movie.
Some theaters in the D.C. area are devoting multiple screens to “The Hunger Games” when it opens at 12:01 a.m. Friday, and some of those showings are already sold out. Nationwide, advance ticket sales for the movie have broken records. Online movie ticket sales company Fandango reported Tuesday that more than 2,000 showings nationwide are sold out. Pre-sales are bigger than that of the first “Twilight” film. The official movie trailer on YouTube has gotten more than 8.3 million views (see it at right). Movie studio executives are predicting the movie could rake in upwards of $85 million in its first weekend, The Huffington Post reported. Here in Northern Virginia as of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday: The movie, based on books by Suzanne Collins, is …
Grace Han Wolf
4:16 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Leslie, I'd go with you at midnight but my daughter would kill me for seeing the movie without her:) So I'm hoping to take her right after school on Friday - can't wait, the books were excellent! more ›