Film Misery

The greatest movie discussion, Jackson on set of ‘The Hobbit’, 81 movie titles mentioned in films…

‘True Grit’ is one of the funniest, most exhilarating, and memorable films of the year.

Blacklisted scripts, ‘The Company Men’ positive word, Bridges, Bullock to present Oscars, TCM remembers 2010…

The initial reviews of the film are positive. Here is a round-up as well as a summary of the post-screening Oscar chatter for ‘True Grit’.

The first glimpse of the next Coen brothers film gives us a lot to look forward to.

Video game references in ‘Scott Pilgrim’, ‘The Tourist’ gets a release date, first look at ‘True Grit’, trailer for ‘My Soul to Take’.

My early picks for Best Actor and Best Actress are more hopeful than realistic.

Two of the biggest precursor awards have already announced their winners and we’re still a few weeks away from the Academy even announcing their nominees. If you ask me, the Awards season schedule needs a change that doesn’t keep us waiting forever for the big awards to come along. By the time the March Oscar [...]

Time for one last post about the Critics Choice Awards. I’ve divided my observations in “yays” – things I approve of, “boos” – things I dislike, and “considers” – things to consider about the awards race going forward. 1) YAY – Michael Giacchino wins Best Score. It wasn’t presented during the broadcast, but brilliant composer [...]

Grade: C In Jon Ronson’s book, The Men Who Stare at Goats (my review), the author presents himself as an outside observer of the psychic spy, military-trained First Earth Battalion movement. He is fascinated by the stories being told to him by former members of the U.S. military and he presents them all, expecting the [...]

Read of the Day: Almost the exact same minute that I posted my rant about movie audiences, Paul Young posted a similar one. Apart from cell phones and talkative high schoolers, he also hates babies (at movies). [Screen Rant] News of the Day: Add Jeff Bridges to the Best Actor race as Fox Searchlight has [...]