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'Seduced and Abandoned' with Alec Baldwin at Cannes
Last year at the Cannes Film Festival, Alec Baldwin and director James Toback ran around for 11 days making a movie about two guys (themselves; it’s a documentary) scrambling to line up financing for a different movie, a sex-soaked tale of a right-...
Tags: Festive Events, Film Festivals, Alec Baldwin, Entertainment, Media Industry
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Coen brothers' loser is winning over Cannes
CANNES, France — Whatever its commercial fortunes when it opens in the U.S. this December, "Inside Llewyn Davis" already has won the acclaim sought so ardently by the fictional folk singer of its title, the latest charismatic loser in a long,...
Tags: Suicide, John Goodman, Festive Events, On the Road (movie), The Artist (movie)
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Oscars speeches: Honestly sincere, or expertly faked?
Los Angeles looks lush. But as often noted, it is actually an arid wasteland where nothing but artifice and self-interest sprouts naturally. That's the cynical, archetypal reading. For instance, two thirds of the way into Nathanael West's cynical,...
Tags: Georgia Institute of Technology, Les Miserables (movie), Ang Lee, Entertainment Events, Politics
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The Oscars telecast's rocky road
Last night's Oscars were like an emotional roller-coaster at a terrible amusement park--beginning wth Seth MacFarlane's as-bad-as-feared monologue, the show rarely rose above painful and hit few peaks. Allow us to relive some of the night's best and worst...
Tags: Jennifer Hudson, Theater, Ang Lee, John Travolta, Judaism
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Partying with Oscar
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — When Chris Tucker and Jon Voight are grooving side by side to Rick James' "Give It To Me, Baby," you know the surreal dream that is the Vanity Fair post-Oscars party is playing out again. For many of the nominees and...
Tags: Helena Bonham Carter, Elton John, Catherine O'Hara, Conan O'Brien, Martin Short
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Shoot 'em up, blow 'em up
What history dictates, Hollywood redirects.
Following 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq (President George W. Bush's own landmark case of redirection), skeptical and shaken moviegoers were offered a spate of films responding to our new wars on the...Tags: George W. Bush, Transformers (movie), Robert Ludlum, War of the Worlds (movie, 1953), September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Star-gazing at the Oscars: Movie fans enjoy parade
HOLLYWOOD — The red carpet is in some ways a microcosm of the Oscar food chain. The first nominees arrive two and a half hours before the show is to begin. These are the people who worked on live-action shorts and documentary features and foreign-...
Tags: James Bond (fictional character), Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kristen Stewart, Les Miserables (movie), Entertainment Events
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Overlooked screenplays this Oscar season
In 1945 Raymond Chandler wrote a screed against Hollywood, and Hollywood screenwriting, for the Atlantic Monthly. "An industry with such vast resources and such magic techniques should not become dull so soon," said the man who later characterized his...
Tags: Paul Thomas Anderson, Scientology, Flight (movie), The Master (movie), Terence Davies
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RedEye's 2013 Oscar predictions
For context about predictions of major entertainment events, Duff Goldman from “Ace of Cakes” correctly predicted the result of this year’s Super Bowl. NFL experts did not. Likewise, making Oscar predictions can be a bit ridiculous, as...
Tags: Amy Adams, David O. Russell, Duff Goldman, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Christoph Waltz
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'Adventures of Tintin' fake, frantic, tiring -- 2 stars
Directed by Steven Spielberg, a longtime fan of the source material, "The Adventures of Tintin" begins with a gorgeous animated credit sequence, deftly incorporating bits of the narrative about to unfold. It's as nifty as the overture in Spielberg's...Tags: Andy Serkis, PG Rated Movies, John Williams, Movies, The Adventures of Tintin (movie)
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Oscars and American history: True, or true enough?
A modest proposal: Movies exploring some aspect of American history, such as “Argo,” “Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” should leave off the “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events”...
Tags: John Goodman, Entertainment, Central Intelligence Agency, Life of Pi (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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'Saving Lincoln' review: What were they thinking?!
0.5 stars (out of four) I kid you not: Someone in “Saving Lincoln” actually says, “Lincoln, I had been thinkin' ...,” and it's not meant to be funny. Of course, this is a historical drama in which all of the sets are green...
Tags: Penelope Ann Miller, Tony Kushner, Movies, Creed Bratton, Abraham Lincoln
May 22, 2013
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Feb 24, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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Feb 20, 2013
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Feb 15, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
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