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SHOWBUZZDAILY Oscars Live-Blog

It’s time to gather for the 2020 Academy Awards, which… may be the most boring in recent memory. The favorites currently seem to be overwhelming, and with no host to carry us through the proceedings, if 191...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Joker” & “Harriet”

JOKER (Warners – October 4): One’s perception of Todd Phillips’ JOKER may depend in part on the context in which one sees it. In the 11 years since Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the MCU...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “A Kid Like Jake” & “You Were Never Really Here”

A KID LIKE JAKE (no distrib): Silas Howard’s dramedy is a small-scale triumph, successfully navigating its way from a wry account of upper-middle-class Brooklynites Alex and Greg (Claire Danes and Jim Parsons) tr...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot”

DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT (Amazon): Despite some Christopher Nolan-esque splintering of time, Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is one of his more convention...

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AFI FEST Film Review: “Her”

HER: Buy A Ticket – Tetrabytes of Love From Spike Jonze HER, which was presented at the AFI Film Festival before opening in theatres next month, is the first film Spike Jonze has directed from his own original s...

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OSCARS MINUS 5: The Sure Thing That Is, and The One That Isn’t

The voting has just closed for this year’s Academy Awards, and here at Oscar Central, we are ready to make the following call: Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the Best Actor Oscar for Lincoln. I know, way out on a...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

THE MASTER: Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers. So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Oscars Live-Blog

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Joker” & “Harriet”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “A Kid Like Jake” & “You Were Never Really Here”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot”

AFI FEST Film Review: “Her”

OSCARS MINUS 5: The Sure Thing That Is, and The One That Isn’t

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

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