THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Carnage”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Oscar Odds: After the Golden Globes
After its Golden Globes win for Best Drama, the odds of winning Best Picture for Argo improved a bit (moving from a $7.50 payout on a $1 wager to $5.25 and moving past Les Miserables into second place). But the favorite rem...
SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: THE TELECAST
> Until its final 45 minutes, the one thing that could be said about this year’s Oscar telecast was that it was at least brisk. Merely 2 hours and 15 minutes into the show, there were amazingly only 3 awards and the...
THE SKED MOVIE PROMO WATCH: OSCAR NIGHT EDITION
> The Academy limits the number of movie ads that can be aired on the Oscar telecast (until recent years, they didn’t allow any), so as not to make the night look like the awards are shilling for the studios. (God f...
OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Supporting Actress
As we did with Best Supporting Actor and will do the rest of this week with the other major categories, this is a final look at the rationales behind and against each nominee’s likelihood of winning. We’re ...
OSCAR ODDS for Major Categories — UPDATED
>Updated Oscar odds confirm a complete snooze is in store for Sunday’s Academy Awards as The Artist and director Michel Hazanavicius are heavy favorites to win Best Picture and Best Director, bringing a very French flavor...
UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Silver Linings Playbook” & “Seven Psychopaths” Take the Prizes
It’s a very good weekend to be a Weinstein. First Weinstein Company’s The Master set new per-theatre records for a live-action movie release without a stage show, and now the tidings from Toronto are lined ...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
> EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE: Worth A Ticket – Earns Its Tears If EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE accomplishes nothing else–and it actually accomplishes quite a bit–it’s served t...
SHOWBUZZDAILY 2018 OSCARS LIVE-BLOG
The awards may be boring at tonight’s Oscars–Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and Guillermo del Toro seem to be sure things–but the politics should be fascinating, as host Ji...
STATUETTE STAKES: Nomination Thoughts
> After what seemed as long as a presidential primary season, the Oscar nominations are finally here. What do they tell us? THE ARTIST Is Still The Film To Beat. There were plenty of surprises sprinkled throughout today’s...
The Sked: SUNDAY OSCAR Ratings (Almost Official)
>The ratings are almost official for the 84th Academy Awards. The initial fast nationals have been correctly adjusted for each time zone’s live feed pattern, and now there is just one more processing step at Nielsen...
OSCARLAND: We Are Here
Like presidential politics, the Oscar race doesn’t really stop anymore; one campaign gets underway before the last has even ended. Argo had yet to collect its statuettes in February before we were already hearing...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Golden Globes Live Blog
Even though no one who isn’t in the awards game could name a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (or would care about their opinion if they did), that group has seen its Golden Globes become the 2d mo...
STATUETTE STAKES: NY Film Critics Kick Off Awards Season
> The New York Film Critics Circle famously (notoriously?), having decided that they simply couldn’t wait to announce their 2011 awards until, y’know, they had actually seen all the movies (when Warners couldn’...
STATUETTE STAKES: I’m First! No, I’M First!
> For many years, the National Board of Review has been the self-appointed first group on the calendar to announce awards for Best Picture and other categories. The NBR is sort of like the Golden Globes without super-powe...