"No mass cultural event has the capacity to infuriate like the Oscars." A truer line was never written, and so Grantland writer Mark Lisanti launches a "tournament" to determine the most egregious ...
BERLIN - Looking at the list of seen films I have yet to write up out of the Berlinale, I'm finding it harder than usual to forge connections between them that would make for a satisfying review roundup. Some have bee...
(Welcome to the Oscar Guide, your chaperone through the Academy’s 24 categories awarding excellence in film. A new installment will hit every weekday in the run-up to the Oscars on February 24, with the Best Pic...
If you missed yesterday's lead-in to this year's shots column, go catch up. In it you'll find my somewhat unique criteria and reasoning for choosing this year's assortment.
Before diving into part two today, some tho...
(Welcome to the Oscar Guide, your chaperone through the Academy’s 24 categories awarding excellence in film. A new installment will hit every weekday in the run-up to the Oscars on February 24, with the Best Pic...
"Lincoln" may have unexpectedly received the in-person endorsement of Bill Clinton at the Golden Globes this year, but it's not the only Best Picture getting some First Family support. Today at the White Hou...
This is another case where I'm not sure the whole film works, but there are things about this movie that Spielberg really nailed. For one thing, he cast Djimon Hounsou, who is remarkable in the film. And say what you ...
(Welcome to the Oscar Guide, your chaperone through the Academy’s 24 categories awarding excellence in film. A new installment will hit every weekday in the run-up to the Oscars on February 24, with the Best Pic...
Supervising sound editor Wylie Stateman earned his sixth Oscar nomination this year for “Django Unchained.” The soft-spoken industry veteran has now managed to earn a nomination in four decades – the...
I decided to do something a little different with the shots column for this, its sixth year (and finally imitated -- we're flattered). I thought I'd go with a metric of instinct rather than analysis.
First let me int...
