AWFJ announces 2011 awards
So happy that The Artist is Best Film for us…
critic buzz
question of the day: Has the Academy just made it too difficult for documentaries to qualify for the Oscars?
Should the critics at The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times be the gatekeepers for an awards organization they aren’t members of?
question of the day: What was the most sexist movie or movie moment in 2011?
Yesterday’s QOTD was about a feminist net positive: the most kickass female action character of 2011. Today, we go the other way…
question of the day: Who was the most kickass female action film character of 2011?
I gotta go with Bryony, the kickass elf Wrapping Operative Grade Three, in Arthur Christmas…
OFCS announces 2011 awards
I hate that The Tree of Life won so many awards, but I am only one voter among many…
OFCS announces nominees for 15th annual awards
The Tree of Life and Drive lead the slate with, respectively, seven and six nominations apiece…
AWFJ announces nominees for 2011 EDA Awards
I think I’ll fashion one or two QOTDs from the AWFJ’s signature categories next week, so start having a think on some of them…
Margaret (trailer)
So I skipped the only London press screening of Margaret last week because I’m already so far behind on absolutely everything. Big mistake…
question of the day: Can the year-end awards-baiting movie madness ever be changed (even if David Denby can’t make it happen himself)?
It’s probably not helping that even venerable institutions such as the New York Film Critics Circle and The New Yorker are now engaging in ridiculous fanboy First! shenanigans.
question of the day: Can a Hollywood insider be a fair film critic?
I was stunned to learn this weekend that VanityFair.com has hired actor and filmmaker Paul Mazurksy to be its new film critic. WTF?
