Online Film Critics Society 2009 awards nominees

Now posted over the OFCS news blog. Fun! A taste: BEST PICTURE The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds A Serious Man Up Up in the Air BEST DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow (-) The Hurt Locker Neill Blomkamp (-) District 9 James Cameron (-) Avatar Joel & Ethan Coen (-) A Serious Man Quentin Tarantino (-) Inglourious Basterds … more…

U.K. box office: ‘Avatar’ opens big

And homegrown British films make good showings: 1. Avatar: £8.5 million (NEW) 2. St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold: £1.6 million (NEW) 3. A Christmas Carol: £1 million 4. Nativity!: £.58 million (4th week; drops 13%) 5. Planet 51: £.455 million (3rd week; drops 41%) (actual numbers, not estimates) Avatar enjoyed the third … more…

how to find a real IMAX theater, and avoid the fake ones

Earlier this year, I wrote about the growing fan outrage over the retrofitted 35mm screens that now bear the label IMAX but aren’t anything like what we’ve come to expect from the format. I also wrote, earlier today, about how I saw very little difference between Avatar in IMAX 3D and Avatar in non-IMAX 3D. … more…

‘Avatar’ doesn’t really need IMAX, it turns out

So, I saw Avatar again this weekend, this time in IMAX 3D — the press screening I attended a few weeks ago was in 3D but not IMAX, and it was fascinating to note the difference. And the difference is… not much, actually. What makes Avatar so unique, so absorbing, and so absolutely must-see on … more…