Oscar Oscar Oscar (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Ben Affleck
the 85th Academy Award nominees
With links to my reviews. I’ll be adding reviews of the last few films I haven’t yet covered between now and the Oscars.
QOTD: Does a film winning awards make you more (or less) likely to want to see it?
With Argo and Skyfall both out on DVD timed to coincide with their Oscars and BAFTAs buzz, the studios clearly hope awards influence home viewers…
question of the day: What do you think of the Golden Globe winners (and losers)?
Feel free to talk about the TV side as well, if you like…
Argo (London Film Festival review)
I was literally in tears for parts of Argo, a purely physical reaction, not an emotional one, to deal with the tension. The only other option would have been to moan out loud, the film is almost that unbearably nerve-wracking.
Argo (trailer)
This could well be my favorite trailer ever. I mean, Munich meets The Player? How can this go wrong? It can’t.
Puncture (trailer)
Ah, I see Chris Evans is taking Ben Affleck’s wise advice: You do the safe picture, then you do the art picture.
cinematic roots of: ‘The Town’
In The Town, bank robber (Ben Affleck) falls in love with a witness (Rebecca Hall) to his latest heist while dodging the investigation of an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) into his crimes. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
The Town (review)
Affleck could do for Boston what Martin Scorsese did for New York in the 1970s…
does Hollywood have a new formula?; James Franco and ‘Twilight’?; the 11-year-old movie critic; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…
