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Silver Linings Playbook

daily stream: starting over ain’t easy

Tue, Jan 09, 2024
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2012’s Silver Linings Playbook is on Netflix in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).

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your awards-season cheat sheet… or how to sound like an insider (even if you’re not)

Tue, Nov 19, 2013
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Shhh! don’t tell anywhere where you heard all this…

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the 85th Academy Award nominees

Tue, Feb 12, 2013
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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.

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question of the day: What do you think of the Golden Globe winners (and losers)?

Mon, Jan 14, 2013
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Feel free to talk about the TV side as well, if you like…

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Hollywood’s *real* bias (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Skyfall is saying something profound to UK audiences (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Nov 29, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Silver Linings Playbook movie review

Sat, Nov 24, 2012
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Sometimes uncomfortable, often funny, and always electrifying. Plays like a gentle sendup of romantic comedies fueled by a restless, blunt anti-charm and irascible honesty about wants and needs.

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question of the day: Should there be an Oscar for Best Casting Director?

Wed, Oct 24, 2012
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And which films from recent years should have gotten such a nomination? (Hint: Argo is brilliantly well cast.)

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Silver Linings Playbook (trailer)

Mon, Oct 22, 2012
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A new film from David O. Russell — plus Bradley Cooper plus Jennifer Lawrence in her first significant grownup role — means I will be there.

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