Man…what a twisty, bendy road Hollywood walks leading up to its biggest night. Favorites that seemed like a lock just one month ago look shaky in the light of early spring, and unlike previous years, there doesn’t seem to be as big a stable of heavy favorites as what many come to expect at this […]
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‘Don’t Look Up’ hits too close to the COVID mark, inviting its audience to live in a fictional hell only slightly worse than their reality.
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Trey Hock talks about all things Oscar. The 88th Annual Academy Awards are this weekend. Join Scene Stealers at Screenland Armour to watch.
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You name a cinematic technique, Scorsese uses it here. It’s impossible not to relent to its hallucinatory style, and you may begin to feel a little under the influence yourself.
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With his film version of The Great Gatsby, Baz Lurhmann creates a glittery and overstuffed adaptation that has all of the facts of the book right, while missing the skepticism and queries posed by it’s narrator and author.
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The latest from director Baz Luhrmann takes a much deserved beating this week.
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Does Django Unchained continue Tarantino’s hot streak or is it a misstep? Find out on a not especially Christmas-y Christmas episode of the podcast.
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As an entertaining revenge flick with roots in exploitation films and spaghetti westerns, Django Unchained succeeds. But it never rises above its genre to become a real, affecting emotional experience.
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In podcast #38, Eric and Trevan unceremoniously celebrate their first year of the podcast with a video montage no one can see. They also reminisce about the maddening Clint Eastwood biopic ‘J. Edgar,’ starring Leo DiCaprio and Emilio Estevez directing his dad Martin Sheen in ‘The Way.’
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‘J. Edgar’ is a frustrating watch for sure, and its pace flags several times due to some heavy-handed narration that struggles with these historical themes, but the fact that it’s always fighting itself is kind of fascinating too.
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Up until about a week ago, not much was known about “Shutter Island.” It’s the fourth collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s based on a Dennis Lehane novel of the same name and its release date was spontaneously pushed back from October 2009 to February 2010. Add to that, DiCaprio’s relative low profile […]
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I have seen all but one of the scheduled biopics that are opening for this year’s winter Oscar rush, but I have serious doubts that there will be a more engaging and exciting biography this year than The Aviator, Martin Scorsese’s breathless take on Howard Hughes’ glory years. Like Jamie Foxx in Ray, it features […]
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