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I never expected to be writing anything praising the acting skills of Woody Harrelson, the bartender from "Cheers." I thought he did a decent job of playing the over-the-top crazy guy (Natural Born Killers, 2012) and the "doofus" (Kingpin, Edtv), and didn't really have too much to offer aside from that.In the past few months, I have seen Zombieland, The Messenger and Defendor. If not for

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Chuck Norris turned the big seven-zero today. Although we don't see much of him these days besides the occasional Walker, Texas Ranger rerun or Bowflex commercial, here's a poem for our favorite Bearded Superhero: No longer a ranger, he's long since retired Now an internet meme, to which many aspire The man, the myth, the legend, the beard Even by Death the Bowflex master is feared On Chuck

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I laughed, I cried, I got angry. That description could've worked for this year's Oscars or the 2009-2010 awards season as a whole.Hosts, presenters and award-winners provided hilarious and heartfelt moments, from the Critics' Choice Awards in January to the Academy Awards last night (March 7). Seeing the first woman to win an Academy Award for Direction (Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker)

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If I were a betting person, these are the films I would put my money on tomorrow night (March 7) to win this year's Academy Awards. (Personally, I'm rooting for Bright Star, Inglourious Basterds, A Single Man, Fantastic Mr. Fox and An Education.)Best PictureIt will still boil down to The Hurt Locker vs. Avatar, and I think that The Hurt Locker will prevail.(Likely) Winner: The Hurt

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If we picked the Oscar winners, we would choose the following people and films to bring home the trophies at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night (March 7).Best Picture - Inglourious Basterds is a clear favorite at Speaking of Cinema.Best Director - Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) would have to be involved in some kind of tiebreaker if we

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Due to a trip out of town, there will not be round-ups this week.Additionally, there will not be News and Awards Round-Ups March 1-7 due to Oscar overload. News Round-Ups will be back March 8-14; Awards Round-Ups, due to the end of awards season, won't return until sometime in late fall or early winter.

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Warning: The following "spoils" the ending of Leap Year, 27 Dresses and The Holiday. I'm sorry if it shocks you. At the end of the last romantic comedy-related post I wrote, I suggested that I should skip out on the romantic comedies that I know will be completely predictable and practically devoid of any reality whatsoever. I didn't follow my own advice, and I recently found myself watching Leap

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*Headline Only Edition - I was short on time this week, so I will only be posting headlines and links to the stories as opposed to blurbs.*Films in the WorksOwen Wilson to star in new Woody Allen film [The Hollywood Reporter]Gwyneth Paltrow joins Steven Soderbergh, all-star cast for Contagion [Deadline Hollywood]Ben Stiller to star in Brett Ratner's Tower Heist [The Hollywood Reporter]Al Pacino

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The Writers Guild of America announced the winners of their awards on Feb. 20. Mark Boal won Best Original Screenplay for The Hurt Locker, while Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won Best Adapted Screenplay for Up in the Air. Best Documentary Screenplay went to Mark Monrow for The Cove. More information can be found here.The winners of the BAFTAs (the British equivalent of the Academy Awards) were

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Disclaimer: I know I'm not the first person to complain about realism in mainstream romantic comedies and I know I won't be the last. I just wanted to get another voice out there. Also, as a spoiler alert, you shouldn't read this if you haven't seen (and want to see) 500 Days of Summer and When Harry Met Sally, as I write about their endings. I recently acquired both 500 Days of Summer and When

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For this year's Oscar night (March 7), I have decided to come up with menu items based on the Best Picture nominees and other films that received multiple nominations. And like Julie in Julie & Julia (nominated for Best Actress for Meryl Streep as the one and only Julia Child), I have taken to my blog to share my ideas.Beverages"Blue Tolstoy" (Avatar & The Last Station) - Blue Mixer or Food

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Over the last few years, with IMDb's "Born Today" feature on its home page and the rise of Wikipedia and its pages with lists of famous birthdays by date, it has become more common for everyone to discover with what famous people they have birthdays in common. My "group" includes some rather disappointing and embarrassing public figures, including director Michael Bay, "socialite" Paris Hilton

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"Film is history. With every foot of film lost, we lose a link to our culture, to the world around us, to each other, and to ourselves." -Martin ScorseseTo most filmgoers, Martin Scorsese is known for two things - his incredible body of work as a filmmaker and his trademark bushy eyebrows. To cinephiles, Scorsese is an icon for those things and his work as a film preservationist. The mass

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Films in the WorksPenelope Cruz is in talks to join Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides for Nine director Rob Marshall. [Yahoo] Multiple sources are also reporting that Cruz will star in the psychological drama Melancholia for filmmaker Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Antichrist). [The Playlist]Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Marion Cotillard will star in the

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will broadcast a live stream of its Oscar nominees luncheon on Feb. 15 on its Facebook page, Oscars.org and Livestream.com. The stream will start at 11:30 a.m. Pacific time. More information can be found here.Actress Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Definitely Maybe) will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific

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The nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards were announced on Feb. 2. View the complete list here.The nominations for this year's Razzies, which honor the worst in film, have also been announced. All About Steve, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Land of the Lost, Old Dogs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were nominated for Worst Picture.Worst Director: Michael Bay (Transformers: Revenge of

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*Headline Only Edition - I was short on time this week, so I will only be posting headlines and links to the stories as opposed to blurbs.*Films in the WorksJohnny Depp to direct Keith Richards doc [Coming Soon]Russell Crowe and Beyonce linked to latest incarnation of A Star Is Born [Empire]Terrence Malick to direct all-star romance [Empire]Hugh Jackman to co-star in Chinese film [Empire]Next

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Catherine recently (as in, a mere few hours ago) outlined how Nic Cage was "snubbed" for the "Worst Actor of the Decade" award from the Razzies. However, Nic Cage's supposed ineptitude doesn't even begin to compare to the other actors who were nominated for the award (Ben Affleck, Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, Mike Myers, Rob Schneider). Let's look at the differences: - Nic Cage has only been

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The nominations for the Razzies (which "honor" the worst movies every year) for films released in 2009 and the entire decade of the 2000s were announced yesterday (Feb. 1), and Knowing, which has continued Nicolas Cage's string of ridiculously bad movies this decade, didn't even get a nomination. Cage also failed to get a spot on the highly un-coveted list of nominees for Worst Actors of the

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I can, on occasion, be fairly elitist about films (although I also have appreciation for a good silly romantic comedy or action film now and then), and this awards season, I've found that this elitist side is emerging full force.The Avatar-mania is one thing, as is the over-zealous Streepfest, and honoring Sandra Bullock for her best performance. (I'm doing my best not to get emotional and write

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In the entire history of the Academy Awards, only three women had been nominated for the Best Director Oscar - Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties - 1976), Jane Campion (The Piano - 1993) and Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation - 2003) - and none of them won. For 2009, Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) has been a front-runner in the Best Director race throughout awards season, culminating in her DGA

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Actress Anne Hathaway (Rachel Got Married, The Princess Diaries) and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak announced the nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this morning (Feb. 2).Here they are:Best Picture: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the AirBest Director: Kathryn

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Films in the WorksThe final two Harry Potter films will be released in theaters in 3D. [Hollywood Reporter]Robert De Niro will play Alabama Governor George Wallace in director Lee Daniels' (Precious) upcoming Civil Rights drama Selma. [Deadline Hollywood via Coming Soon]Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, TV's "Heroes") is likely to play composer George Gershwin in an upcoming biopic for director Steven

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The Directors Guild of America held its awards ceremony on Jan. 30. Kathryn Bigelow won Best Feature Film Director (the first woman to do so) for The Hurt Locker. Louie Psihoyos won the award for Best Documentary Direction for The Cove. Norman Jewison was given the Lifetime Achievement Award. More information can be found here.The Grammy winners were announced on Jan. 31. In the film-related

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The offices of legendary arthouse movie studio Miramax closed their doors on Jan. 28. Founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who left the studio in 2005 and formed The Weinstein Company, recently expressed interest in buying their former company back from Disney, but Disney chief Bob Iger set a price of $1.5 billion, which is probably too high, considering the issues the Weinsteins have been having

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The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards took place on Jan. 23. The cast of Inglourious Basterds won Best Ensemble, and Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for his work in the film. Jeff Bridges won Best Actor for Crazy Heart, and Mo'Nique won Best Supporting Actress for Precious. Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) presented Betty White with the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Films in the WorksAfter talks last week, Sony has announced that Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) will direct the next film in the Spider-Man franchise. [Superhero Hype]Fresh out of dropping out of another Spider-Man film, Tobey Maguire is rumored to be assuming the role of Bilbo Baggins in director Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of The Hobbit. [The Sun]In other major movie rumor news: Tim Burton

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Art is subjective. One person can look at a painting, go to a play, listen to a song or watch a movie and have a completely different interpretation or reaction than anyone else. This allows for passionate discussions and debates, which can expose people to different perspectives. I believe that censoring someone's artistic vision, and therefore robbing the people who appreciate art of the chance

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This week, in an effort to see as many of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominees as possible, I saw three films - A Single Man, The Lovely Bones and Crazy Heart.A Single ManIn co-writer/director Tom Ford's A Single Man, Colin Firth plays George Falconer, an English professor in the 1960s who recently lost his partner of 16 years (played by Matthew Goode). It follows him throughout one day

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A Little RomanceIn looking at my three favorite films of 2009, I discovered that, for me, this is the year of the revisionist love story. Away We Go isn't a romantic comedy about a couple falling in and/or out of love, it's about a couple that stays in love, from the beginning to the end of the film. (I'm not really spoiling anything there.) 500 Days of Summer is a story of boy-meets-girl, but

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The opportunity to compile this list seems like it came to me at a very appropriate time in my life. For this past decade marked the revelation of my growing interest in movies. The realization also came to me that 10 years ago, I began to save and collect my ticket stubs. Extending all the way back to 1999 with Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Oh yes) to 2009’s Me and Orson Welles, I’ve

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I know a lot of these opinions might put me in the minority, but I'm okay with that. I'm sure at least a few people agree with me.I should start by saying that most years, especially as I've gotten more into cinema, the films that have been recognized come awards season have gradually fallen further down on my list of personal favorites each year. In 2008, my favorite fictional film was

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All of the major press awards have pretty much come and gone, now it's time for the various guild and organizational trophies to be handed out, from the Screen Actors Guild Awards (on Jan. 23) to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscars (on March 7). Judging from the winners of the various critics' awards and the nominations that have been announced so far for the rest, these are

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Films in the WorksLikely due to the script concerns reported on in last week's News Round-Up, Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi have dropped out of Spider-Man 4. Sony plans to continue with a fourth Spider-Man film, but they intend to change it to a movie that focuses on Peter Parker in high school. [Associated Press] Sony has apparently concocted a wish list of directors they would like to

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The Writers Guild of America has announced the nominations for its annual awards. The Best Original Screenplay nominees are Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker, James Cameron for Avatar, Joel and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore for The Hangover, and Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for 500 Days of Summer. For Best Adapted Screenplay: Scott Cooper for Crazy Heart (based on

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Okay, I hate linking to People, but it's where the story's at, so what can you do?: Nicolas Cage Will Pay IRS $14 Million It shows how much property and unneeded stuff he's bought over the years when he's paid $70 million in taxes and still owes another $14 million. Taxes in the U.S. are pretty low, although it seems that Cage would buy just about anything for a while. I know he's been

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This weekend will be filled with awards, starting with the Critics' Choice Awards on Friday night, and ending with the Golden Globes on Sunday night. This year, only a couple of categories are considered "locks," making my following predictions a little bit harder to determine.Best PictureGlobes Drama Noms: Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, Up in the AirGlobes Comedy or

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I saw 500 Days of Summer for the first time the week it was released in theaters in the St. Louis area. I went into it knowing I would like it, having the suspicion that it would hit on all the right notes for me. Add in terrific performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, two actors that I adore, and I swoon. After my first viewing, I was a bit apprehensive about the film, as I

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Welcome to the first Speaking of Cinema Weekly Movie News Round-Up. I will be attempting to post one of these every Sunday night.Films in the WorksBill Paxton is apparently prepped for a Twister sequel; he's even pitched it to one of the original's producers. [Premium Hollywood]Production on Spider-Man 4, or Spider-M4n, which has been rumored as a possible title, has been postponed due to issues

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For the duration of awards season, which lasts through March 7 (Oscar night), I will be posting weekly updates on nominations, winners and other honors.The Producers Guild of America has announced its nominations. In competition for the Best Picture Award are Avatar, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Precious, Star Trek, Up and Up in the Air; Best Animated

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Today's edition of "Nic Cage: National Treasure" is brought to you by the number 2.First, we have the second trailer for Kick-Ass, one of many Nicolas Cage movies coming soon to a theater near you. Most of the films that Cage has made throughout his career (especially in the last decade) have been pretty ridiculous. This has potential to be ridiculous in a good way. Judge for yourself (via The

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In honor of one Mr. Nicolas Cage's 46th birthday, I'm here to introduce Speaking of Cinema's very first semi-regular column: "Nic Cage: National Treasure!" The idea started because it's sometimes difficult to go more than a couple of days without hearing a new piece of news about Nic Cage, whether it be career related or one of his growing personal issues. There's no set timetable for the

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A moving relationship piece that asks the question, "Would you erase me?" A quirky dramedy about one of the most interesting families to ever grace the big screen. A French film about a girl ready for adventure. Another dramedy, this time about an IRS agent with a narration problem. A movie about a guy, a girl and some really great music. A film with six incarnations of Bob Dylan. An epic action

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To kick off Speaking of Cinema, six of us compiled our individual top 20 films of the 2000s lists to come up with what we as a group feel were the highest points of cinema in the last decade. Obviously, we feel that filmmaker Christopher Nolan did a good job, as three of his films made the cut. Paul Thomas Anderson's two films both made our list as well, as did two films written by Charlie

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In 2009, I had a lot to look forward to as far as new movie releases go: Up in the Air (George Clooney movie that filmed in my hometown), Public Enemies (Johnny Depp and Christian Bale!) and Nine (a musical with Daniel Day-Lewis and every female star), just to start. 2010 seems to pale in comparison, although there are two movies I really can't wait to see.Inception (Release Date: July 16)I

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Hi there. Welcome to Speaking of Cinema. I'm Catherine Krummey, and I've been writing about film since I was 13. I have been an avid film fan for even longer than that, so it's to be expected that I found a few fellow film enthusiasts along the way. I am also a writer, and have enjoyed doing so pretty much since the time I learned how to write. So not only do I know film fans - I know writers,

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