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All posts by Colin Biggs
Letterboxd’s Best of 2013
etterboxd is a site that is quickly gaining popularity in the short time it has existed allowing users to log, rate, review and tag movies as they are watched, even following friends to check in onwhat they are watching. Just in 2013 alone, the site has regist...
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Top 15 Filmmakers to Look for in 2014
2015 is the year major studios are releasing all of their biggest blockbusters in hopes that their hundred million dollar babies (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Batman vs. Superman, Star Wars: Episode VII, Hunger Games: Mockingjay and Bond 24) fight to become the mo...
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When Awards Hurt The Films
In the snark-heavy world of awards blogging, we've forgotten what this time of year should be about.
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‘Calvary’ Trailer Takes Matters Into Its Own Hands
John Michael McDonagh's The Guard garnered was one of my favorite films from 2011, so the announcement that McDonagh's follow-up effort would be debuting at Sundance was excellent news.
Adding to the intrigue of Calvary is its brilliant story. A town's belo...
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’12 Years’ Wins Over Las Vegas Film Critics
'12 Years A Slave' has been winning a rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Support...
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History of Film: ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Godfather Part II’
Coppola's first two tales of the Corleone family aren't just great crime movies, they're cultural touchstones.
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’12 Years’ Dominates Online Film Critics Society Awards
More than two weeks into December and the awards season has fallen into a lull with many critics groups building a consensus behind 12 Years A Slave. 12 Years A Slave is not alone in its multitude of wins however, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jared Let...
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‘American Hustle’ Pulls The Wool Over Our Eyes to Great Delight
Director David O. Russell has crafted another instant classic.
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‘Interstellar’ Teaser Trailer Explains Little But Leaves Jaws Agape
Paramount and Warner Bros. made a lot of cinephiles happy today by posting the first trailer for Christopher Nolan's upcoming sci-fi Interstellar. Like the teaser trailer for Inception, very little about the film's plot or characters is made clear during the f...
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Boston, Los Angeles and New York Online Critics Announce Their Winners
Today three critics groups announce their batch of selections for the best of film in 2013 with Boston, Los Angeles and New York's second critics group all chipping in before the end of the day. The National Board of Review and NYFCC made separate stands going...
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