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If Bollywood music just isn't your thing, try GROOV3, a hip - hop inspired dance workout created by Ben Allen, a choreographer and instructor who's performed at the American Music Awards and in the film adaptation of Rent.
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Edgerton soon began scoring starring roles, headlining the disappointing 2011 remake of The Thing, starring opposite Jennifer Garner in the family film The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) and playing a predominate role in the Academy Award - nominated Zero Dark Thirty (2012).
Additional film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast Film Critics Award and Screen Actors Guild ® Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award ® winning film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image Award nomination; FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.
As The Martian continues to hang around at the box office and build some unexpected awards season momentum, director Ridley Scott has had plenty of opportunities to tease the upcoming film and he's said a lot of things.
Coming off his awards circuit triumphs Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, Thursday night's screening of Vallee's film might make things a little clearer for us... or it might not.
Usually a delay of six months would be a very bad sign for a film of this scale, but Warners are choosing to release the film in a period we've come to know as «awards season,» and that can only be a good thing.
The Italian film Beautiful Things directed by Giorgio Ferrero awarded at the Festival CPH: DOX in Copenhagen.
This is one of the key preceding awards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screeawards before the Academy Awards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screeAwards are handed out early next month, and on the feature film side of things, another significant win adds even more momentum to the acclaimed thriller Get Out with Jordan Peele winning the award for original screenplay.
One thing you should know about the Reader's year - end film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 2018.
Among other things, the filmmaker spoke about where he came up with the inspiration for «Citadel,» how having a limited budget and short shooting schedule place restrictions on what he could shoot for the film and how he reacted when he heard he won the Midnighter Audience Award at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival.
The Academy Awards try to do too many things: song performances, film montages, speeches on issues, salutes to veterans and the departed.
A lucrative blockbuster winning over genre enthusiasts and thoughtful moviegoers alike, as well as being the rare sci - fi film to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, District 9 is exactly the kind of thing that sets someone up for the sophomore jinx.
Things always go quiet in the film industry over the holidays as everyone takes one last break before the full onslaught of awards season campaigning.
It turns out they were a series of very mediocre jokes about things that had happened so far, like Harris mispronouncing Chiwetel Ejiofor's name, Terrence Howard getting surprisingly emotional, and Pawel Pawlikowski getting played off by the music as he accepted the award for best foreign film.
And the award for Film that made me smile the most so far this year goes to... So, after admitting that Side Effects would be his last film before going into retirement, one of my favorite directors Steven Soderbergh did the most logical thing and... made another movie.
As mentioned in last week's column, things are finally starting to get back to normal for Blu - ray fans, with several great options arriving in stores today, including an Academy Award winner, a pair of Barbara Streisand films, and the latest from David Chase.
Not to say that Million Dollar Baby is a total mutt, just that it's an obvious, self - important, overwritten thing designed to appeal to specific, stodgy, awards - season prestige audiences that love film so much, this will be the first movie they see this year.
This is a reminder that seeing films long before the awards makes them difficult to remember even if you're conscientuous about such things; I screened almost all of them in 2014... or earlier in Tom at the Farm's case)
«The greatest thing art does is erase the lines in the sand when the world says to make them deeper,» said the Mexican director, as he accepted the award as a proud immigrant to the film industry.
We've heard good things about Germany's «The Lives of Others» and Denmark's «After the Wedding,» but the utter lack of exposure for both of these films seems to indicate that a nominee is about all they should be expecting come awards night.
Seven of his films, including Alice in the Cities (74) and Kings of the Road (76), screened at the inaugural Festival in 1976, and he returned to TIFF with the features Paris, Texas (84), which won the Palme D'Or and the British Film Academy Award; Lisbon Story (94); Land of Plenty (04); Pina (11), which was nominated for an Oscar; Every Thing Will Be Fine (15); and Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez (16).
Admit it: As much as you love Academy Award - winning dramas or classic foreign films, you've got a secret thing for the best action movies.
Grabbing mentions in Best Film and Director (George Miller) and Charlize Theron for Best Actress, the film's critics awards success has been the most exciting and refreshing thing in this early season.
Welcome to another edition of the Awards Circuit Power Hour, our weekly podcast diving deep into all things film, television, and entertainment.
Founded by Joey Nolfi and Alice G. Beck, Serving Cinema is an all - encompassing, life - giving hub for all things film, awards season, and pop culture.
Belgian film - makers Luc and Jean - Pierre Dardenne have been winning awards for years, and Two Days, One Night is one of the best things they've ever accomplished.
While the media debates whether or not the rescinded Oscar nomination is a slight agains faith based films, or just a disciplinary warning to the Academy Awards» voting members and contestants, there is one thing that's clear: All this attention will be a real blessing for the publicity department of this little, independent movie.
One of the most predictable Academy Awards in years took a film - worthy twist as Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker beat out the closest thing the movies have to a Goliath — a film that just happened to be made by Bigelow's ex-husband.
In fact, La La Land won the most awards of any of tonight's nominated film or television shows, a good sign of things to come as we move into 2017.
The film also stars Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode, and seems like the kind of thing made for awards season.
Being obsessed with the Oscars it is often difficult to watch certain films without that «handicap» of only judging a film based on its chances to win awards, and that should not at all be the only thing going in one's mind while watching a film.
People will make comparisons to Get Out but that film had both of those things plus the full weight of industry and critics» support throughout awards season.
We've said it before, we'll say it again, but one of the best things about looking back over a year just gone at the movies is thinking of all the names who, just twelve months ago, we were faintly aware of at best, and who now have burgeoning careers, awards buzz, lead roles in indie films and / or blockbuster gigs on the way.
Perhaps he won't factor into things at all, but it just adds another thing to the stack that the film is up against in order to get any sort of awards traction.
«Fruitvale Station,» the tale of the BART shooting of Oscar Grant III, was also a big winner at the confab, with the film's Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan winning breakthrough director and breakthrough actor, respectively — and presaging good things at the Spirit Awards, if not the Oscars.
Things changed for the duo in 1985 when Universal released «Back to the Future,» a film that spawned two successful sequels, earned Gale and Zemeckis their first Academy Award nominations and made Michael J. Fox a star.
Still, it was snubbed in Feature and Director, similar to how things turned out for the film with the Gotham Awards recently.
Everyone kind of assumed that this award was a shoo - in for Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Tony Kushner, but it seems to me its narrow vision and belabored structure is the thing most responsible for the film's stuffy boredom.
Things didn't improve with the Jury Grand Prize, which went to Tanović's film, and to make it perfectly clear why they liked it so much, the jury also gave Nazif Mujić the Best Actor Award — for essentially playing himself.
It's one thing to read early Academy Award predictions to see what folks like myself think will happen at the end of the year, but it's another thing entirely to actually know which films will be in contention.
«In 1989, 10 films got awards [at the Cannes Film Festival] and Do the Right Thing wasn't one of them.
While there, he's covered film festivals, written TV, and film reviews and speculated on all things award shows.
While many folks are furiously updating and upgrading their Oscar predictions as festival season gets underway, the thing is we're barely into the swing of the awards season, and more crucially, most of the films have yet to be seen.
It's a nice tease for the emotional force of the film, but it also suggests a distinct problem in terms of award: How do you pick just one of these actors to receive praise for a film that deserves quite a bit more of that very thing?
One of the craziest things about the Academy Awards — and Oscar season in general — is the importance we place on what film ends up winning Best Picture.
While the film may be petitioning a bit too adamantly for award - season affection, it does have a number of things going for it.
T.J. Miller took the stage to host the 22nd annual Critics» Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday night, where honorees included the hottest films of the year — La La Land, Arrival and Moonlight topped the list for most nominations — as well as some of the buzziest TV shows of the year in Westworld, This Is Us and Stranger Things.
Guy, I have very deep reservations about the film itself and Gladiator winning an ACTING award of all things, really surprises me.
Few would argue against The Tree of Life being one of the very best films of the year, but it remains the biggest wild card of awards season, a massively beloved masterpiece whose impressionistic style and ostensible inaccessibility have presumably prevented it from surging forward as a sure thing.
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