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Oscar Rundown, Part III: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, AMOUR, and LIFE OF PI

In this final stretch of examining the nine Academy Award nominees for Best Picture (don't miss parts one and two), the focus switches from the large, patriotically minded spectacles to more personal endeavors. Typically, such efforts tend to be...

BAFTA Honours ARGO, LES MISERABLES and SKYFALL

Last night saw the awards train hit London for the British Academy Film & Television Awards, with Ben Affleck's Argo, Tom Hooper's Les Miserables and Sam Mendes' Skyfall emerging as the big winners on the night. Since they were re-scheduled...

TTTT: An American Film Geek's Top 10 for 2012

Amid fiscal cliffs and digital revolutions, we are all adrift on a sea of change. Never mind that your boat-mate may be a hungry Bengal tiger, sometimes it's hard enough just to keep your head above water.To date, I've viewed...

Review: LIFE OF PI is Beautiful, Allegorical, Irrational, and Effective

In his fine review of Life of Pi from the New York Film Festival -- which represented an unfinished version that still required some "tweaking" -- ScreenAnarchy's Christopher Bourne points out that the story is drawn from a book...

NYFF 2012 Review: LIFE OF PI Is Intriguing But Inconsistent

The much anticipated Life of Pi, the new film from Ang Lee, based on Yann Martel's 2001 Man Booker Prize-winning bestseller, opened the 50th New York Film Festival this past Friday. Long considered impossible to film - even though, as...

Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI Gets a Gorgeous Trailer

Ang Lee's Life of Pi has been an intriguing question mark up until now. Due out on November 21, it's based on the critically-acclaimed, best-selling novel by Yann Martel, which tells the tale of a boy who survives a shipwreck...