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Reese Witherspoon Returns to Form in WILD – Movie Review
Reese Witherspoon makes her comeback in a big way with WILD.

Oscar Watching: No Complaints Here
For the most part, the evening went as expected – well, maybe not John Travolta’s presenting of Idina Menzel, who performed original song winner “Let It Go” (Adela Dazeem?) or Darlene Love‘s lovely impromptu rendition of “His Eye is on the Sparrow” as 20 Feet from Stardom won best documentary

The Blu-Rays/DVDs You Need to Buy This Month Part 1
There’s almost always an awesome film coming out on Blu-Ray or DVD each month, so which ones should you pay attention to this month?

Oscar Watching: The Awards Season is Boiling Down
The Olympics pushed back the ceremony and with it the whole awards season. So studios won’t let their films go down without a fight – even the original song race is heating up.

Oscar Watching: GRAVITY Bringing Other Movies Down?
Do GRAVITY’s wins with the DGA and the PGA mean the space-set thriller will win best picture?

Oscar Watching: Guilds and Upsets and Ties, Oh My!
How will the Screen Actors Guild and Producers Guild of America’s picks affect the Oscar race?

Oscar Watching: Let It Go
The Oscar nominations arrive tomorrow. Who’s in, who’s out, and who might surprise us?

Oscar Watching: Guild Overload
Members of the motion-picture academy could begin voting for the Oscars as early as Dec. 27, and today marks the final day on which they can turn in their ballots. In other words, nothing that happens after today – save for some kind of technical glitch with the electronic voting

Oscar Watching: HUSTLE for 12 YEARS
Last week’s awards announcements suggest 12 YEARS A SLAVE and AMERICAN HUSTLE are the Oscar front-runners, but what about the surprises?

Oscar Watching: “It’s So Fluffy”… and Awful?
Forgive me for cribbing that movie quote, a line you couldn’t escape – believe me, I tried – upon the release of Despicable Me in 2001. It aptly describes the film: not much in the way of story, little more than an excuse for androgynous yellow creatures to spew gibberish.

Oscar Watching: An AMERICAN HUSTLE at the Oscars?
The first-ever screening of David O. Russell’s American Hustle took place on Sunday. Word on the film ranges from decent to terrific, but the one aspect on which everyone seemed to agree: Jennifer Lawrence. Last year’s best actress winner apparently steals the movie with her scenes as the wife of

Oscar Watching: It’s the HOLIDAY Season
With around $36.6 million, Thor: The Dark World again won the box office, but competition for the number one spot was surprisingly heated, so there go the “hammer” and “clobber” puns I would have otherwise used. Malcolm D. Lee’s The Best Man Holiday, sequel to 1999’s The Best Man, more

Oscar Watching: SAVING MR. BANKS for the Oscars?
Awards, Fests, and Campaigns Disney will push Saving Mr. Banks, which had a great stateside debut at the AFI Fest, as a drama at the Golden Globes. Most of us thought the film, which examines Walt Disney and P.L. Travers’ disagreements about 1964’s Mary Poppins, would contend in the musical

Oscar Watching: Writers Take the Spotlight
The movie world is all about the actors, though the occasional director, like Peter Jackson, George Lucas, or Steven Spielberg, gets lucky every now and then. Among the cinematic minds who almost always the short end of the stick, however, are the writers, but The Hollywood Reporter gives them the

Oscar Watching: A BLUE Oscar Race?
Blue is the Warmest Color, Abdellatif Kechiche’s drama about a romance between two young women, took to four screens this weekend and opened with $100,316. That’s $25,079 for each screen, a better average than Michael Haneke’s Amour, the drama about an elderly woman and her husband that earned five Oscar

Oscar Watching: This Race Needs Some GRAVITY
Cate Blanchett got a tribute on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at the New York Film Festival. That and Blue Jasmine director Woody Allen’s personal shout-out surely gave more credence to her already-strong best actress campaign. Of course, Blanchett’s perceived rival for the Oscar, Sandra Bullock, got a boost of her own