The Wolf of Wall Street

The Blu-Rays/DVDs You Need to Buy This Month Part 2
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?

The Water Cooler: A Weekly Pop Culture Chat Oscars Edition
Do you ever get the urge to chat about pop culture news? The Water Cooler: A Weekly Pop Culture Chat is the perfect place for that!

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: The Nominations Are In And The Dust Settles
AMERICAN HUSTLE and GRAVITY lead the Oscar nominations. 12 YEARS A SLAVE close behind. And what’s ALONE YET NOT ALONE?

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

The 13 Best Movies of 2013
11 of Screen Invasion’s writers came together to rank the best movies of 2013. Nearly 60 movies were named overall, but 13 landed on top!

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Movie Review
There’s a scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese’s (Shutter Island, Casino, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets) latest film – his first since the underwhelming Hugo two years ago – where the central character, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), falls into spastic fits at a country club

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Soundtrack Review
The Wolf of Wall Street is sure to be one of the years best films and the soundtrack is definitely up there as one of the best movie soundtracks of the year.

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: Consensus Evades 2013
Edit: This article once stated that Judi Dench was a musical or comedy contender at the Golden Globes for her work in Philomena. However, she and the film will compete in the drama categories. This week saw not only the Gotham Awards ceremony, but also the New York Film Critics

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Trailer Is Rife With Debauchery
We’re now less than a month away (December 25) from The Wolf of Wall Street, so we thought we’d take a close look at the trailer. Directed by Martin Scorsese, best known for classics like Taxi Driver (1976) and Goodfellas (1990), the movie will be his fifth collaboration with actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

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: 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: Moving MONUMENTS
Surprise: Another film we thought would contend for Oscars this year got bumped to next year, as Sony moved The Monuments Men to 2014. Apparently there wasn’t enough time to finish the visual effects. This move might give the distributor’s upcoming American Hustle more room to breathe. Monuments director George

Oscar Watching: And Then There Were Six
Before heading into this week’s analysis, one should note that six films we assume are Oscar contenders remain unseen: American Hustle, Lone Survivor, Out of the Furnace, Saving Mr. Banks, and The Wolf of Wall Street. (The lattermost might not arrive this year, but distributor Paramount hopes it will be