Posted in Film Honors

Film Honors: 1991

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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Posted in Film Honors

Film Honors: 1992

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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Posted in Acting Characters Women

60 Kick-Ass Female Film Characters – Part VIII

These women and girls represent the sly, and clever. They are humanitarian, or an upholding of family values. They are, at a very young age,…

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Posted in Awards Season

European Film Awards – 1st Phase

Another awards event that ought to have much more impact, or at least attention, on the great big awards season is the European Film Awards….

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Posted in Awards Season

Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

The Film Independent Spirit Awards not only signals the dawn of the ensuing awards season, it also finds a way to honor the story-telling and…

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Film Honors: 2012

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

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Posted in Christmas

50 FILMS FOR CHRISTMAS – PART 2 OF 10

The wife and I are really getting through these Christmas-related films in a real hurry. A real mixed sack of film presents here, one best…

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Posted in Acting Characters Women

60 Kick-Ass Female Film Characters – Part VII

A girl can spend years and years of her childhood in the wilderness in preparation for avenging her mother’s death. A woman can come face…

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Posted in Festival

Hidden Iranian Cinema Honored

  Ran by the Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation (ICAF), the Chennai International Independent Film Festival (CIIFF) in India aims to open our eyes across the…

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Posted in Christmas Movies

50 Films for Christmas – Part 1 of 10

We’ve only gone and done it again. A brand new movie marathon don’t you know. And as the Christmas decorations went up so early in…

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Posted in Director Interview Women

Interview: Barbara Ann O'Leary of Directed By Women

I spoke in depth to Barbara Ann O’Leary who created the Directed by Women initiative and website, an essential film-goers almanac. The pioneer talks a…

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Interview: Erik Anderson of AwardsWatch

AwardsWatch‘s head honcho Erik Anderson agreed to speak to me last week. I wanted to grill him on the whole awards season blogger progress and…

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Posted in Links

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #29

Way back in May I drafted a Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, a semi-regular kudos to the great film-related stuff I read. I mean, I read a…

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Posted in Horror Movies

The Modern Evolution of Horror Films: 13 to Watch

Just at a surface glance, it’s interesting to see how American cinema has evolved since the millennium, particularly post-9/11. The most obvious change is the…

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