The Various Columns

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Showing posts with label Rooney Mara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rooney Mara. Show all posts
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Failed Oscar Campaigns: "The Social Network" (2010)

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Scene from The Social Network As awards seasons pick up, so do the campaigns to make your film have the best chances at the Best Picture rac...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

Composing Greatness: #6.The Freshman Class of the 2010's - "Her" (2013)

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Scene from Her  (2013) Welcome to Composing Greatness: a column dedicated to exploring the work of film composers. This will specifica...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Failed Oscar Campaigns: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011)

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Scene from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo As awards seasons pick up, so do the campaigns to make your film have the best chances at th...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

A24 A-to-Z: #52. "A Ghost Story" (2017)

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Scene from A Ghost Story In case you didn't know, A24 is one of the great purveyors of modern cinema. Since 2013, the studio has fo...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

An Appreciation of Soderberg's 'Last' Movie "Side Effects"

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Scene from Side Effects It is likely that if you watch movie trailers, then you'll remember the Logan Lucky  one. How could you not...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

The First Trailer for "Song to Song" Sees Malick Playing a Familiar Tune

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Rooney Mara It didn't used to be this way. The promise of new Terence Malick seemed to be something that would happen once every de...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Review: "Lion" is a Powerful Film About Finding Faith in Loneliness

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Dev Patel Many films capture the feeling of loneliness with poetic and often abstract imagery, but few show it as anything but a means ...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Failed Oscar Campaigns: "Carol" (2015)

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Scene from Carol As awards seasons pick up, so do the campaigns to make your film have the best chances at the Best Picture race. Howev...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Review: "Kubo and the Two Strings" is a Gorgeous Masterpiece

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Scene from Kubo and the Two Strings In an era where animated films are more likely than not to get the CG treatment, one has to wonder ...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

The Runner-Ups: Andrew Garfield in "The Social Network" (2010)

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Andrew Garfield in The Social Network Every Oscar season, there are a handful of actors who get tagged with the "snubbed" mon...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Birthday Take: Rooney Mara in "Carol" (2015)

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Rooney Mara in Carol Welcome to The Birthday Take, a column dedicated to celebrating Oscar nominees and winners' birthdays by payi...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Rooney Mara Expresses Her Regret Over Whitewashed "Pan" Role

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Rooney Mara Save for Chris Rock's highly anticipated opening monologue, it seems like the Oscars So White debate has finally mellow...
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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Review: "Carol" is About as Perfect as Movies Get

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Scene from Carol Love. At its core, almost every fiction narrative film has been in some capacity about the subject of love. It could b...
Friday, December 11, 2015

The "Kubo and The Two Strings" Teaser Shows Laika Continuing to Expand Their Style in Interesting Directions

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Scene from Kubo and The Two Strings There are few trailers for animated films that are as exciting as Laika Studios. The company that h...
Monday, August 17, 2015

The "Carol" Teaser is a Sultry and Beautiful Debut for the Potential Oscar Contender

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Cate Blanchett It seems like we have been collectively talking about director Todd Haynes' Carol  for eons now. Since its premiere ...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Lesbian Drama "Carol" Receives New Release Date

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Cate Blanchett If you're already marking up your calendar for Oscars season, there's plenty of chance that director Todd Haynes...
Friday, June 5, 2015

A Comparison Between "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Films (2009 and 2011)

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Left to right: Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig As the years have dragged on and the culture continues to find new fads, it is interesting ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Update: The "Pan" Release Date Gets Moved From Summer to October

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Hugh Jackman The last time that we heard from director Joe Wright's Peter Pan adaptation Pan , it had received a trailer and a prom...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The First "Pan" Trailer is a Beautiful Spectacle Promising Great Adventure

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Hugh Jackman With awards season in our midst, it isn't entirely wise to look forward to next year's potential selections. Howev...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Oscar Darling Daldry is Back with the First "Trash" Trailer

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Rooney Mara If there is one thing that Oscar aficionados know, it is that the Academy has a love affair with director Stephen Daldry. T...