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Showing posts with label Tom Hooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Hooper. Show all posts
Saturday, September 5, 2020

Failed Oscar Campaigns: "Cats" (2019)

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Scene from Cats (2019) As awards seasons pick up, so do the campaigns to make your film have the best chances at the Best Picture race....
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Every Best Picture Nominee of the 2010's Ranked: #65-69

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Scene from American Sniper As 2019 reached its end, another decade of cinema had passed. It's amazing to think about how things hav...
Friday, December 27, 2019

The Memory is Over as Universal Stops Campaigning for "Cats"

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Scene from Cats  (2019) At this point, director Tom Hooper's Cats  has been a universal meme of poor studio decisions and surrealis...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Review: "Cats" is at Its Best When Nothing Makes Sense

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Scene from Cats  (2019) How do you adapt a musical like Cats  into the cinematic landscape? That is the question that has been asked fo...

"Cats" Hacks a Hair Ball at the Box Office

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Scene from Cats Things just keep getting worse for Cats . In just a week, the film featured some of the year's worst reviews with m...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

In an Unprecedented Move, "Cats" to Get Improved Effects After a Few Days in Release

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Scene (?) from Cats It was never going to be easy for the cinematic version of Cats . The film comes over 40 years after its Broadway d...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

The "Cats" Oscar Campaign is Officially Down to Its Last Life as Bad Reviews Surface

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Scene from Cats  (2019) Well, it was a fun ride while it lasted. Whether it existed as a serious thought or was something of a joke, th...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Check This Out: "Cats" Enters the Best Original Song Category with Taylor Swift's "Beautiful Ghosts"

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Scene from Cats  (2019) Somehow, everyone knew that it just had to happen. With director Tom Hooper's Cats  marking the major movie...
Monday, November 11, 2019

If "Cats" Is Not Careful, It Will Miss Key Awards Voting Deadlines

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Scene from Cats  (2019) Next to Avengers: Endgame  and Joker , the film that most haven't stopped talking about are director Tom Ho...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

The First Trailer for "Cats" (2019) is Here to Get Stuck in Your Memory

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Scene from Cats  (2019) It was seven years ago that director Tom Hooper managed to turn Les Miserables  into an Oscar-winning movie. Wh...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Failed Oscar Campaigns: "Les Miserables" (2012)

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Hugh Jackman As awards seasons pick up, so do the campaigns to make your film have the best chances at the Best Picture race. However, ...
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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Anne Hathaway Admits to Not Being Happy During Oscars Acceptance Speech

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Anne Hathaway Director Tom Hooper's Les Miserables  may have been a box office hit, but the general reception in the years since ha...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Theory Thursday: Alicia Vikander Didn't Deserve an Oscar for "The Danish Girl"

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Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl Welcome to a weekly column called Theory Thursdays, which will be released every Thursday and discus...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Nothing But the Best: "The King's Speech" (2010)

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Scene from The King's Speech Welcome to the series Nothing But the Best in which I chronicle all of the Academy Award Best Picture ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Birthday Take: Anne Hathaway in "Les Miserables" (2012)

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Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables Welcome to The Birthday Take, a column dedicated to celebrating Oscar nominees and winners' birthd...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Birthday Take: Colin Firth in "The King's Speech" (2010)

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Colin Firth in The King's Speech Welcome to The Birthday Take, a column dedicated to celebrating Oscar nominees and winners' b...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Why I Like Eddie Redmayne (Even If You Think He's Oscar Bait-y)

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Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl There is a certain amount of flack that I have received for my opinions on Eddie Redmayne. Mind you, ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The First Trailer for "The Danish Girl" is a Compelling Look at the First Transgender Woman

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Eddie Redmayne With the start of September, we officially have crossed the threshold into Oscar Season. While this is the dry month whe...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Why I Hate the "Oscars So White" Campaign

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It's the happiest time of the year for fans of movie award shows. For better or worse, the Academy Awards are perceived as the pinnac...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Which Christmas Release Stands the Best Chances at Best Picture?

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Les Miserables Update: I have written a review for Les Miserables   posted here . Before I begin, I would like to wish everyone a Mer...