Tag: True Grit
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‘Lincoln’ leads 2013 Oscar race with 12 noms
Steven Spielberg’s period drama about Abraham Lincoln’s noble quest to emancipate the slaves looms largest in the 2013 Oscar picture with 12 nominations. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...
Jan 10, 2013 / Eric M. ArmstrongTony Scott’s 5 best films
Tony Scott (1944 – 2012) As with any prominent artist’s or entertainer’s passing, it gives us a chance to look back on their body of work in a way we’ve never looked at it before — as completed...
Aug 23, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongTallgrass Film Fest Announces 2010 Lineup, Details
The 8th annual Tallgrass Film Festival will take place in and around downtown Wichita Oct. 22-24, showcasing more than 124 independent films from more than 11 countries around the world, and hosting...
Oct 2, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongMark Ruffalo is the New Hulk
Edward Norton replaced Eric Bana and now indie favorite Mark Ruffalo will replace Norton as the iconic green monster, The Hulk, in the upcoming “The Avengers” film. Deadline reports that Ruffalo’s...
Jul 24, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Fincher to Direct a ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Update in the Vein of ‘Star Wars’
With Hollywood mining comic books, toys, board games and established film and pop-culture properties like there’s no tomorrow, it was only a matter of time before Captain Nemo and his Nautilus would...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongVideo: Oscar-Winning Animated Short ‘Logorama’ in its Entirety
As maligned as the Oscars are for the supposed politics of the voting process, their notorious neglect of some of the greatest films of all time and the shady campaigning of certain films, the awards...
Apr 6, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongKip Williams to Direct ‘Paranormal Activity 2’
Tod “Kip” Williams has signed on to direct the sequel to last year’s viral found footage-style hit, “Paranormal Activity.” The decision was announced by director Oren Peli on the film’s website . He...
Mar 28, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Black List 2009: Most Popular Unproduced Scripts
The Black List is a famous Hollywood list of the best, or at least most popular, screenplays “compiled every year from the suggestions of 311 film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten...
Dec 12, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNine Trailer
Nine is a vibrant and provocative musical that follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while...
Nov 18, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongZombieland (2009)
Suspicion of intellectualism and academia have been the unfortunate byproducts of the rise of the big dumb Hollywood movie. Film critics, once a respected and authoritative source of reasoned...
Oct 28, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Men Who Stare at Goats Trailer
In this quirky dark comedy inspired by a real life story you will hardly believe is actually true, astonishing revelations about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military come to light when a reporter...
Aug 29, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMegan Fox is Catwoman? Not So Fast
The Sun, a British tabloid, announced Wednesday that they had the scoop on a bit of casting news for Christopher Nolan’s followup to the unimaginably successful, “The Dark Knight,” for Warner Bros....
Aug 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA FilmCast #17 – Public Enemies, Moon
Michael Mann’s highly anticipated depression-era gangster flick, “Public Enemies” gets the TMA FilmCast treatment this week. Does Mann’s foray into the controversies of digital video pay off, or...
Aug 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongSony Wants to Make ‘Moneyball’ Without Soderbergh
We reported almost a month ago that Sony’s Amy Pascal had scrapped Steven Soderbergh’s “Moneyball” only 96 hours before shooting was scheduled to begin. It turns out that the studio still wants to...
Jul 9, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongOscars Doubling Best Picture Nominees to 10
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announced at a news conference that its board of governors has made the decision to expand the number of films to be nominated for Best...
Jun 24, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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