Best Lead / Supporting Actor Oscar 2013 - July Predictions

Well, we certainly got our first lock (if there is one) in Robert Redford, after J.C. Chandor's All Is Lost debuted at Cannes.  The Hollywood Legend received rave career-best reviews, and it has been almost four decades since his first and only acting nomination for The Sting.  Additionally, Tom Hanks (Castaway) and Spencer Tracy (The Old Man and the Sea) managed to get into the field in the past with similar material.  The pensive...

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Movie Spoiler: The Silence of the Lambs

Part of my original agenda for this blog was to finish out a few things that I started.  One of them was the Oscar Revisionism series, which just wrapped up last month.  One day, I hope it inspires someone to take it further and give the series a more in-depth, improved treatment.  Another thing I set out to do were detailed movie spoiler summaries for my most favorite films.  While I have written a lot of plot rundowns over the...

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Oscar 2013: Pacific Rim (spoilers)

Well, I've been absent for a while without warning.  Truth be told: my days at blogging regularly are over.  But, I will check in from time to time with random spoiler summaries, and, most definitely Oscah! predictions.  In the meantime, I had read the script to Pacific Rim several months back.  It's from the imaginations of Guillermo del Toro and screenwriter Travis Beacham.  I have to say, out of all the scripts I've read...

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