Kevin’s picks on DVD this week: The Ides of March, Traffic Criterion Blu-ray, Mad: Season 1, Part 2, Merlin: The Complete Third Season and Abduction
Stinker of the week: Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Kevin Carr’s DVD Rundown for 01/17/12
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(Los Angeles, CA – December 13, 2011) – The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominees for the 17th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The winners will be announced at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at the Hollywood Palladium. Hosted by Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer, featuring Fitz and The Tantrums as the house band, the show will broadcast live for the fifth year in a row on VH1 at 8:00 PM ET/PT.
“Hugo” and “The Artist” each received an impressive 11 nominations for the 17th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, one short of the record 12 nominations for “Black Swan” last year. Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” garnering nods for Best Picture, Best Young Actor for Asa Butterfield, Best Director for Martin Scorsese, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound and Best Score. Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist” received nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for Jean Dujardin, Best Supporting Actress for Berenice Bejo, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, and Best Score.
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Rated R
Opens: October 7, 2011
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei and Jeffrey Wright
Directed by: George Clooney
Kevin says The Ides of March ROCKS!
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Read Kevin’s review of The Ides of March here.
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THE IDES OF MARCHOctober 7, 2011
STARRING
Ryan Gosling as STEPHEN MYERS
George Clooney as GOVERNOR MIKE MORRIS
Philip Seymour Hoffman as PAUL ZARA
Paul Giamatti as TOM DUFFY
Evan Rachel Wood as MOLLY STEARNS
Marisa Tomei as IDA HOROWICZ
Directed by: George Clooney
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This Week: Kevin takes a hint from Gerard Butler in the new film Machine Gun Preacher and he finds a man of God to join him in the Magical Studio in the Sky this week. That man of God is Reverend Scott, a frequent guest on the Outside the Cinema podcast. He’s not a great man of God, but he’s got a picture of Cheech Marin with a shotgun on his Twitter avatar, so that’s gotta count for something. Reverend Scott preaches to Kevin about giant boxing robots in Real Steel, politics as usual in The Ides of March and why he’s so much cooler than Gerard Butler in that preacher film. Oh, and there’s some pretty offensive stuff in the third segment. Sins abound!
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Some folks will probably disagree with me, but I thought 2011 was actually a pretty good year for films. It didn’t have a ton of fantastic movies, but it had plenty of good movies throughout. Sure, there were real stinkers (which you can check out here), but there were plenty of three- and four-star films out there to enjoy. And the beginning of 2011 treated us to some truly original content, even if none of those films made this final list. But when all is said and done, there were still some fantastic films to enjoy, and the year really ended with a bang.
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