Is Paramount Screwing Over Selma By Being Too Cheap To Push It?

Ava DuVernay's riveting historical drama Selma is transitioning from critical darling to crowd-pleaser, now that more audiences are able to see the Christmas Day release. Many industry analysts who track a film's progression on the awards circuit still pencil the film onto Oscar's charts, seeing as how the powerful Civil Rights drama deserves inclusion in such heavy hitting categories as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for David Oyelowo) and Best Screenplay. But there are a few pre-Oscar touchstones that Selma -- strangely – has missed, and it has more than a few critics questioning the efforts of the movie's parent ...

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The 10 Biggest Movie Disappointments Of 2014

Movies are like gifts: on the outside, you think you have a good idea of what you're anticipating. So you go along with the experience, knowing full well that in the end, good or bad, you asked for the end result. This is the process that led us to love such films as Iron Man or The Cabin In The Woods, films that were unknown quantities when they started, but became big time hits once they were revealed to the world. Of course, this scenario works the other way too, and that's when you find the movies that were supposed ...

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Watch The Hysterical Love Actually Spoof That SNL Had To Cut

Last weekend's Saturday Night Live featured an array of Christmas sketches including the host, Amy Adams. And as it goes, some sketches make the cut to be shown on air, and some only go so far as dress rehearsal. But thankfully, SNL posted one of their unaired sketches that is just too good to miss. Watch their hysterical spoof of the cue-card scene from the Christmas-classic, Love Actually: Nothing says Christmas like rewatching the famous British romantic comedy, Love Actually. With that time of the year upon us, the film will fill up thousands of TV and computer screens to ...

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Wait, Did George Clooney Lie About Circulating A Petition To The Studios?

About a week ago, George Clooney had claimed that the big names in Hollywood were only hurting the recent Sony scandal by not helping to prevent it. When Sony decided to pull The Interview from theaters, Clooney attempted to be a voice of reason by creating a petition with his agent to stand strong against the hacking and sent it to all of the big studios and executives in the entertainment industry. Or so he claims. Because recent news is proving Clooney's story to be a big lie. Representatives from five studios have spoken, and say that they never even ...

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The 10 Best Movie Music Moments Of 2014

It's amazing what a particular piece of music can do to a scene in a movie. Whether it's part of an original score or massively famous pop song, its implementation by a talented filmmaker can completely transform how we experience and understand a sequence, while also laying down new layers of subtext and meaning. When a director can find the perfect track to match with certain events, there are few things more special in the cinematic world – and we've seen many great instances of it this past year. The time has come to look back at all of the films ...

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The 10 Best Music Moments Of 2014

It's amazing what a particular piece of music can do to a scene in a movie. Whether it's part of an original score or massively famous pop song, its implementation by a talented filmmaker can completely transform how we experience and understand a sequence, while also laying down new layers of subtext and meaning. When a director can find the perfect track to match with certain events, there are few things more special in the cinematic world – and we've seen many great instances of it this past year. The time has come to look back at all of the films ...

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Get Fired Up About Doctor Strange With This Badass Picture

With production on Doctor Strange not likely to start until the back-end of 2015, it will probably be a while before we actually get to see Benedict Cumberbatch in costume as the titular sorcerer supreme. That fact is not stopping the vivid imaginations of fans, however, which is why we're already seeing amazing fan art like what is featured in the Tweet below: "Strange but not a stranger" - Talking Heads http://ift.tt/1B9kTtn Scott Derrickson (@scottderrickson) December 22, 2014 As you may have noticed, this cool bit of art was actually posted by Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson himself - but ...

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