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Weekly Drinking Game: The Oscar Hangover Game

Weekly Drinking Game: The Oscar Hangover Game

Now that we’ve survived the onslaught of award season, you can travel to the video store and watch many of the winners in the comfort of your own home. And with both Up in the Air and Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire hitting the streets this week, it’s time for an all-encompassing drinking game to give you an honest-to-God Oscar hangover.

By Kevin Carr on March 10, 2010 | View Comments

This Week in Blu-ray: March 9

This Week in Blu-ray: March 9

Like clockwork, I’m back with another round of high definition goodness with This Week in Blu-ray. It’s a fairly light week, as several major Oscar nominees seek to capture your home video dollars by piggybacking onto the hype from this past Sunday’s ceremony. We’ve also got a few awful films that I won’t hesitate to smack around a bit, mostly because they made me feel as if my time was completely worthless.

By Neil Miller on March 9, 2010 | View Comments

This Week In DVD: March 9th

This Week In DVD: March 9th

Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves flying. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. This week we go Up In the Air with The Boondock Saints, Matt Houston, and some terribly unfunny Old Dogs.

By Rob Hunter on March 9, 2010 | View Comments

The 2010 Academy Awards Winners

The 2010 Academy Awards Winners

Tonight, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will hand out the 82nd Annual Oscars. And like any great movie site would, we will be updating our site live along with the ceremony. We will also be live-blogging the event, with much of the FSR staff providing up-to-the-minute commentary on the winners, the speeches, and everything in between. Come join!

By Neil Miller on March 7, 2010 | View Comments

Oscar Breakdown: Best Actress

Oscar Breakdown: Best Actress

This year has been a strange one for acting performances. In a big way, the only category to fully reflect the new diversity that the Academy seems to be going for is the Best Actress category in which we see a Southern mom, a famous author’s wife, a young girl finding her purpose, a young girl finding her purpose through intense hardship, and a former spy who wants to take cooking lessons.

By Dr. Cole Abaius on March 6, 2010 | View Comments

Oscar Breakdown: Best Director

Oscar Breakdown: Best Director

Best Director is a tricky category with, like many awards bestowed at the Oscars, a questionable track record. Venerated filmmakers like Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Altman, for instance, never won the award. While it’s arguably impossible to objectively compare different works of art, Best Director is an especially elusive and subjective category that forces one to compare apples to oranges, especially with this year’s nominees.

By Landon Palmer on March 5, 2010 | View Comments

Oscar Breakdown: Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Oscar Breakdown: Best Actress in a Supporting Role

This year’s nominees in the Best Supporting Actress category run the gamut from a feisty lingerie-wearing mistress to a monstrous, abusive excuse for a mother, and while this category is usually pretty hard to predict, I’m thinking this year not so much. Here are the nominees for best actress in a supporting role.

By Lauren Flanagan on March 5, 2010 | View Comments

Oscar Breakdown: Best Original and Adapted Screenplays

Oscar Breakdown: Best Original and Adapted Screenplays

It’s Academy Awards time again, and even though we all know the awards are basically an irrelevant exercise in mutual masturbation it’s still fun to watch. This year sees a wide variety of films gain entry into Oscar history via nominations for Best Screenplay, Original and Adapted. Some deserve the honor, while others are based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire.

By Rob Hunter on March 4, 2010 | View Comments

Martin Scorsese: Precious Should Have Been 3D; Wait, What?

Martin Scorsese: Precious Should Have Been 3D; Wait, What?

Remember a little while back there was some rumbling about a remake of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver? I wrote that one up. I didn’t like the idea. But here comes a blip from the great director where he says he’d like to give 3D a try. Well then, what better vehicle than Taxi Driver. I of course would take it one step further and go for IMAX as well. It would seem Scorsese would disagree with me when it comes to a dramatic film using 3D technology.

By Robin Ruinsky on March 3, 2010 | View Comments

The 82nd Academy Award Nominations: Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek, District 9 Lead the Way!

The 82nd Academy Award Nominations: Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek, District 9 Lead the Way!

It is quite early in the morning, even here in the Central Time Zone. But so many of us in the movie world were up early, watching as Anne Hathaway unveiled the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards, which will take place 33 days from now.

By Neil Miller on February 2, 2010 | View Comments

The 67th Annual Golden Globes Winners: Avatar Takes Best Picture

The 67th Annual Golden Globes Winners: Avatar Takes Best Picture

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards are upon us. And while they are on live on ABC as of 8/7c, you may not be watching them. That’s okay, as I will updating our list with the winners as they are announced.

By Neil Miller on January 17, 2010 | View Comments

2010 Writers Guild Awards Nominees Skew Populist, As Well

2010 Writers Guild Awards Nominees Skew Populist, As Well

Put simply, it’s going to be a populist kind of year. Once again, the likes of Avatar and Star Trek, along with The Hangover, are hanging around during awards season.

By Neil Miller on January 11, 2010 | View Comments

Shouting Match: Was 2009 a Good or Bad Year for Movies?

Shouting Match: Was 2009 a Good or Bad Year for Movies?

Some years at the cineplex are just better than others. Which years those are can always be debated, hence the reason why FSR writer Paul Sileo and FSR’s resident devil’s advocate Josh Radde sat on their collective asses to hash out whether or not 2009 was particularly strong or notably weak.

By Josh Radde on January 9, 2010 | View Comments

Directors Guild Nominates Titans and Underdogs Alike

Directors Guild Nominates Titans and Underdogs Alike

The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for its 62nd Annual Awards today, honoring outstanding directorial achievement in feature films.

By Neil Miller on January 7, 2010 | View Comments

Online Film Critics Love Up The Hurt Locker, Basterds

Online Film Critics Love Up The Hurt Locker, Basterds

In the online world, our lives wouldn’t be complete without the embattled entity known as the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS). Which means this year’s awards season wouldn’t be complete without this list of winners.

By Neil Miller on January 6, 2010 | View Comments

Year in Review: The 10 Best Performances of 2009

Year in Review: The 10 Best Performances of 2009

Often “Best of” lists include a bunch of the Oscar bait roles that we hear about at the end of every year but in 2009 we had some great performances in big movies which sadly isn’t always the case. With this list I tried to balance the two opposing worlds of critical credibility and popularity by considering which roles stuck out in my mind most. This is what I came up with…

By Jorge Del Pinal on December 30, 2009 | View Comments

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards. But that’s not all!

By Neil Miller on December 15, 2009 | View Comments

Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 11.20.09

Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 11.20.09

Kevin Carr heads out to the movies this week, giving his take on New Moon, Planet 51, The Blind Side and Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire

By Kevin Carr on November 20, 2009 | View Comments

Fat Guys at the Movies Ep. 141 – Big Fat Moon

Fat Guys at the Movies Ep. 141 – Big Fat Moon

Neil squeals about Team Jacob in his review of the highly anticipated The Twilight Saga: New Moon while Kevin struts around the Magical Studio in the Sky with no shirt on, desperately hoping people will mistake him for Taylor Lautner. There’s also a bizarre discussion of where Somali Pirates might fit into one of this week’s movies… how does that all work? Listen and find out!

By Kevin Carr on November 20, 2009 | View Comments

‘Precious,’ ‘Serious’ Oscar Campaigns Ramp ‘Up’

‘Precious,’ ‘Serious’ Oscar Campaigns Ramp ‘Up’

With Awards Season now in full swing, it is time for studios to spend the money to get their movies into the hands of voters across Hollywood and the world. Up first, its time for some ‘For Your Consideration’ posters…

By Neil Miller on November 19, 2009 | View Comments