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Oscar predictions 2013: Calling the visual crafts awards
Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. He looked at the shorts categories here and the sound races here. Now he looks...Tags: Les Miserables (movie), Snow White and the Huntsman (movie), Politics, Anna Karenina (movie), Movies
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'Django Unchained' is Tarantino, undisciplined ★★
In "Django Unchained," which has its moments of devilish glee in and among dubious wallows in numbing slaughter, writer-director-trash compactor Quentin Tarantino delivers a mashup of several hundred of his favorite movies, all hanging, like barnacles,...
Tags: Kerry Washington, Russ Tamblyn, Franco Nero, Movies, Pulp Fiction (movie)
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Clothes that tell stories
Los Angeles TimesThe year 2012 was full of films that captured the essence of memorable time periods through costume. Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" was brought to life by designer Joanna Johnston's stovepipe hats and wool shawls, for instance. And what would the film "Anna...Tags: Snow White and the Huntsman (movie), Arts and Culture, Anna Karenina (movie), Movies, The Hunger Games (movie)
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Critic's Notebook: Movie violence must not be stopped
I abhor violence. As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict. From the terrifyingly premeditated to the unfortunately accidental, those images still have the...
Tags: Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Liam Neeson, Killers (movie), Movies
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Larry Zanoff's aim: Teach actors to bear arms for the film's sake
For Larry Zanoff, the armorer who lent Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" its firepower, fake blood can be a serious occupational hazard. "The gun gets splattered with fake blood," he said. "Now it's all gummed up; it doesn't want to work anymore....
Tags: Celebrities, Quentin Tarantino, Gangster Squad (movie), Arts and Culture, Iron Man 2 (movie)
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The Sunday Conversation: Violence in entertainment has long history, film expert says
Elizabeth Daley, a former producer, has served as dean of USC's School of Cinematic Arts for more than 20 years. She's also the founder and executive director of the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy, which develops educational programs and conducts...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Movies, Virginia Tech, Gaming Industry
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Database catalogs movie firearms
This sturdy Austrian had supporting roles in the recent action movies "Skyfall" and "Zero Dark Thirty," the TV western "Justified" and the military video game "Medal of Honor: Warfighter." The ubiquitous performer — actually a semiautomatic pistol...Tags: Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Korean War (1950-1953), The Matrix (movie), University of California, Santa Barbara, Jamie Foxx
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First Step May Be Realizing We're In Love With Violence
The Hartford CourantHow can we make sure that violence always feels real — truly real — to us? This is the question that underlies so many of the questions we are asking about violence today in the aftermath of the horror of Newtown. When we ask, "Are violent...Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Pakistan, Wethersfield, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Weinstein Co. asks toymaker to discontinue 'Django' action figures
Re-imagining the slave narrative should be left to the professionals. That was the word Friday when the Weinstein Co. announced that it has asked toymaker NECA to discontinue the "Django Unchained" action figure dolls after receiving complaints that the...Tags: Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt
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The 'Argo' factor in this year's Oscar fest
In the week since Oscar nominations were announced, we've sat through two award shows — the Critics' Choice Awards, thrown by a group of junketeers who, according to Anne Hathaway at least, can't even spell the names of their winners right, and...Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Argo (movie), Movies, Voting, Rupert Murdoch
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Now for real insight into Oscars -- by the guilds
The academy liked "Argo," but not its director, Ben Affleck. The Directors Guild of America nominated Affleck, but couldn't find room for "Silver Linings Playbook" auteur David O. Russell, who, naturally, received an Oscar nomination for direction....Tags: Celebrities, Shea Whigham, Quentin Tarantino, Screen Actors Guild, Movies
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SAG Awards 2013: Tommy Lee Jones wins best supporting actor
Tommy Lee Jones won the SAG Award for male actor in a supporting role Sunday night for playing the outspoken Pennsylvania congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg's historical drama "Lincoln." Jones was not in attendance to receive the award,...Tags: Celebrities, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild, Alan Arkin, Nicole Kidman
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