February 9, 2012

The Artist, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Lead 2012 BAFTA Award Nominations

by Rebecca Pahle | Published Jan. 17, 2012

Though Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has been notably absent from much of the awards season hoopla—it's done well in various critics groups' awards but received no SAG, PGA, DGA, WGA or Golden Globe nominations—the spy drama's dry spell may now be over. Its 11 nominations in this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, announced today, place it on the top of the heap; the only film to receive more nominations is The Artist, with 12. (No comments yet)

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The Artist Comes Out on Top at the Golden Globes

by Rebecca Pahle
At last night's Golden Globes, it was Oscar frontrunner The Artist that came out on top, winning three awards, including Best Picture—Comedy or Musical. Still, it's probably best to keep the film's name written in pencil on your Oscar ballot for now; though it was one of only two films to win multiple awards, the winner in the Best Picture—Drama category (this year, The Descendants) historically has a better chance at victory come Oscar night. Additionally, The Artist missed out in both the Best Screenplay and Best Director categories, in which Midnight in Paris and Hugo, respectively, walked away with the gold. (No comments yet)

It’s Alive!: The Best in Performance Capture

by Kyle Rupprecht
Performance capture: It’s the wave of the future. This fascinating computer technology allows ordinary human actors to transform themselves into creatures or otherworldly characters that, just 15 years ago, would have been impossible to imagine. With the latest performance capture film, Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated 3-D epic The Adventures of Tintin, hitting theaters today, MM thought it a perfect time to take a look back at our six favorite performances achieved through this ever-evolving technology. (1 comment)

Movie Journalists: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

by Rebecca Pahle
In David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, out in theaters today, Daniel Craig plays journalist Mikael Blomkvist; those who've seen the trailer (or read the book, or seen Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s earlier film adaptation) know that he gets up to some stuff over the course of the film that they probably didn’t prepare him for in journalism school. In honor of the cinematic journalists—some good at what they do, some, er, not—from years past, MM presents our retrospective of movie journalists: The good, the bad and the ugly.
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The Help Leads the Pack with Four SAG Awards Noms

by Rebecca Pahle
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) today announced the nominees for the 18th Annual SAG Awards, the only major awards given to actors where the nominees and winners are chosen by—wait for it—actual actors, in this case members of SAG. Coming out on top with four nominations was The Help, while The Artist—which has stepped up as an Oscar frontrunner after being named the year’s best film by the Boston Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Online and Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association—came in second with three nominations. (No comments yet)

Best Cinematic Little Siblings (Just Be Glad They’re Not Yours)

by Rebecca Pahle
In David Gordon Green's The Sitter, out in theaters today, Noah Griffith (Jonah Hill) finds that buying cocaine for his girlfriend's party is made exponentially more difficult when he's babysitting three children at the same time. While it's possible for children in movies to be portrayed as adorable and innocent, it's usually more dramatic—and funnier—for them to be inveterate troublemakers. And, as any older sibling knows, no one causes more trouble than a little brother or sister. With that in mind, MM presents our list of five great movie little siblings. (No comments yet)

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