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This year's hosts, Anne Hathaway and James Franco were all right (how many dresses did Hathaway HAVE?), but the nominations excited me the most. I enjoyed seeing actor veteran, Kirk Douglas, crackin' a few jokes as he was on stage as he was truly brillant. "You know..." Here's all the winners of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony! Congratulations to all the winners! Are you happy with the

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Here's the nominations list in its entirety. I'm excited to see the outcomes of this year's ceremony! What are your personal favorites to win in whichever category? Any films you feel like they ruled out unfairly or overlooked? Either way, these are the official nominations of the 83rd Academy Awards: BEST PICTURE 127 Hours Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids Are All Right The

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"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies." Release Date: October 1, 2010 Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer Director: David Fincher Writer: Aaron Sorkin MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug and alcohol use and language. Trailer Official Movie Website I remember the time I saw the first

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"The game has changed." Release Date: December 17, 2010 Starring: Jeff Bridges, Garret Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett, Michael Sheen, Bruce Boxleitner Director: Joseph Kosinski Writers: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz MPAA Rating: Rated PG for sequences of sci-fi action violence and brief mild language. Trailer Official Website Disney's 'Tron: Legacy' is a fluorescent-light-filled orgy

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Release Date: November 24, 2010 Starring (Voice Overs): Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey, Jeffrey Tambor Director: Nathan Greno, Bryon Howard Writer: Dan Fogelman Trailer Official Website Disney's 'Tangled' is a 2010 computer-animated film loosely based on the Grimm Brother's fairy tale, 'Rapunzel.' When I say computer-animated, that doesn't mean it's 

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AKA: 'Les Parapluies de Cherbourg' Release Date: February 19, 1964 (France); December 16, 1964 (USA) Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mirielle Perrey Director: Jacques Demy Music: Michel Legrand Writer: Jacques Demy Part 1 on Youtube (English Subtitles Available) This is one of my favorite movies of all time. OF ALL TIME. (Where's Kanye

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"There was a time when humans and dragons were one." Release Date: (Japan) July 29, 2006; (USA) August 13, 2010 Starring (English Voice Actors): Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Matt Levin, Cheech Marin, Blaire Restaneo, Marishka Hargitay Director: Goro Miyazaki Writer: Ursula K. Le Guin (Novels); Goro Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa (Screenplay) MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some violent images.

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"Strangers shouldn't talk to little girls." Release Date: January 2005 (Sundance); April 14, 2006 (Limited) Starring: Ellen Page, Patrick Wilson, Sandra Oh Director: David Slade Writer: Brian Nelson MPAA Rating: Rated R for disturbing violent and aberrant sexual content involving a teen, and for language. Trailer Once again, children can be f*cking terrifying. 'Hard Candy' is a

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Release Date: January 11, 2008 (USA) Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Edgar Vivar Director: Juan Antonio Bayona Writer: Sergio G. Sanchez MPAA Rating: Rated R for some disturbing content Trailer Official Movie Website I'm back! I'm not dead! Halloween and its horrifying ghouls have not gotten to me yet! Sorry for the long wait on my next entry. In light of Halloween,

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Release Date: September 17, 2010 Starring: Chris Messina, Jenny O'Hara, Bokeem Woodbine, Bojana Novakovic, Geoffrey Arend, Jacob Vargas, Logan Marshall-Green Director: John Erick Dowdle Writer: M. Night Shyamalan (Story) and Brian Nelson (Screenplay) MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for violence and disturbing images, thematic material and some language, including sexual references. Trailer

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Release Date: December 19, 1961 Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Karen Balkin Director: William Wyler Writer: Lillian Hellman (Play and screen adaptation) MPAA Rating: Not Rated Part One of 'The Children's Hour' 'The Children's Hour' and its core topic is one that resonates into present society's issue of homosexuality and homophobia. This black and

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Release Date: (In Argentina as 'Diarios de motocicleta') July 29, 2004;(US/Sundance) January 15, 2004 Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna Director: Walter Salles MPAA Rating: Rated R for language Trailer Official Movie Website Note: I am neither a lover or hater of Che Guevara. Do not assume anything about my political views; this entry is about a movie. Everyone has come across

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Release Date (Limited): November 7, 2008 Starring: Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Stewart Head, Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman, Bill Moseley, Ogre, Terrence Zdunich Director: Darren Lynn Bousman MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, language, some drug and sexual content Trailer Official Movie Website I'm gonna say this right away: DO NOT SEE 2010'S 'REPO MEN' with

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Release Date: Sundance: January 17, 2009                          Wide: August 7, 2009 Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Chloe Moretz, Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Gray Gubler Director: Marc Webb MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for sexual material and language Trailer Official Movie Website I have not met anyone who has told me they do not like '(500) Days of Summer.' I am sure the ones

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Release Date: January 8, 2010 Starring: Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman Director: Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong bloody violence, language, and brief nudity Trailer Official Movie Website First, I just want to bring up that I have 21 reviews (including this one) up on my blog now. I am now on the personal

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Theater Release Date: May 14, 2010 DVD Release Date: September 14, 2010 Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Egan, Franco Nero, Gael García Bernal Director: Gary Winick MPAA Rating: PG for brief rude behavior, some language and incidental smoking Trailer Official Movie Website I saw 'Letters to Juliet' a few weeks or so after it came out. My blog was not up and running

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Release Date (Limited): February 8, 2008 Starring: Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Gleeson, Clemence Posey Director: Martin McDonagh MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong bloody violence, persuasive language and some drug use. Trailer (WARNING: Strong Language) 'In Bruges' is a dark comedy. Just bluntly stating, it's a dark-toned movie with comedy that is expressed through the quick-witted

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Release Date: August 13, 2010 (USA) Starring: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anna Kendrick, Ellen Wong, Mae Whitman, Brandon Routh, Chris Evans, Kieran Culkin Director: Edgar Wright MPAA Rating: PG-13 for stylized violence, sexual content, language, and drug references. I'm gonna say this more than once, but: That was a pretty damn good movie. 'Scott Pilgrim' is a 2010 film based on

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Release Date: April 16, 2010 Starring: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloe Moretz, Nicolas Cage Director: Matthew Vaughn MPAA Rating: R for violence, gore, language, and sexual content. Not for young kiddies unless you are Chloe Moretz 'Kick-Ass' is a 2010 film based on the 2008 comic books of the same name. The story surrounds the life of awkward teenager,

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No doubt you've heard of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' If you do not know the title, you only need to look at the film's iconic image of lucious red lips, occasionally seating a Tim Curry transvestite, to make sense of what I'm talking about. 'Picture Show' is known as a "cult film" and there are several meanings to what a cult film can be. Some are films that are so terribly bad that they

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We've all seen the creepy commercials with the creepy-ass family, "the Wrightnows," and the creepy-ass dad who promotes the not-so creepy-ass business known as 'Netflix.' Youtube the videos if you have not seen them. I can't help but wonder how many people he held up at gunpoint until they joined Netflix. To replace the creepy father figure, I am here to tell you the pros of Netflix and to

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I have not written anything for a while; it feels really nice to be writing again.Three days ago, I watched two newer films. One was tolerable, the other I don't ever want to watch again.Let's begin with 2010's 'The Wolfman.''The Wolfman' centers on exactly what the title says: a wolfman. Mindblown yet?'Wolfman' stars Benecio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, and Hugo Weaving.Del Toro plays

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'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' is a 2006 film and is based on a novel of the same name. It is actually a German film, but the spoken language is English. It is Rated R for disturbing imagery, violence, sexuality, and nudity so it's not for the kiddies. I state this in case you didn't catch the obvious "MURDERER" part of the title. 'Perfume' follows the sad, yet disturbing life of

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Some of the most internationally known anime films come from the genius mind of Hayao Miyazaki. Even those who are not die-hard anime fanatics may have at least come across one or two of his films in some way.2001's 'Spirited Away' won Best Animated Film in the Academy Awards. It is also the highest-grossing film in Japanese history (it even beat out 'Titanic' for the Japanese box-office).Still

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'Willard' is a 2003 remake of the 1971 film of the same name about a social misfit who lives with his mother in a worn out mansion. Willard (Crispin Glover) works as a clerk for a man named Mr. Martin (R. Lee Ermey) who constantly picks on Willard. Due to Willard's reluctant nature, he holds his tongue and takes the abuse.Willard eventually befriends hundreds of rats in his house, including his

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'Inception' is a newly released 2010 movie directed by Christopher Nolan ('Batman Begins,' 'The Dark Knight,' 'Memento')Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is highly skilled at the art and process of stealing another person's valuable secrets and ideas from their subconscious while in the dream state, or "extraction."Cobb's talent is highly valuable (and illegal) and his 'dream team' includes a man

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Kevin Spacey= AmazingComing soon.I thought it'd be cool to do featured actors/actresses movie reviews from time to time and show some of their movies that are well-known along with at least one unknown one.Kevin friggen awesome Spacey will be the first. 'Moon,' 'The Usual Suspects,' and 'Se7en' will be the three.

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'Penelope' is a 2006 modern fairy tale film set in London. Penelope Wilhern (Christina Ricci) is just like any other aristocratic young woman.Her mother, Jessica Wilhern (Catherine O'Hara) is just like any other aristocratic mother who wants to see their daughter get married to the perfect aristocratic man and have aristocratic kids together and be aristocrats forever.Rich or not, it seems

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This is a review, but honestly, it is more about how I came to write this blog than anything. 'Julie & Julia' is a 2009 film centering around two women's stories. The most notable of the two is the cooking legend, Julia Child and the other, a formerly unpublished, aspiring author, Julie Powell.Two different time frames and yet their lives are now entwined when Julie Powell decides to create a

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In case you guys are wondering, no, I don't watch movies every hour of my life. Other than 'Predators,' I watched these movies a long time ago and have reviewed just now.So some of these movie reviews that I post don't necessarily mean that I just watched them a few hours ago. Just a heads up.This is the first of my 'Little Quickies' reviews. I don't have time to review every single movie I watch

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Despite my title, I will still point out the positives of the film, but that will not take long.When watching it, I had to have some help from my sister, who loves the books (not obsessively, please don't think badly of her haha) to fill out the blanks for my un-Twilighted head. I only have very little knowledge of the first book, which I actually did read when I was given the bookset as a

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Terry Gilliam. Gilliam, Gilliam, Gilliam....wow, where do I start with his film?Some of you may not be familiar with his name. He was one of the famous men from the British comic group known as 'Monty Python.' No doubt you've heard of them? Come on...'Monty Python and the Holy Grail?' Perhaps 'Life of Brian?'Well, anyways, Gilliam has since directed several films after the disinegration of the

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This little critic is reviewing a little known movie titled 'Toy Story 3.' Perhaps you've heard of it?I know, I know. This came out almost a month ago. Why make a review now? Honestly, I hate crowds and avoid going to the theater the first few weeks when a movie comes out and I just started this blog the day before yesterday.Right now, I'm trying to forget about the World Cup right now (sheer

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'Departures' is a 2008 Japanese movie that follows the story of a now out-of-work cello player, Daigo Kobayashi.After the disintegration of his orchestra, Daigo decides to leave Tokyo with his wife, Mika Kobayashi, and live in the childhood home his deceased mother left him in Yamagata.Once there, Daigo looks for a job and sees an ad from the NK Agency with high pay, no expertise needed, and "

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This little critic watched the movie. This little critic was not happy.'The Last Airbender' follows the story of a young 12-year old monk known as Aang who is found frozen in an iceberg by two Southern Water Tribe siblings named Katara and her brother, Sokka. We learn that he is not only the last Airbender in the world (hence the title, duh), but we also learn that he is the Avatar, the only

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