The FilmJabber Movie Blog

We had a chance to sit down with Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writers of a little indie film known as The Hangover and the writers and directors of the new movie 21 & Over (in theaters March 1, 2013), which can best be described as a college-aged version of… The Hangover.

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Will today be Argo‘s day to shine? Will Steven Spielberg be rewarded Best Director by default? Will Jessica Chastain win Best Actress, or will Emmanuelle Riva swoop in for an upset? Here are my predictions for the 85th Academy Awards – which 2012 movies will take home Oscar gold?

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Here are my predictions and analyses for the 85th Annual Academy Awards in all categories except the shorts. This write-up has nothing to do with my actual opinions of how good the various films are. This is the Oscars, after all.

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Selena Gomez may have been a Disney princess, but she isn’t anymore. The off-and-on Bieber bombshell stars in the clearly R-rated crime thriller Spring Breakers, alongside Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine and a very sleazy looking James Franco, which at the very least looks like a steamy and deranged film.

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The Academy Awards separates its acting categories by sex and screen time. The Golden Globes goes as far as to separate them by genre. I say screw that. Here are the 20 best performances of 2012, regardless of sex, genre or species.

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My thought is if you don’t want to break so many damn cameras, extract yourself from protests where you’re going up against Israeli soldiers. In 5 Broken Cameras, a nominee for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, filmmakers Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi provide an intimate look at what it’s like to be a Palestinian on the front lines of Israeli settlement expansion. They break five cameras in the process.

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Two high school friends get their pal Jeff Chang drunk on his 21st birthday and spend the rest of the night trying to get him home in time for a big interview the next morning in 21 & Over, the latest comedy from the writers of The Hangover.

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Football season is over, but the sport gets one last reprieve before the long slog to August: Undefeated, the Oscar-winning documentary about an underfunded high school football team, is now on DVD and Netflix. Entertaining and insightful, Undefeated is well worth the price of admission

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Michael Mann’s The Insider withstands the test of time, and yet few have experienced this great movie. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture back in 1999, the Al Pacino/Russell Crowe-starring movie earned only $29 million against a budget of $90 million. But money isn’t everything, right?

Wait, it is? Damn.

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The Sessions was one of the best movies of 2012, but is the Blu-ray any good?

Helen Hunt earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as a sex surrogate in the movie, which is about the true story of paralyzed writer Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes) attempting to pop his cherry.

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The curse of the obsessive movie critic strikes again. Despite warnings and outright cautions and having ignored the telltale signs, I gave in to morbid curiosity, and morbid curiosity had its way to me. Deadfall, the aimless thriller that has recently clawed its way onto DVD, is just that: aimless. And pointless. And barely worth the words in this movie review.

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Is Skyfall the best James Bond movie ever? I’d argue no, but it’s a good argument to have. There are merits to such a question – Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) is without question the most accomplished and legitimate director to ever take the reigns of the franchise, and he delivers a slick and beautifully crafted film – but there are also understandable criticisms.

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