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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2012 was a banner year for movies. From massive blockbusters to highly anticipated adaptations – and movies that came out of nowhere – the year treated audiences with a surprisingly strong selection in practically every genre. As in any year, not every film delivered (ask Taylor Kitsch), but also, a few stand out among the rest. Here are the top ten best movies of 2012:
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Tense. Thrilling. Entertaining. Serious. Funny. Ben Affleck has a legitimate Oscar contender on his hands in the form of Argo, a movie that is not only his most accessible film but also his best suited to appeal to Oscar voters. About a so-absurd-it-has-to-be-real CIA mission to extract six American hostages from Iran, Argo is at once timely and nail-bitingly fun.
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The well-reviewed Ben Affleck drama The Company Men is now on DVD. We’ve reviewed the movie and are also giving away the DVD to one lucky winner.
In The Company Men, Affleck delivers another nuanced and relatable performance as a rising hotshot who suddenly finds himself fired from the job he thought was secure. As the company undergoes an operational overhaul many other employees are let go, particularly some of the company’s eldest leaders. Faced with a nearly nonexistent job market, Affleck and the others must find a way to overcome their grim situation and get back on their feet.
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Fifteen years after Heat and four years after The Departed, Ben Affleck looks to stamp his place in crime fiction with a new, gritty action-drama set on the streets of Boston. The Town, about a group of increasingly violent bank robbers, is the opening act for awards season.
Affleck stars as Doug MacRay, the leader of a sophisticated band of young men from the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston that steals money from armored cars and banks. In their latest heist, his best friend James Coughlin (Jeremy Renner) decides to take the bank’s assistant manager hostage. After the heist is over, worried that the woman (Rebecca Hall) could identify them later on, Doug decides to get to know her – and ends up falling for her. Her name is Claire and they hit it off immediately. Doug realizes that his life of crime may not be worth it, but getting out of Charlestown isn’t as easy as it seems. Furthermore, the FBI, led by Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm), is hot on his tail.
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The trailer for Ben Affleck’s newest project, The Town, premiered this week setting the blogosphere aflutter with speculation that the film may bolster the thesp’s floundering career. The Town, set to bow in September, could be the shot in the arm that Affleck needs after years of films that are best enjoyed mid-sleep on an airplane. It’s a strange way to talk about an actor who exploded onto the scene with an Oscar winning script (Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting) and cult classics like Dazed and Confused, Mallrats, and Dogma.
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