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Oscar Predictions: Best Actor

  By Sue Murphy | November 28, 2011 - 12:02 pm | Movies & TV
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Oscar Predictions: Best Actor*   I write this post today in the knowledge that the Academy has yet again made a dumbfounding decision to leave Senna out of the long list for nominations for Best Documentary ahead of next year’s ceremony. With this in mind, it leads me to believe there will be no real surprises from the Awards next year. This has been stressed before, this blog series is to prove just how predictable, and on occasion ridiculously wrong, the Academy can be and this week I barely needed to set that up. They have, in one fell swoop, alienated film lovers the world over by leaving out possibly one of the finest documentaries I have ever seen. To twist the knife in further, they will no doubt invent some outlandish rule as to why this has happened “oh well, we couldn’t include that on the nomination list, because, … There’s more →

Movie Review: Moneyball

  By Tony McD | November 25, 2011 - 3:00 pm | The Culch
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Baseball. America’s National Pastime, and a complete mystery to everybody else (ok, ok, apart from some Cubans and some Japanese). So here’s a two-hour film about it: Enjoy! Moneyball tells the story of Oakland Athletics general manager Bill Beane, and how he used statistical analysis and a value-for-money approach to assemble a team of relative misfits that went on the longest unbeaten run in the history of professional baseball. Bear with me, I promise there’s interesting stuff ahead. Beane (Brad Pitt) has just had a hugely successful year with the A’s but, with the smallest budget of any Major League Baseball team, all of his best players jump ship for bigger, better contracts. Tasked to replace them, he ends up looking for players at the Cleveland Indians and stumbles upon an advisor to his Indians counterpart whose role he can’t quite figure out. This advisor has a name, Peter Brand … There’s more →

Ad Nauseam: Konnichiwa Celebrities!

  By Éilish Burke | September 9, 2010 - 8:13 am | Adverts, The Culch
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The new Alfa Romeo ad for their Giulietta model, starring the ever-fabulous Uma Thurman brought this to mind: In the film Lost in Translation Bill Murray is an ever-so-slightly-washed-up actor visiting Japan, a country in which his stock is still high, to make a commercial for the premium whiskey brand Suntory. I thought this was a made-up product until I discovered a certain ever-so-slightly-washed-up actor who has been stumbling around in Suntory ads, crystal tumbler in hand, for quite a while.

On The QT - Part NEIN! (Inglourious Basterds Review)

  By Maxi Cane | August 13, 2009 - 1:43 am | Featured Post, Movies & TV, On The QT, The Culch
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First off, apologies for bothering you with another On the QT installment in 24 hours, but it was quite a surprise for me to get the invite to the first Irish screening of the long awaited next film by Quentin tonight (last night by the time I hit publish). With huge thanks to Movies.ie, Rick and the Savoy, even if they did mess up my posting schedule for this series. I was planning on waiting like everyone else to see the movie on the official release date, but how could I turn it down? So let’s get started. What’s your current favourite Tarantino flick? Pulp Fiction? Reservoir Dogs? Kill Bill, Vol 2? Well whatever it is, it’s going to have to be happy with second place from now on. Now it’s easy for a Tarantino nut like myself to get swept up in the press hype of a movie. It’s … There’s more →