By Simon Miraudo August 1, 2014 God is a woman. Well, she is now anyway. In Luc Besson‘s Lucy, Scarlett Johansson goes from doe-eyed mafia pawn to all-powerful superbeing, and all it took was accidentally absorbing the intellect-enhancing drug placed beside her abdomen by a Korean cartel. The rest of us, meanwhile, have to choke […]
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The Best Films of 2014 (So Far)
June 25, 2014 
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By Simon Miraudo June 25, 2014 The inexorable march of time continues ever forward, a crushing reminder our too brief, finite existence. Or, to be less of a ‘von Trier’ about it: Can you believe it’s almost July? The first six months of 2014 are behind us, and what do we have to show for […]
Continue readingHear this year’s Oscar nominated songs (including the really weird one)
January 17, 2014 1 Comment
The Best Original Song category is always good value for those who enjoy being bewildered by the Academy Awards. Whether the category has three separate songs from the one film (see: 2007 and Enchanted) or just two nominees in a battle to the death (2011’s non-showdown between ‘Man or Muppet’ and, erm, ‘Real in Rio’), there’s […]
Continue readingOS, I love you – Her review
January 14, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo January 14, 2014 If the romantic feelings we attribute to the heart actually exist in a pocket of the brain, might those same feelings arise in a sentient, lovelorn computer? Spike Jonze‘s hopelessly human Her – the first of his features on which he holds a sole screenwriting credit – wonders as […]
Continue reading’12 Years A Slave’ and ‘American Hustle’ lead the Golden Globe nominees
December 13, 2013 0 Comments
12 Years A Slave and American Hustle will go into the 71st Golden Globe Awards as the hot favourites to beat in their respective categories of Drama and Comedy. Olivia Wilde, Aziz Ansari, and Zoe Saldana announced the nominees in Los Angeles ahead of the upcoming 2014 broadcast, set to be hosted by Tina Fey […]
Continue readingScarlett Johansson’s voice-only role in ‘Her’ ineligible for a Golden Globe nomination
November 28, 2013 0 Comments
The Golden Globe nominees will be announced in just a few weeks, but we already know one name that won’t be on the ballot. According to Variety, Scarlett Johansson’s voice-only performance in Spike Jonze’s Her has been deemed ineligible for nomination. In the offbeat romance, her vocal chords bring life to the sentient operating system, Samantha, that Joaquin Phoenix’s […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Her
August 9, 2013 0 Comments
Spike Jonze is back with a melancholy new film: Her. The trailer for his latest features Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely divorcee who falls in love with the operating system of his computer (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). It’s Jonze’s first big-screen effort since 2009’s Where the Wild Things Are, though it recalls more heavily his […]
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