source: oscars.org The explosive war drama The Hurt Locker has won Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards, trumping James Cameron‘s sci-fi epic Avatar and eight other films that, frankly, never even had a chance. The film now holds the dubious distinction of being the lowest grossing film to ever win Best Picture, having taken […]
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And the Academy Award goes to … Join us as we live-blog the Oscars!
March 7, 2010 
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It’s Oscar day! The moment when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hand out their annual statuettes and recognise the very best in filmmaking! Or so we hope… We’ll be live-blogging the results all morning right here! You can also follow me on Twitter and see me snarkily comment on all the undeserving […]
Continue readingThe Oscar season that was…
March 5, 2010 0 Comments
Is there anything else to say? We’ve been following the Oscar trail for almost 6 months, and we are literally days away from learning what the Academy has chosen as their favourite films and performances of the past year. Join us as we take a look back on the Oscar season that was… It all […]
Continue readingOscar fallout – the biggest snubs and shocks of this year’s nominees!
February 3, 2010 7 Comments
“Dear Hollywood. You’re great. From Hollywood.”We can only assume that these six words were etched upon the envelope containing the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards. Yep, the Oscars are the most self-congratulatory event on the Hollywood calendar. But you know what? I love ‘em. I love ‘em love ‘em love ‘em. I love evaluating […]
Continue readingR.I.P. Miramax
January 29, 2010 0 Comments
source: variety.com The inevitable has come to pass. Miramax Films is no more. The specialty label’s New York and Los Angeles offices have closed their doors for good, leaving 80 staff members jobless and six films in distribution limbo. Walt Disney Studios, who acquired the company in 1993, claim that Miramax will now consolidate its […]
Continue readingOscar wishlist! What would YOU like to see nominated?
January 28, 2010 4 Comments
The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards will be announced in Los Angeles next Tuesday at 5:30AM (Tuesday night in Australia) by a very tired Anne Hathaway. No doubt there will be the requisite number of surprises and overwhelming disappointments that come with every Oscar nomination announcement. (Seriously, The Reader for Best Picture!) I considered […]
Continue readingThe Hurt Locker wins Best Picture at PGA
January 25, 2010 1 Comment
source: producersguild.org Avatar doesn’t have the Oscar race all wrapped up quite yet. Kathryn Bigelow‘s Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker has been named Best Picture by the Producers Guild of America. The winner of the PGA is one of the strongest precursors of the Oscar season, having correlated with the Academy Awards’ Best Picture […]
Continue readingInglourious Basterds triumphs at SAG awards
January 24, 2010 0 Comments
source: sag.org Quentin Tarantino’s motley crew of Inglourious Basterds took the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards yesterday. The films’ cast, including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent and, hilariously, Mike Myers, were awarded Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock received Outstanding Actor and Actress […]
Continue readingGolden Globe winners!
January 18, 2010 1 Comment
source: goldenglobes.org Today we will be live-blogging the results of the 67th Golden Globe Awards. Did Avatar win big? Did Mo’Nique or Christoph Waltz feign surprise at their victory? Did Michael Haneke take to the stage and lecture the audience on their participation in the fetishisation of violence? Read on to find out! BEST FILM […]
Continue readingHow are the Oscar favourites faring on the award circuit?
January 5, 2010 0 Comments
Over the past two months, the American film critic guilds have been going awards-crazy, bestowing accolade after accolade upon the best films of 2009. The sad fact is that it’s hard to care about every individual guild. I mean, do those of us in Australia really care who the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named […]
Continue readingThe 10 best films of 2009!
December 16, 2009 12 Comments
The Best Films of 2009. By Simon Miraudo We made it everyone! 2009 (in fact, the entire decade) is coming to a close – and right on schedule! We’ve shared some wonderful moments together this year: we couldn’t move for quality Australian films, long-anticipated book adaptations finally reached the big screen, and one micro-budget horror […]
Continue readingTarantino’s pride – Inglourious Basterds DVD review
December 15, 2009 15 Comments
Inglourious Basterds – Starring Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent and Christoph Waltz. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. The following is not a formal review, but instead a casual conversation about what I believe to be the best film of 2009. That being said, I have still awarded it 5/5. Go figure. Please […]
Continue readingWho is the greatest movie villain of all time?
September 22, 2009 27 Comments
We’re calling you out Quickflixers! We want to know who the GREATEST MOVIE VILLAIN is of all-time! We love ’em and love to hate ’em! Please share with us your favourites! There is no drama without conflict; therefore, there are no heroes without villains. Who would care about Clarice Starling if she didn’t have to […]
Continue readingChristoph Waltz to play villain in The Green Hornet!
September 15, 2009 0 Comments
source: deadline.com Nikke Finke claims that Christoph Waltz is set to replace Nicolas Cage as the villain in Michel Gondry‘s vigilante flick The Green Hornet. UPDATE: Variety have confirmed it! Great success! Waltz became the breakout star of the year by playing the villainous ‘Jew Hunter’ Col. Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds. That’s […]
Continue readingA war movie about war and movies – Inglourious Basterds review
August 18, 2009 2 Comments
Inglourious Basterds – Starring Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent and Christoph Waltz. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Does Inglourious Basterds attempt to erase every preconceived notion of wartime bravery? Does it tear page after page from the history books (like so many Nazi scalps) and hurl them into the fireplace with reckless […]
Continue readingTarantino’s 20 favourite films!
August 17, 2009 0 Comments
source: youtube.com Quentin Tarantino has compiled a list of his 20 favourite films of the past 17 years. He has selected films exclusively made between 1992 and 2009. Tarantino has picked the year 1992 as the boundary as it was the year his first feature film Reservoir Dogs hit cinemas. Therefore, the list acts as […]
Continue readingBrand-scalping new Inglourious Basterds trailer
June 23, 2009 1 Comment
source: traileraddict.com A brand new trailer for Quentin Tarantino‘s Nazi-scalping-smorgasbord Inglourious Basterds has debuted online. It gives us a bigger glimpse of the film’s cinema-set finale and Mike Myers, oddly. Despite the film’s mostly tepid reception at Cannes, it’s hard not to get excited beyond belief for Tarantino’s latest. Check out the trailer and let […]
Continue readingNew clips from Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
May 26, 2009 2 Comments
source: traileraddict.com A batch of new clips from Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming Nazi-scalping epic Inglourious Basterds have debuted online, just in time to capitalise on the film’s Cannes victory. Tarantino debuted the not-quite-final cut of his long gestating film to a divided audience at the Cannes Film Festival last week. Reviews ranged from the rapturous (“a […]
Continue readingInglourious Basterds prequel?
May 12, 2009 2 Comments
source: nytimes.com Quentin Tarantino has told the New York Times that he has enough material for a prequel to his upcoming World War 2 film Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino’s self-proclaimed misspelled masterpiece is set to debut at Cannes this month after almost a decade of gestation in the auteur’s cavernous imagination. The film tells the story […]
Continue readingCheck out Mike Myers in Inglourious Basterds
April 16, 2009 0 Comments
source: traileraddict.com Quentin Tarantino guest-mentored on American Idol this week, for reasons we will never fully understand. There is an upside though – the manic director gave audiences a short preview of his upcoming flick Inglourious Basterds.The footage isn’t particularly revealing, although it does give us our first look at Mike Myers as an English […]
Continue readingTarantino’s Inglourious Basterds to debut at Cannes
April 3, 2009 0 Comments
source: joblo.com Quentin Tarantino‘s Nazi-hunter flick Inglourious Basterds is set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May, as was promised by the auteur himself in 2008. Although The Weinstein Company and Universal are yet to make an official statement, Tarantino has confirmed the film will be ready in time for the legendary French […]
Continue readingGlorious new trailer for Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
February 12, 2009 2 Comments
source: traileraddict.com The trailer for Quentin Tarantino‘s spectacularly hardcore Nazi-hunter flick Inglourious Basterds has debuted online, giving us something to look forward to in the post-Watchmen hellscape that is the rest of 2009. Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organises a group of Jewish American soldiers known as “The Basterds” to spread fear throughout the Third […]
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