The (Pod) Casting Couch – Lincoln

Looking for a film podcast to whisper sweet cinematic nothings in your ear? Only one features Quickflix critics Simon Miraudo and Andrew Williams, as well as reviewers Shannon Harvey, and Laura Hewison. That’d be The (Pod) Casting Couch, where each week the latest releases are analysed within an inch of their life, outrageous digressions are indulged, and flights of […]

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Steven Spielberg is Jury President of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival

Steven Spielberg may not have taken home a Best Director Oscar for Lincoln, but he has just been named the Jury President for the 66th Cannes Film Festival, and that’s a pretty good consolation prize. The buzz was the title would be given to a prominent American filmmaker this year after Italian director Nanni Moretti held […]

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Argo wins Best Picture, Life of Pi takes Best Director at 85th Academy Awards

Ben Affleck’s Argo defied decades of Oscar history to win Best Picture at the 85th Academy Awards, despite its helmer not being nominated for Best Director. In a teary speech, Affleck made note of his miraculous Hollywood comeback after years left out in the cold. Tonight, he’s the toast of the town. Argo scored two other prizes at […]

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Quickflix live-blogs the 2013 Academy Awards

By Simon Miraudo The 85th Academy Awards are upon us! Host Seth MacFarlane is set to skewer the year in movies, and we are ready to do the same to him in our 2013 Oscar Live-Blog. Or, maybe he’ll do a good job. Hey, anything is possible on Hollywood’s night of nights! The big question […]

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The top 10 Oscar ‘sure things’

By Simon Miraudo February 15, 2013 When the first cavemen started to tell stories by projecting shadows onto flat surfaces, we suspect they were forced to compete for an annual award that recognised one’s shadowplay as better than the others. You can also assume that there were onlookers who clubbed each other to death over […]

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Argo wins big at BAFTAs; Skyfall named Outstanding British Film

Ben Affleck’s Argo took out the major prizes at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards this morning, while many of its Oscar competitors shared the remaining accolades. Argo won Best Film, Best Director, and Best Editing, clearing its path for the Best Picture prize at the Academy Awards. Skyfall was named Outstanding British Film, the first […]

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Daniel Day-Lewis originally turned down Lincoln and wrote Steven Spielberg a letter to explain why

Daniel Day-Lewis is practically a mortal lock for the Best Actor prize at this year’s Oscar ceremony. In fact, the Academy probably started inscribing his name on the award as soon as it was announced he’d be playing the title character in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. There was, however, a time when he didn’t even want to […]

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Looper, Perks of Being a Wallflower battle The Master, Lincoln for WGA awards

With the Academy Award nominations right around the corner (oh, and the Golden Globes too, if you’re into that kind of thing), America’s finest film guilds have gathered to spruik their finest produce of 2012. One of the most prestigious precursors is the Writers Guild of America awards, despite the fact that it often proves […]

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Lincoln leads, Salmon scores, Aussies appear, and chaos reigns in 70th Golden Globe nominations

Ah, the Golden Globes. Where Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is considered one of the 10 best films of the year and shows like Mad Men and Louie are inferior to Smash! The nominations for the 70th Golden Globes Awards were announced last night, and the enigmatic Hollywood Foreign Press Association reminded us what hilarious scamps they are! Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln dominated the […]

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Trailer Debut: Lincoln (now with catchphrase!)

A second trailer for Steven Spielberg’s inevitable Oscar-sweeper Lincoln debuted during last week’s Presidential debate, contrasting the muted rhetoric of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney with America’s most beloved leader showing off swagger of Jay-Z proportions. Here, we see plenty of footage that implies this biopic won’t be as soggy as Spielberg’s other similarly-themed epics (Amistad, War Horse), […]

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Trailer Debut: Lincoln

Steven Spielberg‘s plan to emancipate all the Oscars from the Academy’s hands seems to be coming together quite nicely, with the trailer for his Lincoln looking like the awards-fodder we always expected it to be. That said, it’s hard not to anticipate an Abraham Lincoln biopic with Daniel Day-Lewis in the leading role, no matter how “worthy” […]

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Poster Debut: Lincoln

In case you were concerned Steven Spielberg‘s Abraham Lincoln biopic starring Daniel Day-Lewis wouldn’t be a serious affair, here is a stoic poster to allay your fears. The first poster for Lincoln carries on the ‘haggard president’ look from the film’s only officially released image. Considering what the man had to go through over the course of […]

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First look at Daniel Day-Lewis as Spielberg’s Lincoln

The first image of Daniel Day-Lewis as legendary American president Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg‘s upcoming biopic has been released by Entertainment Weekly. Gee, we hope that’s not a theatre he’s sitting at… He seems to be rather exhausted here, perhaps from a recent battle with the undead, or, more likely, due to the weight […]

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tommy Lee Jones join Spielberg’s Lincoln

 Movies often come in pairs. Armageddon/Deep Impact. Antz/A Bug’s Life. This year we’ll get the No Strings Attached clone Friends With Benefits, and soon we’ll have Snow White and The Huntsman and The Brothers Grimm: Snow White competing for our attention. 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln can now join these esteemed ranks as […]

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