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Sure, the Wizard of Oz tells us there's no place like home. But as any movie that exists outside a complete fantasy world is quick to remind: When home means dealing with your family, sometimes you'd be a lot happier if you stayed away. Then again, it could be a lot worse. However bad your own family, it's almost certain you'd have a worse time traveling across the country to sip eggnog and open presents with any of these clans — all, admittedly, great fun to watch in a theater.
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Posted 12.24.12 by reelz -
No surprise, we love the Oscars. But ... well, even we have to admit that the show always goes on too long and you can really only count on one good joke per hour. Enter our annual Oscar Bingo Cards, a sure way to get you through the duller moments. Or to help ignore that blowhard at the party who you know only saw Iron Man 2 and Inception, yet somehow has an opinion on every award.
This year we've put together a set of 10 Cards — one for each of the movies up for Best Picture. (Hint: Check out the FREE SPACE icons.) While we can't guarantee every one of these events will happen, we're pretty confident a game of Blackout Bingo will prove possible with several of the cards in the mix.
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Posted 02.18.11 by reelz -
Now that the Academy has expanded the number of Best Picture nominees to 10, and the other main Actor/Actress nominations include five other movies, it's nearly impossible to keep up without working concessions at a multiplex. Especially when there's a new Jersey Shore, Real Housewives, and The Bachelor. Every. Damn. Week. So when that Oscar party invite comes in the mail, don't panic. We've created a cheat sheet of top talking points.
Oscar Cocktail Party Conversation Guide >>
Posted 02.07.11 by reelz -
The nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced this morning. Nominated for Best Picture are:
The Social Network
The King's Speech
Winter's Bone
Toy Story 3
Black Swan
The Kids are All Right
Inception
True Grit
127 Hours
The Fighter
How did we do in the Oscar predictions we made back in September 2010?
Posted 01.25.11 by reelz -
Jennifer Lawrence rose to prominence after her performance in the indie Winter's Bone received heavy praise. That movie's still enjoying box office success in its limited release, but after being cast as the blue-skinned shapeshifter Mystique in Fox's upcoming X-Men: First Class, Lawrence is going to scrutinized by a much larger audience. The actress admitted to the Orlando Sentinel that she was not prepared for the attention that the X-Men franchise brings, saying she has "never done a movie where the title alone makes people go a little crazy."
more on Lawrence's X-Men education >> Posted 07.23.10 by Ryan