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'Zero Dark Thirty' Continues Critical Stampede Topping Peter Travers, David Edelstein & Huffington Post Best Of 2012

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • December 7, 2012 11:03 AM
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  • 8 Comments
News
With each passing day, it's looking more and more like Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" is going to be the one to beat this awards season. As we cautioned earlier this week, this trajectory right now reminds us of David Fincher's "The Social Network," which got all kinds of critical and industry love, only to lose out to Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" in the end. Granted, "Les Miserables" is no longer looking like a slam dunk with early reviews decidedly mixed (read ours here) but all this to say, there is still a lot the game to be played.
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More: Best Of 2012, Zero Dark Thirty, The Master, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Argo, Lincoln, Les Miserables, The Silver Linings Playbook, Life Of Pi, Moonrise Kingdom, The Dark Knight Rises, Amour, The Deep Blue Sea, Pitch Perfect, Oslo, August 31, Friends With Kids, Looper, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' Tops Sight & Sound's Best Of 2012

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • December 1, 2012 11:04 AM
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  • 52 Comments
News
It's December 1st, which means we're just weeks away from 2013, and critics will be compiling their 'Best of 2012' lists over the next few weeks. The Cahiers Du Cinema already got the ball rolling with their selection of the best films of the year, and now another venerated cinema magazine has unveiled their choices.
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More: Best Of 2012, The Master, Tabu, Amour, Holy Motors, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Berberian Sound Studio, Moonrise Kingdom, Beyond The Hills, Cosmopolis, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, This Is Not A Film

'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Silver Linings,' 'Beasts' & 'Keep The Lights On' Top Spirit Awards Nominations

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • November 27, 2012 1:41 PM
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  • 9 Comments
Awards
We've barely had time to take a breath since the Gotham Awards were awarded last night, and already we're moving on, because their big cousin, the 28th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, revealed their nominations just a few minutes ago.
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More: Spirit Awards, Awards, The Amazing Race, Moonrise Kingdom, The Silver Linings Playbook, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Keep the Lights On, Bernie

'Moonrise Kingdom' & 'Beasts Of The Southern Wild' Take Top Prizes At Gotham Awards

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • November 27, 2012 8:27 AM
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  • 3 Comments
Awards
After months and months of a sort of awards season cold war, this week sees people actually start to be nominated and win things. The first major nods of the year are announced on Thursday with the Independent Spirits, and last night saw the first proper ceremony of the year, with "Sleepwalk With Me" director/star Mike Birbiglia hosting the 22nd Annual Gotham Awards in NYC.
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More: Awards, Gotham Awards, Moonrise Kingdom, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Your Sister's Sister, Middle Of Nowhere, How To Survive A Plague

Oscars: Taking The Temperature Of The Race As 'Les Miserables' & 'Zero Dark Thirty' Screen

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • November 26, 2012 10:57 AM
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  • 13 Comments
Awards
With Thanksgiving over and done with, we've arguably reached the mid-point of the awards season. Things will be kicking off with the Independent Spirit nominations arriving tomorrow, and the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review following next week. And with Oscar ballots going out not long after, almost every film has been screened, with "Les Miserables" and "Zero Dark Thirty" making their debuts over the weekend to press and industry types, leaving "Django Unchained" the last major contender to be seen by critics. And many of the big movies, including "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Life Of Pi" most recently, have now been seen by audiences too.
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More: Awards, Academy Awards, Oscars, The Amazing Race, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, Les Miserables, Life Of Pi, The Silver Linings Playbook, Amour, The Master, Flight, The Impossible, Django Unchained, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Moonrise Kingdom

Limited Vinyl Editions Of 'Reservoir Dogs' & 'Moonrise Kingdom' Soundtracks Coming For Record Store Day

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • November 5, 2012 3:38 PM
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  • 2 Comments
News
This will probably be the only time we'll ever place images from "Reservoir Dogs" and "Moonrise Kingdom" beside each other, but fans of soundtracks and good ol' fashioned vinyl will likely be excited for this bit of news. They are both getting reissued on limited edition vinyl for the upcoming Record Store Day, so read on below for more details.
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More: Reservoir Dogs, Moonrise Kingdom, Soundtrack

Wes Anderson Seeking Out Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Angela Lansbury & More For His Next Movie

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • July 9, 2012 3:32 PM
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  • 7 Comments
News
"Moonrise Kingdom" not only earned Wes Anderson some of the best reviews in years, but has also done extremely well in limited release, where it's pulled in $37 million worldwide thus far and has been cracking the top ten domestically, even though it's in less than 900 theaters. And it seems he's very eager to get back behind the cameras.
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More: Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody

Weekend Box Office: 'Ted' & 'Magic Mike' Smash Expectations, Dominate Box Office

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • July 1, 2012 12:11 PM
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  • 3 Comments
Box Office
Rareified air. This weekend's box office took cinematic money-making to a new high, with four movies registering eight-figure Fridays for the first time in history, leading to a bonanza that almost every studio enjoyed. Leading the way and outdoing all expectations was "Ted," the teddy bear-Marky Mark bromantic comedy that brought in a spectacular $54.1 million. It marks the third highest R-rated opening of all time behind "The Hangover Part II" and "Sex And The City."
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More: Weekend Box-Office, Magic Mike, Brave, Tyler Perry, Ted, Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Moonrise Kingdom, Madagascar 3

Check Out Adrian Tomine's Beautiful Illustration Of 'Moonrise Kingdom' For The New Yorker

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 21, 2012 5:16 PM
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  • 4 Comments
News
If you're of a certain age and temperament, you know exactly who Adrian Tomine is. The cartoonist is probably best known for "Optic Nerve," his series of comics published by Drawn & Quarterly that ran in the late '90s and was compiled into "32 Stories," which every college kid had tucked under their arm at one point. It established a style that would become his calling card -- almost obsessively straight-lined design that usually managed to capture the loneliness or heartbreak of the characters he often sketched. And he's a good fit for his latest gig.
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More: Moonrise Kingdom

The Best Films Of 2012...So Far

  • By The Playlist Staff
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  • June 21, 2012 9:58 AM
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  • 26 Comments
Features
It feels like only yesterday that we were talking about the best films of 2011, and yet here we are, nearly at the end of June, and we've seen pretty much everything that the first half of the year has to offer. So with the mid-point of 2012 nearly upon us, we thought we'd look over the best films we've seen in theaters over the last six months.
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More: Best Of, Best Of 2012, Features, Moonrise Kingdom, Take This Waltz, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Sound Of My Voice, The Kid With The Bike, The Forgiveness Of Blood, This Is Not A Film, The Deep Blue Sea, Bernie, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, The Turin Horse, Post Mortem, Safety Not Guaranteed, 21 Jump Street, Cabin In The Woods

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