Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Very sage, Original BJ. I do not like this movie. At. All. Sometimes a red flag kind of goes up during the course of a film one or two times and it takes a moment to recognize it. Precious bitch slaps you in the face with a red flag so hard ten minutes into the movie. I won't mince words: the minut...

I haven't heard of Battle for Terra, The Dolphin, Mary and Max, The Missing Linx, The Secret of Kells, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, or a Town Called Panic. Anything is possible but the year is proving to be very strong so I don't see them happening. Likewise, I think Alvin and the Chipmunks: ...

You've seen it? I just mean in watching films like Tokyo Sonata or Summer Hours, you can make a case for them being deeper. Fantastic Mr. Fox has nothing of terrible importance to say, unlike Ratatouille and WALL-E which are more thematically resonating animated films. Fuck that: films. Ratatouille...

I don't know if Fantastic Mr. Fox is the best movie of the year but there hasn't been a filmgoing experience I've had like it all year. I loved every minute of this film and it began with the first minute. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a glorious moviegoing experience that takes everything I love about Wes ...

Owen Gleiberman loves it. GRADE: A Who'd have guessed it? Wes Anderson, creator of the rascally stop-motion fable Fantastic Mr. Fox, turns out to be born to make animated films. I say that with a bit of mischief, because I'm not a big fan of Anderson's work (Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited). What ...

Unless I'm mistaken, both Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey are producers in the same way that Bob Yari was a producer on Crash. He didn't actually produce the film, but he was in charge of promoting it. Both Oprah and Tyler are pushing the hell out of Precious. They are in many ways making the film th...

Slant's Nick Schager likes it. FANTASTIC MR. FOX - ***/**** As with Spike Jonze and Where the Wild Things Are, Wes Anderson channels his idiosyncratic adult sensibilities through youthful genre trappings with the stop-motion animated Fantastic Mr. Fox. Yet even in light of this similarity, Anderson...

Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) I've only seen Pulse and know Kurosawa as a filmmaker of alienation horror films. Tokyo Sonata is a brilliant movie. I have a couple of qualms about the mother's transformation and a few beats along the way, but I found it incredibly moving. A father loses his admini...