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In the wake of Hollywood’s Weekend of Various and Sundry Awards, there are remarkably few things you need to know. 1. Ben Affleck thanked Canada for helping him win Best Picture. 2. The Onion felt remorse after calling a 9-year-old girl a name typically reserved for 18th-century German philosophers. 3. Seth … Read More
Let’s be honest: picking the “best film” of the year (or rewarding art in general) is always a bit of a crapshoot, though studios hope perhaps less of a crapshoot after they mounted bunch of $10 million campaigns. For every great film like American Beauty, there’s a regretful one like … Read More
If they didn’t want their films reduced to trite jokes, those filmmakers shouldn’t have expressed themselves creatively. [More posters via College Humour]
DailyXY’s TIFF coverage is sponsored by the Alliance film, The Ides of March. Looking at the top and bottom of this post, you will notice that one of the films I am about to discuss is, entirely by coincidence, “sponsoring” my TIFF blog. Thanks and all that but, for the … Read More
