Michael Nordine

In a piece about good acting in bad movies he wrote last year, A.O. Scott suggested that "You might almost say that greatness shows itself precisely in the discrepancy between the performance and the material." It's in keeping with this notion that we've decided to highlight some of 2012's overachievers,......

We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage When I decided on Rachel Weisz in The Deep Blue Sea as my Best Actress pick for this column, her chances of......

Our weekly list of special event movies to see: Thursday, December 27 The Rambo movies weren't always standard-issue action. One need look no further for proof than First Blood, the first entry in the series--not to mention the only one directed by Ted Kotcheff, whose Wake in Fright enjoyed a......

We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). In February of this year, the Academy gave their Best Actor award to a Frenchman whose film was both a celebration of cinema and a lamentation if its bygone......

We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). For a long time I thought of Matthew McConaughey as an actor whom I liked more than he deserved. He built some good faith with Dazed and Confused and......

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage The latest theater chain to throw its hat in the increasingly crowded luxury-moviegoing ring, multiplex titan AMC officially re-opened its Marina 6 branch as a dine-in theater last Monday. Where once this......

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. On December 5 of last year, a few self-described movie geeks put a simple idea into practice: they all watched a movie at the same time and tweeted along to it. Called......

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Perceived reality has a habit of becoming actual reality when it comes to the Academy Awards. Once enough people started talking about how much Oscar momentum Silver Linings Playbook gained after winning the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival two months ago, for instance, their prognosticating had the effect......

Not only Norway's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film but also its most expensive cinematic production to date, Kon-Tiki is a biopic about a man who, in 1947, set out to prove a crackpot theory that (spoiler alert!) turned out to be right. The man in question is Thor......