The second Lion Award goes to Best Foreign Language film. Here are your Top 5…
5. Oslo, 31. august (Oslo, August 31st, Norway) – 45 points
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Welcome to the Lion Awards! For the next ten days we will be celebrating the Best of 2012, with daily awards in various categories leading up to the big reveal of the LAMB’s Top 10 Films. Here’s the announcement schedule:
Best Documentary
Best Foreign Film (non-English)...
This week’s edition of the LAMBScores features 3 films – Movie 43, Parker and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Movie 43 involves a series of short films with a star-studded cast, while Parker is yet another Jason Statham action movie. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters seemed to get...
I could easily lead off with some joke about how abstract Last Year at Marienbad is or how much I want to play Nim or what those people standing there like mannequins might have been thinking the whole time this film was made, but frankly, I think we did enough of that on the podcast (see below). Suffice to say, Marienbad is a strange, interesting, boring, mysterious, exciting, beautiful, bizarre film…often times all...
Another January weekend, another dismal lineup of films. None of this week’s releases (Mama, Broken City, The Last Stand) cracked the 3.0 mark on the LAMBScore scale. Maybe next week will be better? Remember, you can head on over to the forums if you wish to add your reviews for the next...
I believe the proper nomenclature is as follows:
*ahem*
If you got a problem, yo, we’ll solve it.
That’s basically the motto for the Ask the LAMB feature here, a segment that finds its host Jason Soto alternately begging for fun/interesting questions from LAMB members and (eventually) just trolling Yahoo Answers for the truly insane questions. It’s been a personal favorite feature of mine on the site,...
The polls are still open for the LIONs for LAMBs poll. You have until Feb 9th! If you haven’t voted yet, what are you waiting for? Please remember to specify the film when listing your acting and directing selections. Thank you for your participation. Here’s the poll:
http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/574137…
...Hi everyone. I’m Robert from Sketchy Details and I’ll be taking over Foreign Chops. I want to thank Steve from 1001plus for starting this great feature and running it so well.
The first topic of the new year is the cinema of Quebec. The Oscar nominations came out last week and Canada is once again in the running for Best Foreign Language Film with War Witch. In the past eight years, Canada has made the short list...
January continues to be the dumping ground for weak films, but thankfully there are still some holdovers from Oscar season to keep us happy. This week we have scores for A Haunted House and Gangster Squad, but the big one is Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial film Zero Dark Thirty. Find out what the LAMB members thought of...