We’ve now come to the end of our 2012 awards. This was a great year for film and it’s time for us to celebrate our favorites. Here are the Top 10 Films of 2012, as voted on the members of the LAMB, with brief tributes from some of their biggest fans.
‘The complete package – performances, direction,...
A tradition like no other…it’s Academy Award predictions on the LAMBcast. The cast is Dylan, Nick, Shane, Nick P. and Vern. We discuss a number of categories, with the main focus on:
Picture, Director, all Acting and Writing awards, Documentary Feature, Animated Feature and Foreign Language Film
Also on tap:
* Rants and Raves of the Week
* Name That Film Times Five
A few notes:
* The...
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for Foreign Chops: Cinema of Quebec is March 6 at Midnight, EST. We’ll accept up to five links per site. They can be new or old reviews or articles about films from Quebec. You can e-mail the links to [email protected]. Foreign Chops publishes on the first Thursday of the month.
You still have just over two weeks to get your posts together. I...
Welcome back. We are moving right along with the next award for Best Actress. Here are your top 5:
5. Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone) – 71 points
4. Quvenzhané Wallis (Beast of the Southern...
I don’t know what to tell you, but this contest was over before it started. Not sure what Justin of Man, I Love Films used to bribe people, but it worked (and he assured me that his campaigning was all “legit”). Identity destroyed the field from about two hours into the polling all the way through the end, winning with over 40% of the vote. As such, Justin becomes the latest Champion and has won a...
Today’s award is for Best Supporting Actor! Here are your Top 5:
One of my favourite traditions about televised awards shows are the “Oscar clips” that they play for the acting nominees. So I decided to copy that and add some brief clips of the performances to remind us of their stellar work.
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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...