Archive for the ‘Periodic Features’ Category

• The LAMB Devours the Oscars: Best Animated Short Film

  by Rachel · Feb 22, 2012 at 19:00 CST · LAMB Devours the Oscars · 7 Comments
  
  Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-ninth of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a different category of the Oscars. To read any other posts regarding this event, please click the tag following the post. Thank you, and...

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• The 5th Annual LION Awards: Best Screenplay

  by Rachel · Feb 21, 2012 at 23:30 CST · LIONs for LAMB · 1 Comment
  

  For the halfway-mark LION Award, it’s time to reveal our favorite writers for Best Screenplay.

  5. Will Reiser for 50/50 and Abbas Kiarostami for Certified Copy (28 points)

  4. Diablo Cody for Young Adult (30 points)

  3. Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin and Aaron Sorkin for Moneyball (49 points)

  2. Asghar Farhadi for A Separation (53 points)

  1. Woody Allen for...

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• The LAMB Devours the Oscars: Best Picture – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  by Rachel · Feb 21, 2012 at 19:00 CST · LAMB Devours the Oscars · 3 Comments
  
  Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-eighth of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a different category of the Oscars. To read any other posts regarding this event, please click the tag following the post. Thank you, and...

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• The 5th Annual LION Awards: Best Supporting Actress

  by Rachel · Feb 20, 2012 at 23:30 CST · LIONs for LAMB · 8 Comments
  

  The fourth LION Award is for Best Supporting Actress. This is the most intriguing category I’ve tallied (so far), because of the massive support for three separate Jessica Chastain roles.  How many made it or did she split the vote?

  5. Jessica Chastain in The Tree of Life (39 points)

  4. Shailene Woodley in The Descendants (46 points)

  3. Jessica Chastain in The Help (50 points)

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• The LAMB Devours the Oscars: Best Director

  by Rachel · Feb 20, 2012 at 19:00 CST · LAMB Devours the Oscars · 10 Comments
  
  Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-seventh of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a different category of the Oscars. To read any other posts regarding this event, please click the tag following the post. Thank you, and...

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• The 5th Annual LION Awards: Best Supporting Actor

  by Rachel · Feb 19, 2012 at 23:30 CST · LIONs for LAMB · 5 Comments
  

  The third LION Award is for Best Supporting Actor. No major surprises here:

  5. Nick Nolte in Warrior (33 points)

  4. John Hawkes in Martha Marcy May Marlene (37 points)

  3. Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life (57 points)

  2. Albert Brooks in Drive (75 points)

  1. Christopher Plummer in Beginners (92 points)

  Come back tomorrow for the results of Best Supporting...

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• The LAMB Devours the Oscars: Best Documentary Short Subject

  by Rachel · Feb 19, 2012 at 19:00 CST · LAMB Devours the Oscars · 6 Comments
  
  Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-sixth of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a different category of the Oscars. To read any other posts regarding this event, please click the tag following the post. Thank you, and...

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• The 5th Annual LION Awards: Best Foreign Film

  by Rachel · Feb 18, 2012 at 23:30 CST · LIONs for LAMB · 2 Comments
  

  Our second LION Award goes to Best Foreign Language Film:

  4. I Saw the Devil and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (18 points) 3. Certified Copy (24 points)

  2. The Skin I Live In (56 points)

  1. A Separation (86 points)

  Come back tomorrow to find out who the  Best Supporting Actor is.…

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• The LAMB Devours the Oscars: Best Live Action Short Film

  by Rachel · Feb 18, 2012 at 19:00 CST · LAMB Devours the Oscars · 5 Comments
  
  Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-fifth of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a different category of the Oscars. To read any other posts regarding this event, please click the tag following the post. Thank you, and...

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• The 5th Annual LION Awards: Introduction/Best Documentary Film

  by Rachel · Feb 17, 2012 at 23:30 CST · LIONs for LAMB · 10 Comments
  
  Welcome to the LIONs! For the next ten days results for the following categories will be presented daily (one per day) with the LAMBs’ Top 10 Films arriving the day of the 84th Academy Awards:

  Best Documentary Best Foreign Film (non-English)
  Best Screenplay
  Best Performance by a Supporting Female
  Best Performance by a Supporting Male
  Best Performance by a Leading Female
  Best Performance...

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• Brutally Blunt Blog Blustering #61: The LAMB!!!!

  by Shep. Burman · Feb 17, 2012 at 23:17 CST · Blog Blustering · 46 Comments
  

  It’s Blusterin’ Time!

  If you’re new to this feature or need a refresher, click the label at the bottom of this post and see the previous posts. Otherwise, here are the basics:

  What I do is list a site; you critique it. But here’s the catch: to induce the most honest reactions, don’t leave the comment using your normal alias/login – instead, go anonymous, and be as brutally honest (or...

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• The LAMB Devours the Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

  by Rachel · Feb 17, 2012 at 19:00 CST · LAMB Devours the Oscars · 3 Comments
  
  Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-fourth of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a different category of the Oscars. To read any other posts regarding this event, please click the tag following the post. Thank you, and...

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