-Reviews have come in for Nine, and it looks like it's not going to be the Oscar winner it was thought to have been a year ago. Rob Marshall seems to have hit far off from his last effort Chicago. While the critics say it is beautiful looking, they say its actors are not properly used, and that the story is just mashed together with barely relevent songs that aren't able to achieve emotional resonance. Now with Nine, and Lovely Bones getting mixed reviews, and Invictus getting good but not necessarily great reviews it looks like there is room open for crowd favorite films like Up, Star Trek, and Inglourious Basterds to come in and steal the gold.
-Speaking of such big films, as James Camerons mega-epic Avatar has been slowly approaching the response has been getting better and better. With some convincing Featurettes they have eased our fears of it being just a silly animated film, by explaining the concept of motion capture to the 60% of the world who are extremely stupid, and with some minute and a half clips we can now actually buy into these characters. Once reviews start coming out we will get a good grasp on how things have been handled. Also the theme song for the film I See You sung by Leona Lewis has made it to youtube so take a look at that. To me it seems just a heartbeat away from My Heart Will Go On but it stays of rhythm just enough to keep it fresh.
-The National Board of Review has announced its winners and a couple of notable points are the absense of Nine and The Lovely Bones, reaffirming that it's probably not happening for those films. The biggest surprise however is that Precious is gone from the list entirely (Aside from Gabourney Sidibe for Breakthrough Actress). This may be a bad thing for its chances at best picture. Up in the Air came out on top with the best picture prize, putting it in the upper categories for the Oscars. For the full list of winner go here: http://oscar-watch.ew.com/2009/12/03/wins-national-board-of-review/
-Finally, after all this time we have... 56 seconds of footage from the likely 5 hour final installment in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. How could we live through these long months without this new teaser. It arrived online in bootleg form today, and it will probably be back online in higher definition as soon as it is actually released on the Half-Blood Prince DVD this tuesday. It really looks like quite something and I'm going to go out on a far out limb here and say that it will be the best film in the series, hands down. Can't wait! Look for it on youtube if it's still up there.
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