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’Game of Thrones’ prequel series possible, says author George R. R. Martin

For all you Game of Thrones fans out there, here's an interesting read:

’Game of Thrones’ prequel series possible, says author George R. R. Martin

The Perfect Match

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The Perfect Match

Oscars 2013: JLaw's big night

The official list of winners c/o MTV.com:

Best Picture
Winner: "Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Amour"
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis - "Lincoln"
Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Hugh Jackman - "Les Miserables"
Joaquin Phoenix - "The Master"
Denzel Washington - "Flight"

Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty"
Emmanuelle Riva - "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis - "Beasts of Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"

Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Christoph Waltz - "Django Unchained"
Alan Arkin - "Argo"
Robert De Niro - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln"

Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Anne Hathaway - "Les Miserables"
Amy Adams - "The Master"
Sally Field - "Lincoln"
Helen Hunt - "The Sessions"
Jackie Weaver - "Silver Linings Playbook"

Animated Feature Film
Winner: "Brave"
"Frankenweenie"
"ParaNorman"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
"Wreck-It Ralph"

Directing
Winner: "Life of Pi" - Ang Lee
"Amour" - Michael Haneke
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Benh Zeitlin
"Lincoln" - Steven Spielberg
"Silver Linings Playbook" - David O. Russell

Writing - Original Screenplay
Winner: "Django Unchained" - Quentin Tarantino
"Amour" - Michael Haneke
"Flight" - John Gatins
"Moonrise Kingdom" - Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
"Zero Dark Thirty" - Mark Boal

Writing - Adapted Screenplay
Winner: "Argo" - Chris Terrio
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
"Life of Pi" - David Magee
"Lincoln" - Tony Kushner
"Silver Linings Playbook" - David O. Russell

Music - Original Song
Winner: "Skyfall" from "Skyfall," music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," music and lyrics by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from "Ted," music by Walter Murphy, lyrics by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," music by Mychael Danna, lyrics by Bombay Jayashri
"Suddenly" from "Les Miserables," music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Foreign Language Film
Winner: "Amour" (Austria)
"Kon-Tiki" (Norway)
"No" (Chile)
"A Royal Affair" (Denmark)
"War Witch" (Canada)

Cinematography
Winner: "Life of Pi"
"Anna Karenina"
"Django Unchained"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Costume Design
Winner: "Anna Karenina"
"Les Miserables"
"Lincoln"
"Mirror Mirror"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Documentary - Feature
Winner: "Searching for Sugar Man"
"5 Broken Cameras"
"The Gatekeepers"
"How to Survive a Plague"
"The Invisible War"

Documentary - Short
Winner: "Inocente"
"Kings Point"
"Mondays at Racine"
"Open Heart"
"Redemption"

Film Editing
Winner: "Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

Makeup And Hairstyling
Winner: "Les Miserables"
"Hitchcock"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"

Music - Original Score
Winner: "Life of Pi"
"Anna Karenina"
"Argo"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Production Design
Winner: "Lincoln"
"Anna Karenina"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"

Short Film - Animated
Winner: "Paperman"
"Adam and Dog"
"Fresh Guacamole"
"Head over Heels"
"Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'"

Short Film - Live Action
Winner: "Curfew"
"Asad"
"Buzkashi Boys"
"Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)"
"Henry"

Sound Editing
Tie: "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Skyfall"
"Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"

Sound Mixing
Winner: "Les Miserables"
"Argo"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Skyfall"

Visual Effects
Winner: "Life of Pi"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Marvel's The Avengers"
"Prometheus"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702523/2013-oscars-winners-list.jhtml

Repost: The Red Carpet at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards

Read this article about the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. To view the pictures, click this Forbes article link. 

Homeland star Claire Danes showed off her rocking post-baby body in a clingy red gown from Versace, which had gathers on the waist. “I am hoping I don’t leak,” she said on the red carpet referring to her post-natal condition.

Jennifer Lawrence and Marion Cotillard both wore red dresses with metal belts from Dior. Lawrence was in a Dior Haute Couture gown with origami-like bodice cups. “I really don’t know what haute means but I had to say it,” demurred Lawrence. Cotillard’s dress was short with an asymmetrical hem.

Television star Zooey Deschanel went the princess route in a strapless red ball gown from Oscar de la Renta. Jennifer Garner showed up in the arms of her husband, Argo’s Ben Affleck, in a deep red Vivienne Westwood gown. Naomi Watts of The Impossible went for a backless frock in burgundy from Zac Posen.

Lace was also all over the red carpet starting with a sultry Jennifer Lopez in a nude and white Zuhair Murad figure-hugging dress. Megan Fox wearing Dolce & Gabbana described her red carpet choice as “It’s tight, it’s lacy and that’s all there is to it.” Golden Globes co-host Tina Fey arrived in a black lace frock from L’Wren Scott and Julianna Margulies sizzled in a lacy body-skimming black gown from Emilio Pucci.

There were plenty of women in black too. Debra Messing in a ball gown from Donna Karan. Eva Longoria in Emilio Pucci and Katharine McPhee in Theyskens’ Theory both showed a lot of skin with low necklines and high slits. Nicole Kidman in Alexander McQueen and Rachel Weisz in Louis Vuitton played with the spring 2013 trend of transparency. And Julianne Moore, easily one of the best-dressed women of the evening, was supremely elegant in a graphic black and white (another spring 2013 trend) dress from Tom Ford. “I called him and asked him to make me a dress and he made me a dress,” said Moore of her Tom Ford custom made gown.

Pale colors like blush, nude and sea foam made their presence felt on the red carpet too starting with best actress nominee and Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain in Calvin Klein and Amy Adams in a mermaid hem “ballet pink” gown from Marchesa. Anne Hathaway of Les Miserables glittered in a fully beaded ivory-colored number from Chanel.

Click on the slideshow to see the gowns at the Golden Globe Awards and sound off on the comments section for your pick of the evening’s best-dressed.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/bluecarreon/2013/01/13/the-red-carpet-at-the-2013-golden-globe-awards/

Here's an list of the best horror films in the last two years according to Mark Hughes: 


Earlier this month, I gave you nine different lists of horror films for Halloween, and yesterday I added to that with my list of the ten best underrated horror movie sequels ever made. Today I finish out this year’s Halloween movie lists, with the very best fright flicks of the past two years!

It’s been a great decade for the genre, folks, with a real revival of horror cinema. In fact, I’d say we’ve had almost 15 years of strong growth and innovation for horror. Which makes it a lot of fun to put all of these lists together for you, so I’m kind of sad to see the season go. But don’t worry, I’ll have plenty more new lists for you next year!

And now, let’s close out this year’s Halloween viewing recommendations with the top ten best horror movies from 2011 and 2012!



Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2012/10/27/top-10-best-horror-movies-of-the-last-2-years/

Far from Heaven: Melodrama as a tool for criticism

This weekend my friends and I were going through my library and found a copy of Far from Heaven, the Julianne Moore starrer released in 2002. The movie, I recall, was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score. Overall it was an excellent movie, with several levels of meaning that went on to critique gender roles, racial discrimination, sexual orientation, and class.

The most striking thing about the movie was that every scene was well-thought out, that is, from the lighting, to the scene’s elements, down to the sweeping skirts fashionable in its 1950’s suburban neighborhood setting, everything was in place and in context, without anachronisms usually found in movies of its genre. Surprisingly, for a movie shot within the lines of melodramatic films, Far from Heaven is a revelation in itself.

There is a very similar movie that was shot back in the 50’s, using the same melodramatic schemes. All That Heaven Allows was every bit as dramatic and emotionally charged as Far From Heaven, and for a movie of its time, it didn’t quite illuminate on issues that were, up until the 1980’s, considered revolutionary. The topics of racial discrimination, class liberation, homosexuality, and other matters of social concern were pointedly ignored—a feature commonly found in the formulaic melodramatic film.

Overall, Far from Heaven has deviated from the norms of film as it has portrayed the challenges of a 1950’s society. Though melodramatic, it acted as both reflection and critique of the social challenges that up until today are not completely resolved.