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By Arty Chick, on March 7th, 2010
 Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Foreign Language Film
El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina
Film Editing
The Hurt Locker
Documentary Feature
The Cove
Visual Effects
Avatar
Original Score
Up, Michael Giacchino
Cinematography
Avatar
Sound Mixing
Avatar
Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker
Costume
The Young Victoria
Art Direction
Avatar
Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Adapted Screenplay
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Makeup
Star Trek
Live Action Short Film
The New Tenants
Documentary (short subject)
Music by Prudence
Animated Short Film
Logorama
Original Screenplay
Mark Boal, The Hurt [... Keep reading]
By Arty Chick, on March 3rd, 2010
 It is just days until the Oscars and the ballots are being counted and recounted by those nerdy accountants they always drag out. With 10 pictures in the running for Best Picture this year, I think it may split the vote all over the place and make it a very close race with several movies; the bookies, however, have it down to a toss-up between The Hurt Locker and Avatar. The real question though is not who will win but who should win for Best Picture? Cast your vote and let’s see if we at [... Keep reading]
By Arty Chick, on February 2nd, 2010
 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences released their 82nd Annual Oscar Nominations this morning. With all the other awards shows and announcements of best lists these days, it is sort of anticlimactic when they finally come out. Not a whole lot of surprises here. And I’m not sure the increase to 10 Best Picture nominees was such a great idea. Here are the nominees:
Best Picture
• Avatar James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
• The Blind Side Nominees to be determined
• District 9 Peter Jackson and Carolynne [... Keep reading]
By Adventurous Chick, on February 1st, 2010
 With all the best picture this and best actor that of the awards season, we would be remiss if we didn’t include the Razzie Award nominations for the worst of the year. This year there are not many surprises, and we Chicks missed most (though not all) of the nominated films. Since Sandra Bullock will no doubt be nominated for an Oscar, she will be the first actress to be both a Razzie and an Academy Award nominee in the same year. Yay, Sandra!
Here are the Razzie nominees for 2009.
Worst [... Keep reading]
By Mainstream Chick, on January 4th, 2010
 A Single Man is a good movie, but not an entertaining one. Colin Firth delivers a quietly stunning performance as George Falconer, a middle-aged college professor struggling to get through life after the accidental death of his longtime partner, Jim. The movie is set in 1962 Los Angeles against a backdrop of fear involving the Cuban Missile Crisis and an undercurrent of anti-gay sentiment. The story revolves around a single day in George’s life – a day in which he goes about his usual routine while also preparing to commit suicide. Brief, intermittent flashbacks provide [... Keep reading]
By Adventurous Chick, on December 16th, 2009
I know it’s awards season and there are tons of great movies in theaters for the holidays, but let’s take just a moment to look ahead to summer. On my “blockbuster” watch list – Robin Hood. Normally, I wouldn’t get excited about another Robin Hood movie. I mean come on, there have been, what, dozens of incarnations of the story on the big screen (and small). But this one has something the others did not. It has Russell Crowe and it’s directed by Ridley Scott. That’s the same duo that gave us Gladiator, and god I loved Gladiator, and Crowe [... Keep reading]
By Arty Chick, on December 15th, 2009
 It has begun. The film awards season is upon us. The Academy Awards aren’t until March 7, but in the past couple of days, the film societies have begun releasing their picks for 2009. (The Oscar nominations don’t come out until Feb. 2.) Now, I really wish I’d seen The Hurt Locker when it was here, but I blinked and missed it. There seem to be a lot of nominees and/or winners that have not come out yet, or have only opened in limited release. I guess that is the way they always do it, so [... Keep reading]
By Arty Chick, on December 7th, 2009
 I found this posted today on the Syfy Wire and couldn’t be happier. I loved Dark Shadows. And Johnny Depp as Barnabas! He can suck my blood any time.
Forget Team Edward and Team Jacob. We’ve heard that director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp are making a feature film version of the classic 1960s gothic TV soap opera Dark Shadows, and producer Graham King now confirms that the film will shoot in the fall, with Depp to play broody vampire Barnabas Collins.
“We’re actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny,” King [... Keep reading]
By Mainstream Chick, on November 20th, 2009
New Moon is a guilty pleasure for fans of the Twilight series. It starts off a bit slow, but eventually sucks you in (yes, pun intended). I actually liked it better than the first installment, which managed to make over 300 million dollars despite being a pretty bad movie. So my guess is that the second (and third and fourth and god help us, possibly even fifth) will do pretty darn well no matter what the critics say. Watching this movie is like watching an extended episode of a soap opera or dramatic series that you’re embarrassed to admit [... Keep reading]
By anychick, on October 18th, 2009
 It’s a Chickflix first! Adventurous Chick, Arty Chick and Mainstream Chick all contributed to the $33 Million box office take for Where the Wild Things Are in its opening weekend, and each had her own views to share on the children’s-book-turned-live-action-movie. Rather than fight over who gets to (or has to) write the review, the Chicks hashed it out in a roundtable discussion. Here is how it went:
Adventurous Chick: I had been looking forward to this movie ever since I saw the preview months ago and I really, really, wanted to like it but I was kind of disappointed.
Arty Chick: [... Keep reading]
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