Selma

New Infographic Fact-Checks Movies Based on True Stories
New Infographic Fact-Checks Movies Based on True Stories
New Infographic Fact-Checks Movies Based on True Stories
One of the biggest questions a director or a screenwriter asks him or herself before starting work on any kind of “true story” movie is: how much of the truth do I keep, how much do I toss, and how much do I tweak a little bit? Real life, as you may know, isn’t like the movies, and sometimes stuff just… happens. While it may be full of good stories, life isn’t subject to neat plot arcs, which can be pretty irritating when you’re trying to fit it into a two-hour movie. Which is why, sometimes, moviemakers like to fudge things a little bit. Have you ever been to the movies and asked yourself, I wonder if it actually happened this way? Now, with a handy new infographic, we can know for sure.
ScreenCrush Predicts the 2015 Academy Awards
ScreenCrush Predicts the 2015 Academy Awards
ScreenCrush Predicts the 2015 Academy Awards
Ready for the Academy Awards this Sunday? Need help winning your Oscar pool? ScreenCrush Editor-in-Chief Mike Sampson and Managing Editor Matt Singer are here to help. Or potentially make things worse. Honestly, they’re not great at guessing the winners. But they’re going to try their best.
‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay Developing Series for OWN
‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay Developing Series for OWN
‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay Developing Series for OWN
It’s been a little disappointing to watch the reception of Ava DuVernay’s ‘Selma’ so far. The outstanding biopic about Martin Luther King has done reasonably well in theaters ($43 million domestically and counting), but it’s been mired in controversy over its depiction of President Lyndon B. Johnson and wound up receiving just two Academy Award nominations (Best Picture and Original Song), leaving DuVernay’s powerful direction and David Oyelowo’s terrific lead performance unfortunately overlooked. I thought ‘Selma’ was one of the best and most powerful films of the year. It deserves better.
Ranking the 2015 Oscar Snubs From Forgivable to WTF
Ranking the 2015 Oscar Snubs From Forgivable to WTF
Ranking the 2015 Oscar Snubs From Forgivable to WTF
Yep, it’s that time of the year again. The 2015 Oscar nominations are here and it’s time for everyone to get outraged and cynical over which movies get the opportunity to take home statuettes of naked golden dudes. Sure, we always tell ourselves that the Academy Awards don’t really matter and that a film’s legacy will live or die for reasons beyond trophies, but we always end up getting angry about these things anyway. However, this year’s biggest snubs seems more egregious than usual and require slightly more yelling and stamping of feet.
Weekend Box Office Report: Liam Neeson's 'Taken 3' Kills It
Weekend Box Office Report: Liam Neeson's 'Taken 3' Kills It
Weekend Box Office Report: Liam Neeson's 'Taken 3' Kills It
Back in the olden times, it was surprising that a hyper-violent action movie starring that guy from ‘Schindler’s List’ could open to huge box office and become one of the biggest hits of the year. But this is 2015, and it’s a little less surprising when a Liam Neeson action movie opens big. ‘Taken 3’ may not have matched the opening weekend of ‘Taken 2,’ but it’s off to a strong start.
Did the Golden Globes Reveal the 2015 Best Picture Winners?
Did the Golden Globes Reveal the 2015 Best Picture Winners?
Did the Golden Globes Reveal the 2015 Best Picture Winners?
File this one under a possible oops: If you were checking out the Golden Globes website earlier today, you may have noticed something curious. On the page for the 2014 winners, ‘Selma’ appeared in the place where ‘12 Years a Slave’ once was, and a little while later, ‘Into the Woods’ appeared in place of ‘American Hustle.’ Was this a mistake, or something a little more innocuous? According to the HFPA, it’s definitely the latter.
The 147 Best (And Worst) Movies Of 2014
The 147 Best (And Worst) Movies Of 2014
The 147 Best (And Worst) Movies Of 2014
I enjoy reading top ten lists, but I don’t particularly like making a top ten list—which does nothing as far as an explanation as to why I decided to do a Top 147 list (or Bottom 147 list, if that’s more your thing). I covered four film festivals in 2014, so I saw more than 147 movies, but these are the 147 movies I saw that came out in a theater this year. (I realize ‘The Interview’ is now not coming out, but, whatever, it’s on here too.) I am only one human being, so I didn’t see every movie that came out this year—Where’s ‘Noah’? I never saw ‘Noah’—but I think I saw quite a few! Anyway, here they all are. (I only wrote about a few of them because I am not a crazy person.)
The Best Movies of 2014
The Best Movies of 2014
The Best Movies of 2014
It wasn’t a great year for critics in movies—see ‘Birdman’ (or ‘Chef’ [or ‘Top Five’ (or ‘Big Eyes’)])—but it was a great year for critics at movies. 2014 offered an tremendous variety of fantastic films: big and small; foreign and domestic; mainstream and indie. To anyone who says the overall quality of movies has declined, I call B.S. There are more good movies now than ever before. If you can’t find one, you’re not looking very hard. Take, for instance, these ten instant classics:
How to Make an Oscar-Winning Biopic
How to Make an Oscar-Winning Biopic
How to Make an Oscar-Winning Biopic
In cinematic circles, there are a few names for this time of year. Awards-minded individuals call the fall “Oscar season” because this is when the campaigning for little gold men gets particularly hot and heavy. The late film critic Roger Ebert used to call it “good movie season,” because the byproduct of all that campaigning was all of the studios’ most promising and intellectually stimulating titles getting released together in the span of two months. In recent years, I’ve started to call the fall by a different name: Biopic season, because barely a week goes by without a new biographical film.
‘Birdman’ leads the list of 2014 Spirit Award nominations
‘Birdman’ leads the list of 2014 Spirit Award nominations
‘Birdman’ leads the list of 2014 Spirit Award nominations
341 movies were submitted, and nominating committees of “writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, actors, critics, casting directors, film festival programmers, and other working film professionals” chose their favorites. (What, no caterers?) Those votes were tallied and the results are the nominees below, for the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards, generally regarded as the most important and prestigious awards for independent film in the country.

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