Oscar buzz: Catholic movie reviews
Friday, February 25, 2011
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Hollywood celebrates the best in film from the past year with the Academy Awards show this weekend. What were your favorite movies of the year?
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U.S. Catholic reviews of the best picture Oscar nominees:
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
127 Hours
The Social Network
Winter's Bone
Favorite 2010 film
By carol (not verified) on Tuesday, March 29, 2011I loved The King's Speech & Social Network, but the film that stays with me
is "Waiting for Superman." Unfortunately many didn't see this examination of the lives of six or seven kids in Washington, DC public schools' lottery system hoping for a shot at getting into a charter school. One of them had been dropped from a Catholic school because her single mom lost her job and could not pay the tuition. She was even restricted from going to the class graduation party. This film touched me more than any film of last year, and it has changed the way I voted in the last local electiion.
True Grit and Inception / The Social Network are best if 2010
By Fr. Dennis Kriz, OSM (not verified) on Friday, February 25, 2011There were a surprisingly large number of well written, well acted and overall well produced movies this year.
Well written screenplays would include the Coen Brothers' reworking of True Grit, as well as The Fighter, Social Network and Inception.
There were not too many "leading role" performances that stood out (Colin Firth in the King's Speech and Natalie Portman's in Black Swan. A third performance by George Clooney in The American that I would have included in the Oscar nomination list did not make it).
However, there were a host of outstanding "supporting role" performances. These included Christian Bale's and Melissa Leo's performances in The Fighter, Helena Bohnam Carter and Geoffrey Rush's performances in The King's Speech, Hailey Steinfeld's and Matt Damon's performances in True Grit and Garrett Hedlund's and Leighton Meester's performances in Country Strong (Damon, Hedlund and Meester not having been nominated in that crowded of a field).
I liked the freshness of the Coen brothers' reworking of True Grit and I really liked the "signs of the times" _spectacular_ NEWNESS of both Inception and The Social Network.
I do hope that the academy chooses the fresh over the old.
Oscar Awards
By JOEL FLORENTINO (not verified) on Friday, February 25, 2011Hi Friends!
This is my first comment and twice to the other FB fan page. I would like to pick after watching the movie "The King's Speech".AWESOME
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