Category Archives: Best of 2012
January 11, 2012 Preview of 2012 – the Best of the Rest
by Ron Swanson Over the last couple of days we’ve looked at some of the biggest blockbusters, and potential art-house hits that will go a long way towards defining 2012 as a cinematic year, but it would be silly to underestimate the importance of those films that sit somewhere between those two camps – be [...]
Tags: the Gangster Squad
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January 10, 2012 Preview of 2012 – Blockbusters
by Ron Swanson Any preview of 2012, (or at least one that wants to rouse the collective interest of ‘the Internet’, should probably start with Christopher Nolan’s the Dark Knight Rises. The UK’s cinematic summer slate will be more crowded than ever, with studios running away from two sporting events – the European Football Championships [...]
Tags: Brave, Ice Age 4, Inception, Jack the Giant Killer, Madagascar 3, Mirror Mirror, Prometheus, Red Riding Hood, Skyfall, Snow white and the Huntsman, Step Up 4, StreetDanceTwo, the Amazing Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Dark Knight Rises, the Hobbit:: an Unexpected Journey, The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists, Wrath of the Titans
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January 9, 2012 Preview of 2012 – Awards and Art House
by Ron Swanson Just before Christmas, the issue of film release scheduling was brought up as part of the ugly contretemps between New Yorker film reviewer David Denby and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo producer Scott Rudin. While Denby’s claim that he had to break an embargo he’d agreed to because of release schedule madness [...]
Tags: Carnage, Girls, Iron Lady, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Shame, The Artist, The Descendants, The Grandmasters, The Sweeney, The Woman in the Fifth, Tiny Furniture, War Horse, Welcome to the Punch, Winter's Bone
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