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MostlyFilm Review of 2014: Film
MostlyFilm is coming home – and just in time for Christmas. Today we devote ourselves to our first love. These are mostly the best films of 2014.
MostlyFilm Review of 2014: Music
On this gloomy Monday, MostyFilm is here to pleasure your ears. This is the best music of 2014. By the time you’ve finished reading – and listening – to this, your headphones will be twice as much fun as they are now.
MostlyFilm’s Review of 2014: Television
We’re bathing in the glow of TV static at MostlyFilm right now. On Wednesday we delivered the last word on this year’s Doctor Who. And today, four of our most squared-eyed scribes are here to tell you more about the telly in 2014. Here is what you should have been watching…
Extant
Today, MostlyFilm looks at a bit of upcoming telly you may not have heard about. Christian Torres reports.
Tuck In!
Niall Anderson takes delivery of foodie Indian romcom The Lunchbox
The Past
Asghar Farhadi directed A Separation, one of the best films of the decade so far. His new film is called The Past. Ron Swanson thinks it is the work one of the the greatest filmmakers working today. You need to read what he says, and then see the film.
Mostly Oscars 2014
This year’s live! Exclusive! realtime! (where realtime = seconds or minutes behind the official broadcast!) Oscars commentary is brought to you by seasoned regulars Laura Morgan and Victor Field, plus a mysterious cabal of shadowy individuals known as MarvMarsh, Clio and veal. Join us here from 11ish tonight for insightful, incisive (and other “i” words) observations from the red carpet, the ceremony and the internet at large. In the meantime, meet your hosts…
Oscars: Preamble
This year’s live! Exclusive! realtime! (where realtime = seconds or minutes behind the official broadcast!) Oscars commentary is brought to you by seasoned regulars Laura Morgan and Victor Field, plus a mysterious cabal of shadowy individuals known as MarvMarsh, Clio and veal. Join us here from 11ish tonight for insightful, incisive (and other “i” words) observations from the red carpet, the ceremony and the internet at large. In the meantime, meet your hosts…
Laura Morgan is gainfully unemployed, has made her own set of Oscar predictions over at gladallover.net, and may become diverted from Oscars coverage because she is currently in charge of a two-year-old and a large dog. Victor Field is 44, unattached and unlooking, has about 2000 soundtrack albums and wishes Quentin Tarantino would bother to commission his own film music instead of using other people’s, the lazy little fucker.
MarvMarsh is a fan of all Brad Pitt’s different hair cuts and won’t have it that he (Brad, not Marv) is botching being the most beautiful man in the world. Clio is a longtime connoisseur of Oscar subtleties and absurdities, who still thinks that Judy Garland was
robbed of Best Actress in 1955. Veal is so mysterious that we don’t even know enough about her to give her a bio.
As is MostlyFilm tradition (well, we’ve done it twice, and we’re only three years old) we are playing Oscars bingo. This year we will be awarding points for each of the following:
- Cate is asked about or mentions Woody Allen
- Anybody (including himself) makes fun of Alfonso Cuarón’s English or accent.
- The Samuel L. Jackson Memorial Really Bad Loser Award
- An earnest Hollywood reminder that slavery is a Bad Thing
- A woman other than Ellen Degeneres in trousers
- An embarrassingly inappropriate acting nomination clip
- The orchestra kicks in mid-speech. Bonus points for anyone actually managing to silence the orchestra à la Julia Roberts
- MrsMarv, who is approximately 40 weeks pregnant, goes into labour
Exciting times! See you back here later. Bring popcorn.
Mostly Oscar Predictions
We’ll be live-blogging the Oscar ceremony in the small hours of Monday morning, because why the hell not? And today we bring you our not-quite exhaustive category-by-category Oscar predictions, because why the hell not?
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