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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Film / Film News Opening Friday

Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:00 PM

Warner Bros.
American Sniper

American Sniper - Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller

Blackhat - Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis

Paddington - Hugh Bonneville, Nicole Kidman

The Wedding Ringer - Kevin Hart, Josh Gad

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Film / Film News Opening Friday

Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:00 AM

Paramount
Selma

Inherent Vice - Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin

Selma - David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Film / Film News Opening Christmas Day

Posted By Matt Brunson on Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:00 AM

The Weinstein Company
The Imitation Game

Big Eyes - Amy Adams, Christophe Waltz

The Gambler - Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange

The Imitation Game - Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley

The Interview - Seth Rogen, James Franco

Into the Woods - Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt

Unbroken - Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Film / Film News SEFCA finds Budapest grand

Posted By Matt Brunson on Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:24 PM

The Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA) yesterday named The Grand Budapest Hotel the Best Picture of 2014 in its 23rd annual voting. Writer-director Wes Anderson's unique comedy earned a total of three awards, with its other victories coming in the categories of Best Ensemble and Best Original Screenplay (Anderson and Hugo Guinness).

Fox Searchlight
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Boyhood and Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), which respectively placed second and third in the tallying for Best Picture, were the only other movies to score multiple wins, each winning two prizes apiece.

The Wyatt Award, given annually to the "film that best evokes the spirit of the South" (past winners have included Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Help and Winter's Bone), this year went to director Ava DuVernay's Selma.

The Southeastern Film Critics Association is comprised of film journalists from nine states representing the Southeastern section of the United States. This year, 54 members participated in the voting, including Charlotte critics Sean O'Connell, Lawrence Toppman, Harvey Burgess and me.

In addition to naming its Best Picture, SEFCA also releases its Top 10 for the year. The complete list of winners and runners-up in all categories is below.

BEST PICTURE
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Boyhood
3. Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
4. Whiplash
5. The Imitation Game
6. Gone Girl
7. Snowpiercer
8. Nightcrawler
9. Foxcatcher
10. The Theory of Everything

BEST ACTOR
1. Michael Keaton, Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

BEST ACTRESS
1. Julianne Moore, Still Alice
2. Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Sony Pictures Classics
J.K. Simmons in Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
2. Edward Norton, Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
2. Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer

BEST ENSEMBLE
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Richard Linklater, Boyhood
2. Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
2. Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn
2. Wild: Nick Hornby

BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Life Itself
2. Citizenfour

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1. Force Majeure (Sweden)
2. Ida (Poland)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
1. The LEGO Movie
2. Big Hero 6

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Emmanuel Lubezki
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel: Robert Yeoman

THE GENE WYATT AWARD FOR THE FILM THAT BEST EVOKES THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH
1. Selma
2. Cold in July

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Film / Film News Opening This Week

Posted By Matt Brunson on Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:00 PM

Columbia
Annie

Wednesday

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen

Friday

Annie - Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis

Foxcatcher - Steve Carell, Channing Tatum

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - Ben Stiller, Ben Kingsley

Wild - Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern

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Monday, December 15, 2014

Film / Film News Charlotte Talks about film

Posted By Web Editor on Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:00 PM

Local film critics Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing and Sean O'Connell of CinemaBlend.com will join host Mike Collins for a discussion of the big year-end holiday movies on Charlotte Talks at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, on WFAE 90.7 FM.

Into the Woods Red Riding Hood hurries to her grandmas house to catch Charlotte Talks

Disney
Into the Woods' Red Riding Hood hurries to her grandma's house to catch Charlotte Talks

The group will discuss major movies that are currently playing in theaters, such as Exodus: Gods and Kings and the latest Hunger Games installment, as well as films opening between now and Christmas, including The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Imitation Game and Into the Woods.

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