[Weekly Netflix Fix] February Update
With Sundance behind us, we can finally return to our regularly-scheduled Weekly Netflix Fix posts. I guess over the past month or so, it became the Bi-Weekly Netflix Fix, but we'll be back on solid ground with weekly updates. With February starting earlier this week, there is a plethora of new additions to Netflix Instant. Some of the highlights include Rian Johnson's underrated second film, The Brothers Bloom, the Vanessa Hudgens-led Gimme Shelter, the return of Ryan Gosling's understated Lars and the Real Girl and Starship Troopers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, the first Naruto Shippuden film, and the sorely underrated Daniel Radcliffe vehicle, Horns.
Check out the rest of the new Netflix Instant additions below.
Breaking at the Edge
Ghost Pain
Ghost Tears
Ghost Whispers
Stray Dogs
Along Came Polly
An American Haunting
And the Oscar Goes To...
August. Eighth
Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse
Blood and Sand
Bodyguard
Borderland
The Brothers Bloom
Bulletproof
Cecil B. Demented
Coach Carter
Crazy Eights
Danny Deckchair
Dark Ride
The Deaths of Ian Stone
Departures
Departures: Season 1
Departures: Season 2
Disneynature: Wings of Life
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Enquiring Minds
Expelled
Field of Lost Shoes
Fools Rush In
The Forgotten Kingdom
Four Seasons
Generation Iron
Ghost Graduation
The Ghosts in Our Machine
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gimme Shelter
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Gods of the Arena
Gucci: The Director
Hitch
Home
Hot Pursuit
Houseboat
Into the Blue 2: The Reef
Isolated
Joe
Killer Mermaid
King Arthur
Lake Dead
Lars and the Real Girl
Leaving Las Vegas
Life Stories
Magic City: Season 1
Magic City: Season 2
Mulberry Street
My First Mister
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Naruto Shippuden: The Movie
The New Public
Next Stop Wonderland
Nightmare Man
Now: In the Wings on a World Stage
The Object of Beauty
The Other End of the Line
Paul Williams: Still Alive
Poklosie
Proof
Quest for Fire
Re-Animator
Relationship Status: It's Complicated
Roaring with Pride
RWBY
The Search for Michael Rockefeller
MASH: Season 1
Wildest Africa: Season 1
RWBY: Season 1
Street Food: Season 1
Life Stories: Season 1
Roaring with Pride: Season 1
Wildest Middle East: Season 1
World's Wildest City: Season 1
The Travel Bug: Season 1
Shaun Ryder on UFOs: Season 1
MASH: Season 2
The Travel Bug: Season 2
Wildest Africa: Season 2
MASH: Season 3
MASH: Season 4
MASH: Season 5
Showgirls
Spartacus
Starship Troopers
Steel Magnolias
Street Food
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II
This May Be the Last Time
To Be or Not to Be
The Travel Bug
Ulee's Gold
Unearthed
Vengeance
The Verdict
War of the Damned
We Could Be King
We're No Angels
Wicked Little Things
Zapped
Bob The Builder: Teamwork Time!
Cam Girl
Cunning Single Lady
Das finstere Tal
Fifi Howls from Happiness
Fleabag Monkeyface
Horns
It's Okay, That's Love
Last Hijack
Nights with Théodore
Not Another Happy Ending
Plankton Invasion
Salvo
It's Okay, That's Love: Season 1
Fleabag Monkeyface: Season 1
Is The Media Apologising For Terrorism In The Wake Of Charlie Hebdo?
It's been just over two weeks since the horrific attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, long enough for the initial surges of sadness and anger to die down and be replaced by something resembling more considered reflection. There's been considerable rumination on what the attacks mean for free speech and artistic expression, including by Ruby Hornet's own Hubert Vigilla, questions which eventually spawned a mini-debate of their own over whether Hebdo's representation of Muslims could be classed as racist. Elsewhere, many commentators haved raised the West's perceived responsibility in helping cultivate radicalisation as a result of mismanaged military incursions into the Middle East, notably the 2003 Iraq War.
More recently though, in addition to questions about why the Hebdo murders attracted so much more media attention than the slaughter of two thousand people by Boko Haram in Nigeria, another debate seems to have been gaining traction. This argues that, by the media so consistently using the attacks to raise questions about the West's actions elsewhere or to questions about the morality of the Hebdo covers at the root of the attacks, a process is taking place whereby the attackers themselves are having the responsibility for the murders lifted from their hands and transplanted into the laps of the culture and society which was attacked.
Despite being linked to recent events, the notion of the media being apologists for terrorist atrocities is not new. Its advocates have recently been linking to this blog post by (now deceased) political theorist Norman Geras, written in response to the London bombings in July 2005, a period when the Iraq War was still in its infancy and the world was still trying to make sense of the political and military landscape created in the aftermath of 9/11.
Geras argues that the pervasive culture in response to the bombings has been one of 'I told you so', where every mention of the tragedy of the bombings has to be suffixed with a reminder that it was our actions in the Middle East which must acknowledged as responsible for bringing these horrors to our doorstep. He goes on to mirror such reactions to the shaming of a rape victim rather than the rapist. In his words:
Bob, an occasional but serial rapist, is drawn to women dressed in some particular way. One morning Elaine dresses in that particular way and she crosses Bob's path in circumstances he judges not too risky. He rapes her. Elaine's mode of dress is part of the causal chain which leads to her rape. But she is not at all to blame for being raped.
The fact that something someone else does contributes causally to a crime or atrocity, doesn't show that they, as well as the direct agent(s), are morally responsible for that crime or atrocity, if what they have contributed causally is not itself wrong and doesn't serve to justify it. Furthemore, even when what someone else has contributed causally to the occurrence of the criminal or atrocious act is wrong, this won't necessarily show they bear any of the blame for it.
Others have argued that by using the terrorists' stated motives - blasphemy against the Prophet Muhamed - as a basis for condemning our own behaviour, we are perpetuating what this article by Yasmin Baruchi calls an 'us versus them' narrative, playing into the hands of extremist clerics using division as a tool of radicalisation. By debating whether Charlie Hebdo is racist against Muslims and accepting as a starting point that the cover in question was an act of blasphemy, Baruchi argues that rather than healing wounds, it has opened new ones by encouraging the perception that Muslims are mistreated, targeted and disrespected in Western society.
As author Jeremy Duns so succinctly tweeted on January 10th of this year:
Any fascist can murder cartoonists and simply say they were motivated by Abu Ghraib and somehow Bush and Blair share the blame. Brilliant.
There's a great deal in these arguments I disagree with. As was my response to Mr. Duns at the time, the danger of adopting these attitudes is that it risks encouraging the view that the West is nothing but a blameless victim, existing outside a cause-and-effect universe where events such as the occupation of a sovereign nation and power vacuum left behind can be given a free pass for possible consequences further down the line - even if those consequences involve our society subsequently becoming victims.
That, too, is where my issue with Mr. Geras' rape analogy arises. In this instance, the Charlie Hebdo attacks were undeniably a horrific attack on our culture and our society, yet Geras' metaphor (albeit for a different tragedy) neglects to take into account that such attacks are not isolated incidents but the latest in a long line, as tragic and shameful as the loss of life always is, but also inexorably linked to one another. Before these attacks, there were the myriad atrocities of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as drone warfare in Pakistan. Before that, there was 9/11. Before that, there was the first Gulf War, and so on. This chain goes back a very, very long way, leaving scars inflicted by both sides as far back as history records. A more appropriate metaphor might be gang warfare, where both sides alternate between being the victims and perpetrators of violence.
Geras, Baruchi and Duns are correct in calling out commentators who use these tragedies as a means of gaining backdoor support for their political views in much the same way that extremist clerics do to radicalise their followers. Just as there must be a time for self-reflection, it is equally important to honour the victims with a period of apolitical mourning, when we acknowledge the sadness of more needless death without turning it into propaganda. Considering the long and violent history of conflict between Western and Islamic cultures and ideologies, the media's readiness to lay the threat of terrorism solely at the door of the Iraq War is undeniably short-sighted: as Salman Rushdie would attest, Islamic extremism is hardly an invention of the 21st century.
I am, however, far from convinced that to make such a case involves morally absolving the Hebdo killers of the entirety of the blame for their crimes. Myopic and politically motivated, perhaps, but reflecting on how a murderer's background might have led to their crimes is not the same as letting them go free or diminishing their sentence. It is searching for clues as to what led an atrocity to occur and what it might be possible to do to stop it happening again. Perhaps, in the case of preventing terrorism, that means recognising mistakes we might have made in the past. Perhaps it means accepting that sometimes evil exists simply because it can, using outside circumstances as an excuse to justify itself. Humanity's need to find order in chaos can often be misguided or misappropriated, but if by hook or by crook it ends with one fewer instance of bloodshed on either side, I'd say it's worth persevering with.
[Weekly Netflix Fix] Automata Makes an Appearance
Combining both last week's and this week's list of additions makes up this installment of Weekly Netflix Fix. Yet, despite consisting of two weeks' of updates, there isn't much of anything to note, save for the Antonio Banderas-starring Automata. Nevertheless, you can find the full lost of recent additions below.
Patton Oswalt: Tragedy Plus Comedy...
As the Light Goes Out
Open Road
Ribbit
The Adventures of Puss in Boots
An American Tail: Night Monster
The Bag Man
Blood and Ties
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
Death Comes to Pemberley
The Elephant Princess
House of Last Things
Johnny English Reborn
Kids for Cash
Red Hollywood
Sirens: Season 1
The Adventures of Puss in Boots: Season 1
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!: Season 1
Crossing Lines: Season 2
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!: Season 2
Octonauts: Season 2
Wolfblood: Season 3
The Elephant Princess: Series 1
The Fall: Series 2
Sirens
Slugterra: Ghoul from Beyond
Slugterra: Return of the Elementals
A Small Section of the World
Sooper Se Ooper
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents
Vito
Way of Life
Zombies: When the Dead Walk
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
America Unearthed
America's Book of Secrets
America: The Story of Us
American Pickers: Collection
American Restoration: Collection
Ancient Aliens: Collection
And Baby Will Fall
Beyond Scared Straight!
The Big Rig Bounty Hunters
The Bling Ring
Confucius
Counting Cars: Collection
Dance Moms: Collection
Double Divas
Double Wedding
Duck Dynasty: Collection
The Eleventh Victim
Fatal Honeymoon
The First 48: Collection
Gangland: Collection
Gangsters: America's Most Evil
Gettysburg
History's Mysteries: Secret Societies
Hoarders: Collection
How Sex Changed the World
How the States Got Their Shapes
Ice Road Truckers: Collection
Intervention: Collection
Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret
Jodi Picoult's Salem Falls
The Kennedys
A Killer Among Us
The Killer Speaks
The Killing Game
Liz & Dick
Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story
Mankind: Decoded
Mankind: The Story of All of Us: Season 1
Matters of Life & Dating
The Men Who Built America
Modern Marvels: Collection
Mountain Men
The Murder of Princess Diana
Obsessed
Pawn Stars: Collection
Preachers' Daughters
Preachers' Daughters: Season 1
The Pregnancy Project
Restless Virgins
Reviving Ophelia
Ring of Fire
Obsessed: Season 1
Stan Lee's Superhumans: Season 1
How the States Got Their Shapes: Season 1
America's Book of Secrets: Season 1
Mountain Men: Season 1
Wahlburgers: Season 1
The Big Rig Bounty Hunters: Season 1
Mankind: Decoded: Season 1
How Sex Changed the World: Season 1
The Men Who Built America: Season 1
Gangsters: America's Most Evil: Season 1
Double Divas: Season 1
The Killer Speaks: Season 1
America Unearthed: Season 1
Obsessed: Season 2
How the States Got Their Shapes: Season 2
Mountain Men: Season 2
Gangsters: America's Most Evil: Season 2
America's Book of Secrets: Season 2
Shipping Wars: Season 2
Shipping Wars: Season 3
Beyond Scared Straight!: Season 4
Beyond Scared Straight!: Season 5
Secrets in the Walls
Secrets of Eden
She Made Them Do It
Shipping Wars: Season 1
Stalkers
Stan Lee's Superhumans
Stan Lee's Superhumans: Season 2
Storage Wars: Collection
The Story of Us
Swamp People: Collection
Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
Top Shot: Collection
True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
Twist of Fate
The Universe: Collection
Vietnam in HD
Wahlburgers
William & Kate
WWII in HD
Bird People
Being Human (U.S.): Season 4
Death Comes to Pemberley: Series 1
Steve Treviño: Relatable
Viktor
Wetlands
AFHV: Playtime Ain't for Wimps
Locked Up in America
Playtime Ain't for Wimps
Locked Up in America: Season 1
Ardennes Fury
Automata
In the Name of God
Zoom: Academy for Superheroes
Will Follow
Z Nation: Season 1
Sliding Doors
The Winning Season
Amazon to Begin Producing, Distributing Theatrical Films
Following the success of their TV pilot program (thanks in no small part for Transparent's success at the Golden Globes), Amazon Studios is entering the film fray, but in an opposite manner than what most may have expected. Whereas Netflix has entered the film industry with a model that will premiere their films through their service, Amazon Studios will acquire film properties with intentions of distributing them through theaters with films appearing on Amazon Instant a few months after their theatrical releases.
According to Variety, Amazon Studios plans to produce around 12 films a year, with the first films under the new directive debuting later in 2015. The model will be similar to the ones other independent studios have followed (like Magnolia and IFC) where films would be available on VOD at the same time as their limited theatrical release dates. However, given the growing nature of the film industry and how important box office sales are, most theaters might balk at the idea of even screening Amazon Studios films under this model, which in turn would severely limit the potential of Amazon's growth in this field.
The venture is ambitious, especially with the notion of a film being released every month in a calendar year, but Amazon could find success. Given the success with their TV series, they have a formula for finding the proper projects to fund that could yield a positive outcome with their film venture.
[via /Film]
87th Oscars Nominations
In case you missed this morning's live stream announcement of the 87th annual Oscars nominations, here's a quick list of all of them! We'll have more on The Oscars soon.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Steve Carell in “Foxcatcher”
Bradley Cooper in “American Sniper”
Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game”
Michael Keaton in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Eddie Redmayne in “The Theory of Everything”
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Robert Duvall in “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke in “Boyhood”
Edward Norton in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Mark Ruffalo in “Foxcatcher”
J.K. Simmons in “Whiplash”
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Marion Cotillard in “Two Days, One Night”
Felicity Jones in “The Theory of Everything”
Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”
Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon in “Wild”
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Laura Dern in “Wild”
Keira Knightley in “The Imitation Game”
Emma Stone in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Meryl Streep in “Into the Woods”
Best animated feature film of the year
“Big Hero 6” Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
“The Boxtrolls” Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
“How to Train Your Dragon 2” Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
“Song of the Sea” Tomm Moore and Paul Young
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura
Achievement in cinematography
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Emmanuel Lubezki
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Robert Yeoman
“Ida” Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
“Mr. Turner” Dick Pope
“Unbroken” Roger Deakins
Achievement in costume design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Milena Canonero
“Inherent Vice” Mark Bridges
“Into the Woods” Colleen Atwood
“Maleficent” Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive
“Mr. Turner” Jacqueline Durran
Achievement in directing
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Alejandro G. Iñárritu
“Boyhood” Richard Linklater
“Foxcatcher” Bennett Miller
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Wes Anderson
“The Imitation Game” Morten Tyldum
Best documentary feature
“CitizenFour” Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
“Finding Vivian Maier” John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
“Last Days in Vietnam” Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
“The Salt of the Earth” Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David Rosier
“Virunga” Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
Best documentary short subject
“Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1” Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
“Joanna” Aneta Kopacz
“Our Curse” Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki
“The Reaper (La Parka)” Gabriel Serra Arguello
“White Earth” J. Christian Jensen
Achievement in film editing
“American Sniper” Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
“Boyhood” Sandra Adair
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Barney Pilling
“The Imitation Game” William Goldenberg
“Whiplash” Tom Cross
Best foreign language film of the year
“Ida” Poland
“Leviathan” Russia
“Tangerines” Estonia
“Timbuktu” Mauritania
“Wild Tales” Argentina
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
“Foxcatcher” Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
“Guardians of the Galaxy” Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Alexandre Desplat
“The Imitation Game” Alexandre Desplat
“Interstellar” Hans Zimmer
“Mr. Turner” Gary Yershon
“The Theory of Everything” Jóhann Jóhannsson
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“Everything Is Awesome” from “The Lego Movie”
Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
“Glory” from “Selma”
Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
“Grateful” from “Beyond the Lights”
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from “Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
“Lost Stars” from “Begin Again”
Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois
Best motion picture of the year
“American Sniper” Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan, Producers
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers
“Boyhood” Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland, Producers
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson, Producers
“The Imitation Game” Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman, Producers
“Selma” Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
“The Theory of Everything” Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten, Producers
“Whiplash” Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster, Producers
Achievement in production design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
“The Imitation Game” Production Design: Maria Djurkovic; Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald
“Interstellar” Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
“Into the Woods” Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
“Mr. Turner” Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Charlotte Watts
Best animated short film
“The Bigger Picture” Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
“The Dam Keeper” Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
“Feast” Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
“Me and My Moulton” Torill Kove
“A Single Life” Joris Oprins
Best live action short film
“Aya” Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
“Boogaloo and Graham” Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
“Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)” Hu Wei and Julien Féret
“Parvaneh” Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
“The Phone Call” Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
Achievement in sound editing
“American Sniper” Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Martín Hernández and Aaron Glascock
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
“Interstellar” Richard King
“Unbroken” Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro
Achievement in sound mixing
“American Sniper” John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
“Interstellar” Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
“Unbroken” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
“Whiplash” Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
Achievement in visual effects
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
“Guardians of the Galaxy” Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
“Interstellar” Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
“X-Men: Days of Future Past” Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer
Adapted screenplay
“American Sniper” Written by Jason Hall
“The Imitation Game” Written by Graham Moore
“Inherent Vice” Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
“The Theory of Everything” Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
“Whiplash” Written by Damien Chazelle
Original screenplay
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
“Boyhood” Written by Richard Linklater
“Foxcatcher” Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
“Nightcrawler” Written by Dan Gilroy
87th Oscars Nominations Announcement Live Stream
With the Golden Globes officially under wraps, the film industry is preparing for the 87th Academy Awards. This year, The Oscars nominations will be announced live online via video stream, and we have the announcement video below. Will Boyhood maintain momentum following the Golden Globes and net nominations in the major categories, or will other highly-nominated films like Birdman come in and sweep the Oscars? The road to The Oscars begins right here!
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The Weekly Swarm: 1/5 - 1/11
With the first full week of 2015 in the books, it's safe to say our team has a pretty good idea of the site's direction going forward. We're still holding tight on pulling the trigger on all of the changes, but slowly but surely, you'll see some of our new ideas surface over the weeks to come.
This past week was a very TV-heavy week, given the beginning of the new year. Travis revisited Six Feet Under and how it had an impact on him, Bridjet shared her top/bottom 10 TV shows to watch/avoid in 2015, and Travis also argued why Shameless is the most overlooked show on cable right now. Outside of TV, Hubert does what he does best, editorializing on everything under the sun, with this week's entries on the Charlie Hebdo situation out in France and the trials and tribulations of adapting real life for films.
Check out all of this and more below.
We Were Promised Hoverboards
Top 10 TV Shows to Watch in 2015
On Six Feet Under and Dealing with Death
Nick's Top 10 Pop Songs of 2014
10 TV Shows to Avoid in 2015
Nous Sommes Charlie Hebdo: Terrorism's Losing Battle Against Satire and Artistic Expression
The Taylor Swift Takeover
Why You Should Watch Shameless, Cable's Most Overlooked Series
[The Friday Five] What to Know in Music This Week (1/5 - 1/9)
Lead Actors in The Raid to Appear in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
[Trailer] Ant-Man
[Weekly Netflix Fix] Welcome to 2015
Based on a True Story: Foxcatcher, Selma, and the Controversy of Adapting Real Life
Dutch Photographer's Incredible 20-Year Project
72nd Annual Golden Globes Winners
With last night's airing of the 72nd Annual Golden Globes, the best films and TV series of 2014 finally received their accolades, painting a picture of what to expect from the Oscars next month. Like all awards shows, I disagreed with a lot of the selections, but ultimately agreed on the major categories. Boyhood, my absolute favorite film of 2014, won big with three awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Patricia Arquette, Best Director - Motion Picture for Richard Linklater, and the night's biggest award, Best Motion Picture - Drama. The momentum should carry over to the Oscars, but I wouldn't be surprised if Birdman swoops in and wins some more categories.
The full list of Golden Globes winners is below.
Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Allison Janney, Mom
Michelle Monaghan, True Detective
Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Fargo, FX
The Missing, Starz
The Normal Heart, HBO
Olive Kitteridge, HBO
True Detective, HBO
Best Performance By an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Martin Freeman, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series – Comedy or Musical
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
Taylor Schilling, Orange Is the New Black
Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Girls, HBO
Jane the Virgin, The CW
Orange Is the New Black, Netflix
Silicon Valley, HBO
Transparent, Amazon Instant Video
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game
Jóhann Jóhannsson, The Theory of Everything
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Gone Girl
Antonio Sanchez, Birdman
Hans Zimmer, Interstellar
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Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Big Eyes” from Big Eyes
“Glory” from Selma
“Mercy Is” from Noah
“Opportunity” from Annie
“Yellow Flicker Beat” from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Colin Hanks, Fargo
Bill Murray, Olive Kitteridge
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan
Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Amy Adams, Big Eyes
Emily Blunt, Into the Woods
Helen Mirren, The Hundred-Foot Journey
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Quvenzhané Wallis, Annie
Best Animated Feature Film
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Graham Moore, The Imitation Game
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Louis C.K., Louie
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Ricky Gervais, Derek
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Best Foreign Language Film
Force Majeure Turist, Sweden
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Gett, Israel
Ida, Poland and Denmark
Leviathan, Russia
Tangerines Mandariinid, Estonia
Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge
Frances O’Connor, The Missing
Allison Tolman, Fargo
Best Television Series – Drama
The Affair, Showtime
Downton Abbey, PBS
Game of Thrones, HBO
The Good Wife, CBS
House of Cards, Netflix
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Clive Owen, The Knick
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
James Spader, The Blacklist
Dominic West, The Affair
Best Director – Motion Picture
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay, Selma
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Claire Danes, Homeland
Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Ruth Wilson, The Affair
Robin Wright, House of Cards
Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Bill Murray, St. Vincent
Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice
Christoph Waltz, Big Eyes
Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Pride
St. Vincent
Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
David Oyelowo, Selma
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything