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As we wade deeper and deeper into the 2015 awards season, one thing has become increasingly clear: there are almost no frontrunners in any category. A number of “sure thing” predictions from a few months ago, like Leonardo DiCaprio finally taking home an Oscar statuette for The Revenant, now feel a little more embattled. So far, the early awards from various groups of critics have reflected this. The only movie practically guaranteed to win an Academy Award early next year is Inside Out (and even Pixar has some serious competition).
Before we head into the holiday break, I wanted to share what films and performances a few of the major critics groups have been honoring, and how they are affecting the Oscar race going forward. We’ve heard from the Los Angeles Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review, and the Gotham Awards. We’ll go into the different winners for the top categories, and what they mean. I’ll also have some more analysis of the …
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Delta Air Lines is having an apocalyptically bad day, as all flights have been grounded due to a power outage in all systems — but maybe if outages had only hit the carrier’s in-flight entertainment system, it might have been an improvement? Late last week, it came to light that Delta has been airing an edited version of last year’s lesbian film Carol in which not just sex, but all kissing was removed. The omission was discovered by women reporting on Twitter about their viewings on Delta flights, and the cuts were confirmed by the film’s screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, who offered United and American Airlines as examples of domestic carriers who chose to air the theatrical release.
Richard of PopCults.com "If there is one thing that can be said for certain about me it is that I am in no way a conventional person. I’m not so abnormal that I am unrelatable or alien; but a lot of my likes, hobbies and even everyday way I go about things in life is in no way the way a majority of people would do so in life. ... I guess that is why when I tried to come up with a list of romantic movies for couples to watch leading up to Valentine’s Day not one of the five films on the list would be classified as your typical romantic movie. In fact, four of them are rather out there and barely dances on the fringes of being romantic while the one that is the closest to your cookie-cutter romance film is more of a chance encounters kind of film than a true romance movie. Still, I believe that these films do convey the message of love and understanding and romance that any other conventional film would. They may not be your typical Sleepless in Seattle, Love Story, The Notebook or even Titanic, but the message is still clearly embedded in them about what the main attraction of the film is. So please enjoy, and do try to keep an open mind about them… I promise you – they will entertain you."
