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Black Swan Jetées Away With The Win At The 2011 Independent Spirit Award

A chilly pack of hipster filmmakers crowded into a tent in Santa Monica today and decided who amongst them rated as the most awesome as the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards doled out its tin eagles. Check out the full list of winners here.

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Black Swan Jetées Away With The Win At The 2011 Independent Spirit Award

Alonso’s Oscar Picks: The Kids Are All Right, The Oscars Are Not

When I was a little kid, I really, really, really loved the Oscars. For a wee gay movie-obsessed lad growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, it was the sort of annual event to be anticipated with both excitement and reverence. Every year when we’d get the TV Guide issue with the full-page “Close-Up” box on the Oscars, featuring thumbnail pictures of the ten Best Actor and Actress nominees, my heart would race. Before I was old enough that my parents would let me stay up late and watch the whole thing (this was back when the show began at 9 p.m. on the East Coast), I somehow convinced them to nudge me awake at midnight, tell me who won in the major categories, and then I’d roll over and go back to sleep.

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Movieline Predicts the 2011 Golden Globes’ Movie Winners

After checking out our bold, bulletproof predictions from the television side , it’s time for you to see how your Golden Globes ballot squares up with our movie picks. Weigh in below with any comments, concerns, subplots and/or shocking upsets of your own, and we’ll regroup here Sunday night to see where the chips fall. Or rather, drunkenly stumble to the stage, weave to the microphone, and then fall.

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Movieline Predicts the 2011 Golden Globes’ Movie Winners

Movieline Predicts the 2011 Golden Globes’ Movie Winners

After checking out our bold, bulletproof predictions from the television side , it’s time for you to see how your Golden Globes ballot squares up with our movie picks. Weigh in below with any comments, concerns, subplots and/or shocking upsets of your own, and we’ll regroup here Sunday night to see where the chips fall. Or rather, drunkenly stumble to the stage, weave to the microphone, and then fall.

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3 Reasons to Continue to Watch Terriers

FX’ s Terriers premiered last night in a fun blitz of crime, whimsy, and Donal Logue’s Crazy Heart facial hair. I’ll stick around for a few more episodes — and you should too, gumshoes. Here’s why.

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3 Reasons to Continue to Watch Terriers

Have Television Shows Surpassed Movies in the Pop Culture Landscape?

In today’s edition of the New York Times , film critic A.O. Scott surveys the wreckage of a summer of bad movies (my eyes still burn from Eat, Pray, Love ) and wonders if “any of the movies surfacing this fall [will] provoke the kind of conversation that television series routinely do, breaking beyond niches into something larger.” Well, hopefully! But in his lament of the lameness of the film industry, isn’t Scott giving the television industry a bit too much credit?

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Have Television Shows Surpassed Movies in the Pop Culture Landscape?

All Your Summer Favorites Trashed in New n+1 Film Section

The aesthetes at n+1 always seem to come back to movies in their long history of cultural criticism. (Come on; six years is forever these days.) And now look at them with their brand-new film section led by A.S. Hamrah , who delivers nothing but the finest takes on The Kids Are All Right (“only slightly less conservative than Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds “), Sex and the City 2 (“a low point in the history of American pop culture”), Inception (“People whose dream movie is a bad movie about dreams that are like bad movies are f*cked”), and more. At least they liked Winter’s Bone . [ n+1 via Looker ]

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All Your Summer Favorites Trashed in New n+1 Film Section

Attractions: Despicable Who?

Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your one-stop guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or nostalgia inducing at the movies. This week brings what appears to be one of the most consistent, dependably watchable — and even good! — batch of releases to theaters, including what I imagine might turn out to be this year’s Hurt Locker . Not that you’d know it by looking at it. Read on and allow me to explain.

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Attractions: Despicable Who?

The Kids Are All Right Trailer: Annette and Julianne’s Modern Family

You may remember that at Sundance this year, Movieline flipped for Lisa Cholodenko’s comedy The Kids are All Right , which stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as lesbian parents, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson as their children, Mark Ruffalo as their sperm donor, and Annette Benining’s omnipresent glass of red wine as itself. So, what are we to make of this new trailer advertising the film?

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The Kids Are All Right Trailer: Annette and Julianne’s Modern Family