Houston Film Critics Society is a not-for-profit, unincorporated voluntary organizaton of print, broadcast, and internet film critics based in the Greater Houston metropolitan area that meet its membership criteria. According its website, the group was founded in 2007 by Nick Nicholson and Danny Minton and helps to organize and coordinate the local area film critics community.
The nominees for the 9th annual Houston Film Critics Society Awards were announced, December 13, 2015. The winners were announced January 9, 2016.
2015 / 9th Houston Film Critics Society nominees:
BEST PICTURE:
The Big Short, Paramount
Ex Machina, A24 Films
Inside Out, Disney/PIXAR
Mad Max: Fury Road, Warner Bros.
The Martian, 20th Century Fox
The Revenant, 20th Century Fox
Room, A24 Films
Sicario, Lionsgate
Spotlight, Open Road Films
Steve Jobs, Universal
BEST DIRECTION OF A MOTION PICTURE:
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Ridley Scott, The Martian
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Brian Cranston, Trumbo
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Matt Damon, The Martian
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Tom Hardy, Legend
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Brie Larsen, Room
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
Emily Blunt, Sicario
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon, 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Rooney Mara, Carol
BEST SCREENPLAY:
Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Drew Goddard, The Martian
Emma Donaghu, Room
Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
BEST ANIMATED FILM:
Anomalisa, Paramount
The Good Dinosaur, Disney/PIXAR
Inside Out, Disney/PIXAR
The Peanuts Movie, 20th Century Fox
Shaun the Sheep, StudioCanal
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Dariusz Wolski, The Martian
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight
Roger Deakins, Sicario
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Amy, Altitude Film Distribution
Best of Enemies, Magnolia
Cartel Land, IFC Films
The Look of Silence, Drafthouse Films
Where to Invade Next, IMG Films
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
The Assassin, Well Go USA
Goodnight Mommy, Radius/TWC
Son of Saul, Sony Pictures Classic
The Tribe, Drafthouse Films
White God, Magnolia
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Ennio Moriccone, The Hateful Eight
Michael Giacchino, Inside Out
Junkie XL, Mad Max: Fury Road
Daniel Pemberton, Steve Jobs
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner, The Revenant
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
“Love Me Like You Do,” music & lyrics by Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Tove Lo, Max Martin & Ali Payami, 50 Shades of Grey
“One Kind of Love,” music & lyrics by Brian Wilson & Scott Bennett, Love & Mercy
“See You Again,” music & lyrics by Wiz Khalifa, DJ Frank E, Charlie Puth & Andrew Cedar, Furious 7
“Simple Song #3,” music & lyrics by David Lang, Youth
“Writing’s on the Wall,” music & lyrics by Sam Smith & Jimmy Napes, Spectre
TEXAS INDEPENDENT FILM AWARD:
6 Years
7 Chinese Brothers
Last Man on the Moon
Results
Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove
BEST POSTER
Carol – Theatrical Poster
Ex Machina – Theatrical Poster
It Follows – Rear Window Alternate
Mad Max: Fury Road – ‘What A Lovely Day’ Alternate
Sicario – Theatrical Poster
The Walk – IMAX Alternate
WORST FILM OF THE YEAR:
Aloha, Columbia
The Boy Next Door, Universal
Fantastic Four, 20th Century Fox
Mortdecai, Lionsgate
Pixels, Columbia
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Monday, January 25, 2016
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Announces Sweep Series of Changes
ACADEMY TAKES HISTORIC ACTION TO INCREASE DIVERSITY
Lifetime voting rights reframed; new governor seats added and committees restructured
Goal to double number of diverse members by 2020
In a unanimous vote Thursday night (1/21), the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved a sweeping series of substantive changes designed to make the Academy’s membership, its governing bodies, and its voting members significantly more diverse. The Board’s goal is to commit to doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020.
“The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition.”
Beginning later this year, each new member’s voting status will last 10 years, and will be renewed if that new member has been active in motion pictures during that decade. In addition, members will receive lifetime voting rights after three ten-year terms; or if they have won or been nominated for an Academy Award. We will apply these same standards retroactively to current members. In other words, if a current member has not been active in the last 10 years they can still qualify by meeting the other criteria. Those who do not qualify for active status will be moved to emeritus status. Emeritus members do not pay dues but enjoy all the privileges of membership, except voting. This will not affect voting for this year’s Oscars.
At the same time, the Academy will supplement the traditional process in which current members sponsor new members by launching an ambitious, global campaign to identify and recruit qualified new members who represent greater diversity.
In order to immediately increase diversity on the Board of Governors, the Academy will establish three new governor seats that will be nominated by the President for three-year terms and confirmed by the Board.
The Academy will also take immediate action to increase diversity by adding new members who are not Governors to its executive and board committees where key decisions about membership and governance are made. This will allow new members an opportunity to become more active in Academy decision-making and help the organization identify and nurture future leaders.
Along with Boone Isaacs, the Board’s Membership and Administration Committee, chaired by Academy Governor Phil Robinson, led the efforts to enact these initiatives.
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Lifetime voting rights reframed; new governor seats added and committees restructured
Goal to double number of diverse members by 2020
In a unanimous vote Thursday night (1/21), the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved a sweeping series of substantive changes designed to make the Academy’s membership, its governing bodies, and its voting members significantly more diverse. The Board’s goal is to commit to doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020.
“The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition.”
Beginning later this year, each new member’s voting status will last 10 years, and will be renewed if that new member has been active in motion pictures during that decade. In addition, members will receive lifetime voting rights after three ten-year terms; or if they have won or been nominated for an Academy Award. We will apply these same standards retroactively to current members. In other words, if a current member has not been active in the last 10 years they can still qualify by meeting the other criteria. Those who do not qualify for active status will be moved to emeritus status. Emeritus members do not pay dues but enjoy all the privileges of membership, except voting. This will not affect voting for this year’s Oscars.
At the same time, the Academy will supplement the traditional process in which current members sponsor new members by launching an ambitious, global campaign to identify and recruit qualified new members who represent greater diversity.
In order to immediately increase diversity on the Board of Governors, the Academy will establish three new governor seats that will be nominated by the President for three-year terms and confirmed by the Board.
The Academy will also take immediate action to increase diversity by adding new members who are not Governors to its executive and board committees where key decisions about membership and governance are made. This will allow new members an opportunity to become more active in Academy decision-making and help the organization identify and nurture future leaders.
Along with Boone Isaacs, the Board’s Membership and Administration Committee, chaired by Academy Governor Phil Robinson, led the efforts to enact these initiatives.
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Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs Issues Statement on 88th Oscar Nominations
STATEMENT FROM ACADEMY PRESIDENT CHERYL BOONE ISAACS
I’d like to acknowledge the wonderful work of this year’s nominees. While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion. This is a difficult but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes. The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond.
As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years. But the change is not coming as fast as we would like. We need to do more, and better and more quickly.
This isn’t unprecedented for the Academy. In the ‘60s and ‘70s it was about recruiting younger members to stay vital and relevant. In 2016, the mandate is inclusion in all of its facets: gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. We recognize the very real concerns of our community, and I so appreciate all of you who have reached out to me in our effort to move forward together.
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I’d like to acknowledge the wonderful work of this year’s nominees. While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion. This is a difficult but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes. The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond.
As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years. But the change is not coming as fast as we would like. We need to do more, and better and more quickly.
This isn’t unprecedented for the Academy. In the ‘60s and ‘70s it was about recruiting younger members to stay vital and relevant. In 2016, the mandate is inclusion in all of its facets: gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. We recognize the very real concerns of our community, and I so appreciate all of you who have reached out to me in our effort to move forward together.
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Image Comics Announces Finale for Debut Story Arc of "Black Magick"
New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka (LAZARUS, Stumptown, Gotham Central) and superstar artist Nicola Scott (Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Earth 2) will conclude the first story arc in their ongoing gothic noir series BLACK MAGICK this February.
Previously in BLACK MAGICK, Detective Rowan Black found herself tangled up in a decidedly occult investigation—despite her efforts to keep her work and private lives separate—that quickly became quite personal.
In BLACK MAGICK #5, the first chapter comes to a conclusion, and it’s a trial by divination.
“This issue concludes the first half of the first ‘act’—and it upends the table,” said Rucka. “We start to see more of what not only what Rowan can do, but what Alex is capable of, as well; but more crucially, we get the first real reveal of what it is they’re up against. And it isn’t pretty. Literally and figuratively.”
“Rowan, Alex, pretty much everyone, has way more to fear than they thought,” said Scott. “Something's creeping through the cracks and the manipulation has just started.”
BLACK MAGICK #5 Cover A by Nicola Scott (Diamond code: DEC150569) hits stores Wednesday, February 24th. BLACK MAGICK #5 Cover B by Stephanie Hans (Diamond code: DEC150570) will also be available Wednesday, February 24th, 2016. Final order cutoff deadline for retailers is Monday, February 1st, 2016.
ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
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Saturday, January 23, 2016
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from January 17th to 23rd, 2016 - Update #57
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POLITICS: From RSN: Michael Moore - Flint water poisoning is a "racial crime."
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MOVIES: From Variety: Sony rebooting Jim Henson's "Labyrinth."
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COMICS - From CBR: Kevin Smith says that DC Entertainment higher-ups are considering a DC Movie/TV crossover for sometime in the future.
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POLITICS - From YahooNews: GOP presidential candidates have been quiet about Flint Michigan water crisis. So has Faux News.
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AWARDS - From BlackReelAwards: 16th annual Black Reel Awards nominations.
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COMICS - From CinemaBlend: Deadpool movie looking at a big opening weekend.
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OSCARS - From ATTN: New York Post has fun with the blizzard and #OscarsSoWhite.
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RACE - From ThinkProgress: Once upon a time, armed black people bucked the government, and they were killed - unlike the White militia at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
Speaking of - From ThinkProgress: Ursula K. Le Guin sacks Ammon Bundy and his Klan-lings and the newspaper that parrots their nonsense.
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POLITICS - From RSN: Oliver Stone speaks of war-mongering on the part of both Republicans and Democrats.
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CULTURE - From USMagazine: "Actress" Stacey Dash hits back at BET.
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CRIME - From YahooNews: Ex-Oklahoma City police officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, preyed on women in poor neighborhoods and raped at least 13. He was recently sentenced to 263 years in prison.
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CULTURE: From TheVox: Netflix's "Making a Murderer" reveals the systematic problems of the American justice system.
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MOVIES - From EcoWatch: Leonardo DiCaprio says that film "The Revenant" drove home the need to take action on climate change.
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COMICS: From BusinessInsider: Warner Bros. is planning 11 superhero movies through 2020, and most look horrible.
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MUSIC: From TheVillageVoice: The 2015 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll and the Year in Music.
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TRAILER - From Vulture: The red band trailer for Key & Peele's upcoming film, Keanu, has been released.
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OSCARS - From Vulture: Oscar nominee, this year, Mark Ruffalo, is weighing skipping the Oscar ceremony.
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OSCARS - From YahooTV: Will Smith will not attend this year's Oscar ceremony, as his wife is skipping the ceremony also.
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COMICS - From ComicBookBin: Herve St. Louis, the owner of the Bin and the creator of the webcomic strip, "Johnny Bullet," talks about the difficulties of reader surveys.
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COMICS - From BleedingCool: The best work I've ever done says Hellboy creator, Mike Mignola.
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MOVIES - From THR: Nate Turner talks about his hot Sundance film, "Birth of a Nation."
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MOVIES - From THR: Paramount has taken "Terminator 2" off its release schedule and replaced it with the "Baywatch" movie - which I did not know was going to happen.
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OSCARS - From THR: Academy members defend votes - "to imply we are racists is extremely offensive."
Also From THR: Scott Feinberg, awards analyst, on Oscar omissions.
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STAR WARS - From YahooMovies: Star Wars Episode 8 has a new release date moving from May 2017 to December 15, 2017.
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MOVIES - From TheGuardian: Jamie Foxx with the help of an as-yet unnamed paramedic pulled a young man from a burning car.
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COMICS - From YahooMovies: See the "Wonder Woman" clip that played on The CW. The movie resembles "Captain America: The First Avenger." I am not crazy about Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.
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MOVIES - From ComicBook: DC Films releases logos from upcoming movies, including Flash and Cyborg.
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Jennifer Lawrence to play Fidel Castro's lover in a film written by "American Hustle" scribe, Eric Warren Singer.
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COMICS - From YahooMovies: See the first "Suicide Squad" trailer.
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OSCAR - From YahooMovies: David Oyelowo speaks on #OscarsSoWhite.
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COMICS - From CBR: Steve Rogers to return as Captain America.
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POLITICS - From RSN: Michael Moore calls for President Obama to go to Flint, Michigan in the middle of water crisis.
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AWARDS - From Variety: "Carol" dominates Dorian Awards.
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COMICS - From YahooTV: See the first official picture of the entire Justice League team of DC Films.
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COMICS - From CBB: My review of Vol. 10 of the manga, Terra Formars.
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OSCARS - From YahooTV: I am a fan of Whoopi Goldberg, but she made an ass of herself in this #OscarsSoWhite debate on "The View."
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OSCARS - From Variety: George Clooney says we're moving in the wrong direction, concerning #OscarsSoWhite.
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Vin Diesel posts "Fast 8" poster on Instagram.
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TV - From Vulture: Cuba Gooding, Jr. talks about playing O.J. Simpson in FX's upcoming, "The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story."
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RACE - From HuffingtonPost: Back in December, a Black woman died after being forcibly removed from hospital.
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OBIT - From YahooMusic: The singer-songwriter and musician Glenn Frey has died at the age of 67 (Monday, January 18, 2016). He was a founding member of The Eagles, one of the most popular recording acts in the history of music. I still really love his solo hit song, "The Heat is On," the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack.
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CULTURE - From YahooCelebrity: Hannibal Buress still dealing with the aftermath of his Bill Cosby rape joke that started the legendary comedians downfall.
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POLITICS - From RSN: Bernie Sanders healthcare plan would cover everyone (not Hillary's) and it would be administered by the federal government and not by the states... according to RSN.
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OSCARS - From Variety: Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith call for boycott of 88th Oscars.
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SPORTS - From NBCSports: Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin sheds tears in the locker room after his team's painful loss to the Denver Broncos. It is not his fault that the NFL is in the tank for another Brady-Manning matchup.
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CULTURE - From TheVox: Her husband was a rapist, yet the wife also had to answer for his crimes, although she had committed no crime.
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AWARDS - From Variety: 2016 Critics Choice Awards winners.
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COMICS - From CBB: New episode of Johnny Bullet (#57) in English
COMICS - From CBB: New episode of Johnny Bullet (#57) in French
COMICS - From CBB: New episode of Constant (#23 - Chapter Two, Page 1)
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CULTURE - From NRM: Go to the Norman Rockwell Museum to see his classic Civil Rights painting, "The Problem We All Live With."
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MOVIES: From BoxOfficeMojo: "Ride Along 2" wins the 01/15 to 01/17/2016 weekend box office with an estimated take of $34 million. Monday will also be part of the Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
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NEWS - From YahooNews: This is the 30th anniversary of MLK Day, and in South Carolina, the celebration is even bigger now that the Confederate flag over the capitol building was taken down.
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MOVIES - From SlashFilm: Tyler Perry on why he joined TMNT 2 and on Oscars and how to fix lack of diversity.
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COMIC BOOKS - From YahooMovies: The new posters for the "Suicide Squad" film debut.
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NEWS - From ThinkProgess: Another video that Chicago is forced to release shows a police officer shooting an unarmed black teenager.
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CULTURE - From ThinkProgess: The phony debate about political correctness. " It's a get out of jail free card for bigotry, sexism, and lying."
NEWS - From TheIntercept: What is the real story about the U.S. Navy boats that "drifted" into Iranian waters.
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From RSN: A doctor who treats concussions and is an NFL fans says the league is unethical.
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COMICS - From WarrenEllis: Warren Ellis updates his readers and shares 3 questions he asked author Joe Hill (Stephen King's son who is also an author).
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NEWS - From RSN: Flint lives in fear of lead from the drinking water, and the citizens fear that they may already have lead poisoning.
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POLITICS: From YahooNews: Did you know that three Southern states honor Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Day? Mississippi (of course), Alabama (no doubt), and Arkansas (typical). Well, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson want to change that.
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OSCARS - From GuardianUS: White Hollywood parents of black children should speak about diversity for awards.
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POLITICS - From USUncut: 5 things to know about the Oregon militia movement.
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WORLD NEWS - From LATimes: The U.S. and Iran swap prisoners.
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COMICS - From CBR: Jim Johnson reviews the relaunch of the Uncanny X-Men comic book.
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COMICS FILM - From CBR: There is a petition for a PG-13 cut of the upcoming "Deadpool" film, which is being released with an "R" rating.
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COMICS TV - From CBR: FX's X-Men-related series, "Legion" will take place in an "alternate universe" not connected to the X-Men film series.
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MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: 15 great and unique directors who have never received a best director Oscar nomination.
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TV - From ThePlaylist: Netflix is developing a "Punisher" series.
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OSCARS - From BoxOfficeMojo: A look at the 2016 best picture Oscar nominees and their grosses.
OSCARS: From TheDailyBeast: The Oscars are racist...
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From YouTube: "13 Hours" featurettes - Tig & Dominic; Tanto & Pablo; “Oz & Max” Featurette - https://youtu.be/mSdYKWjoHeg
POLITICS: From RSN: Michael Moore - Flint water poisoning is a "racial crime."
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MOVIES: From Variety: Sony rebooting Jim Henson's "Labyrinth."
---------------
COMICS - From CBR: Kevin Smith says that DC Entertainment higher-ups are considering a DC Movie/TV crossover for sometime in the future.
--------------
POLITICS - From YahooNews: GOP presidential candidates have been quiet about Flint Michigan water crisis. So has Faux News.
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AWARDS - From BlackReelAwards: 16th annual Black Reel Awards nominations.
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COMICS - From CinemaBlend: Deadpool movie looking at a big opening weekend.
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OSCARS - From ATTN: New York Post has fun with the blizzard and #OscarsSoWhite.
---------------
RACE - From ThinkProgress: Once upon a time, armed black people bucked the government, and they were killed - unlike the White militia at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
Speaking of - From ThinkProgress: Ursula K. Le Guin sacks Ammon Bundy and his Klan-lings and the newspaper that parrots their nonsense.
---------------
POLITICS - From RSN: Oliver Stone speaks of war-mongering on the part of both Republicans and Democrats.
---------------
CULTURE - From USMagazine: "Actress" Stacey Dash hits back at BET.
---------------
CRIME - From YahooNews: Ex-Oklahoma City police officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, preyed on women in poor neighborhoods and raped at least 13. He was recently sentenced to 263 years in prison.
---------------
CULTURE: From TheVox: Netflix's "Making a Murderer" reveals the systematic problems of the American justice system.
---------------
MOVIES - From EcoWatch: Leonardo DiCaprio says that film "The Revenant" drove home the need to take action on climate change.
---------------
COMICS: From BusinessInsider: Warner Bros. is planning 11 superhero movies through 2020, and most look horrible.
---------------
MUSIC: From TheVillageVoice: The 2015 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll and the Year in Music.
---------------
TRAILER - From Vulture: The red band trailer for Key & Peele's upcoming film, Keanu, has been released.
---------------
OSCARS - From Vulture: Oscar nominee, this year, Mark Ruffalo, is weighing skipping the Oscar ceremony.
---------------
OSCARS - From YahooTV: Will Smith will not attend this year's Oscar ceremony, as his wife is skipping the ceremony also.
---------------
COMICS - From ComicBookBin: Herve St. Louis, the owner of the Bin and the creator of the webcomic strip, "Johnny Bullet," talks about the difficulties of reader surveys.
---------------
COMICS - From BleedingCool: The best work I've ever done says Hellboy creator, Mike Mignola.
---------------
MOVIES - From THR: Nate Turner talks about his hot Sundance film, "Birth of a Nation."
---------------
MOVIES - From THR: Paramount has taken "Terminator 2" off its release schedule and replaced it with the "Baywatch" movie - which I did not know was going to happen.
---------------
OSCARS - From THR: Academy members defend votes - "to imply we are racists is extremely offensive."
Also From THR: Scott Feinberg, awards analyst, on Oscar omissions.
---------------
STAR WARS - From YahooMovies: Star Wars Episode 8 has a new release date moving from May 2017 to December 15, 2017.
---------------
MOVIES - From TheGuardian: Jamie Foxx with the help of an as-yet unnamed paramedic pulled a young man from a burning car.
---------------
COMICS - From YahooMovies: See the "Wonder Woman" clip that played on The CW. The movie resembles "Captain America: The First Avenger." I am not crazy about Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.
---------------
MOVIES - From ComicBook: DC Films releases logos from upcoming movies, including Flash and Cyborg.
---------------
MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Jennifer Lawrence to play Fidel Castro's lover in a film written by "American Hustle" scribe, Eric Warren Singer.
---------------
COMICS - From YahooMovies: See the first "Suicide Squad" trailer.
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OSCAR - From YahooMovies: David Oyelowo speaks on #OscarsSoWhite.
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COMICS - From CBR: Steve Rogers to return as Captain America.
---------------
POLITICS - From RSN: Michael Moore calls for President Obama to go to Flint, Michigan in the middle of water crisis.
---------------
AWARDS - From Variety: "Carol" dominates Dorian Awards.
---------------
COMICS - From YahooTV: See the first official picture of the entire Justice League team of DC Films.
---------------
COMICS - From CBB: My review of Vol. 10 of the manga, Terra Formars.
---------------
OSCARS - From YahooTV: I am a fan of Whoopi Goldberg, but she made an ass of herself in this #OscarsSoWhite debate on "The View."
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OSCARS - From Variety: George Clooney says we're moving in the wrong direction, concerning #OscarsSoWhite.
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Vin Diesel posts "Fast 8" poster on Instagram.
---------------
TV - From Vulture: Cuba Gooding, Jr. talks about playing O.J. Simpson in FX's upcoming, "The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story."
---------------
RACE - From HuffingtonPost: Back in December, a Black woman died after being forcibly removed from hospital.
---------------
OBIT - From YahooMusic: The singer-songwriter and musician Glenn Frey has died at the age of 67 (Monday, January 18, 2016). He was a founding member of The Eagles, one of the most popular recording acts in the history of music. I still really love his solo hit song, "The Heat is On," the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack.
---------------
CULTURE - From YahooCelebrity: Hannibal Buress still dealing with the aftermath of his Bill Cosby rape joke that started the legendary comedians downfall.
---------------
POLITICS - From RSN: Bernie Sanders healthcare plan would cover everyone (not Hillary's) and it would be administered by the federal government and not by the states... according to RSN.
---------------
OSCARS - From Variety: Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith call for boycott of 88th Oscars.
---------------
SPORTS - From NBCSports: Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin sheds tears in the locker room after his team's painful loss to the Denver Broncos. It is not his fault that the NFL is in the tank for another Brady-Manning matchup.
---------------
CULTURE - From TheVox: Her husband was a rapist, yet the wife also had to answer for his crimes, although she had committed no crime.
---------------
AWARDS - From Variety: 2016 Critics Choice Awards winners.
---------------
COMICS - From CBB: New episode of Johnny Bullet (#57) in English
COMICS - From CBB: New episode of Johnny Bullet (#57) in French
COMICS - From CBB: New episode of Constant (#23 - Chapter Two, Page 1)
---------------
CULTURE - From NRM: Go to the Norman Rockwell Museum to see his classic Civil Rights painting, "The Problem We All Live With."
---------------
MOVIES: From BoxOfficeMojo: "Ride Along 2" wins the 01/15 to 01/17/2016 weekend box office with an estimated take of $34 million. Monday will also be part of the Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
---------------
NEWS - From YahooNews: This is the 30th anniversary of MLK Day, and in South Carolina, the celebration is even bigger now that the Confederate flag over the capitol building was taken down.
---------------
MOVIES - From SlashFilm: Tyler Perry on why he joined TMNT 2 and on Oscars and how to fix lack of diversity.
---------------
COMIC BOOKS - From YahooMovies: The new posters for the "Suicide Squad" film debut.
---------------
NEWS - From ThinkProgess: Another video that Chicago is forced to release shows a police officer shooting an unarmed black teenager.
---------------
CULTURE - From ThinkProgess: The phony debate about political correctness. " It's a get out of jail free card for bigotry, sexism, and lying."
NEWS - From TheIntercept: What is the real story about the U.S. Navy boats that "drifted" into Iranian waters.
---------------
From RSN: A doctor who treats concussions and is an NFL fans says the league is unethical.
---------------
COMICS - From WarrenEllis: Warren Ellis updates his readers and shares 3 questions he asked author Joe Hill (Stephen King's son who is also an author).
---------------
NEWS - From RSN: Flint lives in fear of lead from the drinking water, and the citizens fear that they may already have lead poisoning.
---------------
POLITICS: From YahooNews: Did you know that three Southern states honor Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Day? Mississippi (of course), Alabama (no doubt), and Arkansas (typical). Well, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson want to change that.
---------------
OSCARS - From GuardianUS: White Hollywood parents of black children should speak about diversity for awards.
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COMICS - From CBR: Jim Johnson reviews the relaunch of the Uncanny X-Men comic book.
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From YouTube: "13 Hours" featurettes - Tig & Dominic; Tanto & Pablo; “Oz & Max” Featurette - https://youtu.be/mSdYKWjoHeg
VIZ Media Goes to "School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei"
New Thriller By The Artist Of DEATH NOTE And BAKUMAN。 Straight From The Pages Of WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP
Launches In Print And Digitally Next Month
San Francisco, CA – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, delivers tense courtroom drama straight from the pages of WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP as it announces the launch of SCHOOL JUDGMENT: GAKKYU HOTEI on February 2nd, 2016.
The new series was created by writer Nobuaki Enoki and Takeshi Obata, the famed manga artist who achieved international acclaim for the hit series DEATH NOTE, BAKUMAN。and ALL YOU NEED IS KILL (all published by VIZ Media). SCHOOL JUDGMENT: GAKKYU HOTEI will debut in print under the Shonen Jump imprint and will carry an MSRP of $9.99 U.S. / $12.99 CAN. The series also launches digitally on February 2nd via VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App, as well as from the Nook, Kobo, Kindle, iBooks, comiXology, and GooglePlay stores. New volumes will be published three times a year.
SCHOOL JUDGMENT: GAKKYU HOTEI is set at Tenbin Elementary, where there is only one way to settle a dispute – in a court of law! All quarrels bypass the teachers and are settled by some of the best lawyers in the country…who also happen to be elementary school students. In the opening volume of the series, the accused this time is a boy named Tento. His crime? The murder of a beloved member of the classroom! Luckily for him, the state has sent him a defense attorney–Abaku Inugami. But is this wild young lawyer skilled enough to get his client off the hook?
“SCHOOL JUDGMENT was rated as one of the most successful manga series based on reader surveys from WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP’s Jump Start initiative,” says Marlene First, Editor. “Takeshi Obata’s detailed and riveting artwork is the perfect vehicle to bring Nobuaki Enoki’s courtroom drama to life. Don’t miss the launch next month of this new thriller!”
Manga writer Nobuaki Enoki received the Jump Treasure New Cartoonist Prize in April 2009 for his work, Rikuou. School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei was his first work to be serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan and it also appears in the digital English edition published by VIZ Media.
Takeshi Obata first achieved international recognition as the artist of the wildly popular Weekly Shonen Jump title, HIKARU NO GO, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei "New Hope" Award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award. He went on to illustrate the smash hit supernatural crime thriller, DEATH NOTE, as well as the hugely successful manga BAKUMAN。 and ALL YOU NEED IS KILL.
For additional information on SCHOOL JUDGMENT: GAKKYU HOTEI or other manga titles published by VIZ Media, please visit www.VIZ.com.
About VIZ Media, LLC
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, VIZ Media distributes, markets and licenses the best anime and manga titles direct from Japan. Owned by three of Japan's largest manga and animation companies, Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ Media has the most extensive library of anime and manga for English speaking audiences in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. With its popular digital manga anthology WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and blockbuster properties like NARUTO, BLEACH and ONE PIECE, VIZ Media offers cutting-edge action, romance and family friendly properties for anime, manga, science fiction and fantasy fans of all ages. VIZ Media properties are available as graphic novels, DVDs, animated television series, feature films, downloadable and streaming video and a variety of consumer products. Learn more about VIZ Media, anime and manga at www.VIZ.com.
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Friday, January 22, 2016
Indiana Film Critics Pick "Spotlight" Best Film of 2015
The Indiana Film Journalist Association (IFJA) is a film critics’ organization only formed in December 2009. It seeks to promote film criticism in the state of Indiana and also gives out its annual awards in December.
The full list of 2015 Indiana Film Journalist Association Awards:
Best Film
Winner: "Spotlight"
Runner-up: "Room"
Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
"Anomalisa"
"The Big Short"
"Carol"
"The End of the Tour"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"Steve Jobs"
"Straight Outta Compton"
Best Animated Feature
Winner: "Anomalisa"
Runner-Up: "Inside Out "
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: "Son of Saul"
Runner-Up: "Goodnight Mommy"
Best Documentary
Winner: "Amy"
Runner-Up: "Meru"
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, "Spotlight"
Runner-up: Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen, "Bridge of Spies"
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Emma Donoghue, "Room"
Runner-up: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, "The Big Short"
Best Director
Winner: George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Runner-up: Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight"
Best Actress
Winner: Brie Larson, "Room"
Runner-up: Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years"
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Greta Gerwig, "Mistress America"
Runner-up: Elizabeth Banks, "Love & Mercy"
Best Actor
Winner: Jacob Tremblay, "Room"
Runner-up: Jason Segel, "The End of the Tour"
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Mark Ruffalo, "Spotlight"
Runner-up: Idris Elba, "Beasts of No Nation"
Best Vocal/Motion Capture Performance
Winner: Phyllis Smith, "Inside Out"
Runner-up: Tom Noonan, "Anomalisa"
Best Musical Score
Winner: Junkie XL, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Runner-up: Disasterpeace, "It Follows"
Original Vision Award
Winner: "Anomalisa"
Runner-up: "Chi-Raq"
The Hoosier Award
Winner: Angelo Pizzo, writer/director/producer
(As a special award, no runner-up is declared in this category.)
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The full list of 2015 Indiana Film Journalist Association Awards:
Best Film
Winner: "Spotlight"
Runner-up: "Room"
Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
"Anomalisa"
"The Big Short"
"Carol"
"The End of the Tour"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"Steve Jobs"
"Straight Outta Compton"
Best Animated Feature
Winner: "Anomalisa"
Runner-Up: "Inside Out "
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: "Son of Saul"
Runner-Up: "Goodnight Mommy"
Best Documentary
Winner: "Amy"
Runner-Up: "Meru"
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, "Spotlight"
Runner-up: Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen, "Bridge of Spies"
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Emma Donoghue, "Room"
Runner-up: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, "The Big Short"
Best Director
Winner: George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Runner-up: Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight"
Best Actress
Winner: Brie Larson, "Room"
Runner-up: Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years"
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Greta Gerwig, "Mistress America"
Runner-up: Elizabeth Banks, "Love & Mercy"
Best Actor
Winner: Jacob Tremblay, "Room"
Runner-up: Jason Segel, "The End of the Tour"
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Mark Ruffalo, "Spotlight"
Runner-up: Idris Elba, "Beasts of No Nation"
Best Vocal/Motion Capture Performance
Winner: Phyllis Smith, "Inside Out"
Runner-up: Tom Noonan, "Anomalisa"
Best Musical Score
Winner: Junkie XL, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Runner-up: Disasterpeace, "It Follows"
Original Vision Award
Winner: "Anomalisa"
Runner-up: "Chi-Raq"
The Hoosier Award
Winner: Angelo Pizzo, writer/director/producer
(As a special award, no runner-up is declared in this category.)
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