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The Three Sundance Films You Can’t Miss

While the success of films like Little Miss Sunshine, Once and Precious prove that the Sundance Film Festival still holds some pretty serious weight in Hollywood, something about the grandaddy of them all has—shall we say—dulled. Perhaps Sundance lost some edge around the same time it featured heavily in a plotline on Entourage. Sensing this, Read More

They’ve Got Spirit, Yes They Do: Three Indies Ready For Oscar Close Up

With the calendar turned over to December and the Carpetbagger blogging once again (now with a new Bagger!), awards season has officially started. And to that we say: finally. In an effort to get a jump on the equally irrelevant Golden Globes, Film Independent announced the nominees for the 25th annual Spirit Awards Read More

Box Office Breakdown: Audiences Shell Out Cash to Watch the End of the World

You probably didn't need a Mayan prophecy to realize that 2012 was going to be the big winner at the box office over the weekend, but even the most optimistic projections didn't see this coming. The $65 million three-day salvo for 2012 was not only the biggest since Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince Read More

Box Office Breakdown: No Lumps of Coal for Christmas, Precious Explodes

Christmas came early at the box office this weekend as A Christmas Carol bah humbugged its way to $31 million in ticket sales and a first place finish, ahead of newcomers The Men Who Stare at Goats ($13.3 million in second) and The Fourth Kind ($12.5 million in fourth). The big story, though, was Read More

Opening This Weekend: Jim Carrey Gets Mean, George Clooney Gets Silly and Precious Gets Controversial

It looks like all it took for some movies that you actually might consider seeing to get released into theaters was a flip of the calendar. The first full weekend of November arrives with no less than five new films, and, as usual, there is something for everyone. As we do every Friday, here's a Read More

Girl, Interrupted

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by SapphireRunning time 110 minutes Written by Geoffrey FletcherDirected by Lee DanielsStarring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey

Raw, harrowing and undeniably unsettling, the controversial, much-anticipated Precious arrives on waves of film festival buzz this week. See it at your own risk, but be forewarned: It is not Read More

Girl, Interrupted

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Running time 110 minutes Written by Geoffrey Fletcher Directed by Lee Daniels Starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey

Raw, harrowing and undeniably unsettling, the controversial, much-anticipated Precious arrives on waves of film festival buzz this week. See it at your own risk, but be forewarned: Read More

Where Are All the Oscar Movies?

Pop quiz, hotshot: can you successfully name the five 2008 movies nominated for Best Picture at the most recent Academy Awards without resorting to Google? We didn't think so. And yet, if 2008 was a forgettable bore for Oscar movies what does that make 2009?

(For the record, the nominees were Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Read More