/Answers: Our Favorite Espionage Movies
In this edition of /Answers, the /Film team gathers together to talk about the best espionage movies, films that eschew action for a more nuanced look at undercover and spy work.
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'Argo' Fact Vs. Fiction: The CIA Weighs In
The CIA takes on Argo fact vs fiction. Find out which details of the 2013 Best Picture winner were true, and which were Hollywood fabrications.
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Mondo Announces Ben Affleck Poster Series Including 'Argo,' 'The Town' And 'Gone Baby Gone'
Before Ben Affleck becomes Batman, he's getting his own Mondo poster series. The company just revealed they've got a new series of limited edition prints coming up, based on the director's previous films Gone Baby Gone, The Town and Argo. Here's what the actor/director said about the company: I've always loved Mondo and their passion…
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The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - The 85th Annual Academy Awards
Dave, Devindra, Germain, and Russ chat about their thoughts on this year's Academy Awards. How funny and offensive was Seth MacFarlane? Who still remembers Chicago? What the hell were Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy doing up there? Tune in and find out! You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at…
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The 85th Annual Academy Award Winners; 'Argo' Takes Best Picture
Here are the winners of the 85th Oscars. It was a rather strange year, with only the sixth tie in the history of the awards (for Sound Editing) an excess of references to Chicago, and a surprise win in the Best Director category for Ang Lee. (And those who expected Jessica Chastain to take the Best…
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Gallery: Scott C's Great Showdowns For The 85th Annual Academy Awards
2013 seems to be the year of Oscar-themed pop culture art. Gallery 1988 did an amazing event, Mondo is preparing their own extravaganza and Scott Campbell has been adding to his Great Showdowns. All this week leading up to the 85th Annual Academy Awards, Campbell has been immortalizing some of this year's Best Picture nominees…
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WGA Awards Go To 'Argo', 'Zero Dark Thirty'
In the last major pre-Oscars guild awards, the WGA followed the PGA, the DGA, and the SAG (not to mention the HFPA, the BAFTA, and most every other film-related acronym you can think of) in feting Argo, this time for the excellent adapted screenplay by Chris Terrio. Mark Boal's Zero Dark Thirty nabbed the original screenplay award,…
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When 'Argo' Was Called 'Lord Of Light'
The following story and excerpt come from Jeff Goldsmith: After winning BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture, Argo continues to enjoy its festive awards season glow. For all the things going right for Argo, it's interesting to learn more about the history behind the real script's difficult past (the movie/script inside the movie). The…
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Ben Affleck And 'Argo' Win Best Director And Best Picture BAFTAs
At this point, the only thing standing between Ben Affleck and a Best Director Oscar would seem to be the pesky fact that he wasn't nominated for the award. Nevertheless, Affleck and his film Argo have turned into an awards juggernaut, starting with the Best Motion Picture (Drama) and Best Director awards at the Golden…
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Cool Stuff: Gallery1988's 2013 Oscar-Inspired Poster Print Series
We've got a bunch of cool movie art for you today. The Academy and Gallery1988 commissioned a small group of artists to create original screen prints inspired by this year’s nine Best Picture nominees. After the jump you can see some of them, including: AMOUR by artist Matt Owen, ARGO by Anthony Petrie, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN…
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Ben Affleck Takes DGA Prize, 'Wreck-It Ralph' Wrecks The Annies
While it was anyone's guess who'd win the Super Bowl last night, the movie awards ceremonies this weekend were more predictable. Argo continued its steamroll through awards season, picking up a DGA award for Ben Affleck to go with the film's earlier PGA, SAG, and Globes victories, while PGA winner Wreck-It Ralph took the top prize…
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/Filmcast Ep. 216 - J.J. Abrams Directing Star Wars, And The Best Films Of Sundance 2013
Dave, Devindra, Adam, Germain and Peter discuss this week's massive news about the next Star Wars film, plus Germain runs down his favorite and most disappointing films of this year's Sundance film festival. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download Now or Play in Your Browser Subscribe to…
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PGA And SAG Awards Announced; Could 'Argo' Take Best Picture After All?
With awards season in full swing, both the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild of America handed out prizes for their favorites of 2012 this past weekend. The big winner at both ceremonies turned out to be Ben Affleck's Argo, which had also previously picked up Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Motion…
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2013 Golden Globes Award Winners And Live Blog; 'Argo' Wins Best Picture And Director [UPDATED With Videos]
For the 70th year, the Hollywood Foreign Press handed out their Golden Globe Awards Sunday night. Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler entertained an audience of TV and movie fans there to bestow awards to shows like Girls, Modern Family, Smash, Breaking Bad, Homeland and Downton Abbey and films like Lincoln, Argo, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Silver Linings…
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85th Academy Award Nominations: 'Beasts Of The Southern Wild,' 'Lincoln,' And 'Silver Linings Playbook' Earn Major Recognition
Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to announce the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards. Academy members nominated nine contenders for Best Picture, with Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty all…
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'Looper', 'The Master', 'Perks Of Being A Wallflower', And More Nominated For Writers Guild Of America Awards
With just days to go until Oscar nominations are announced, the Writers Guild of America has unveiled its list of nominees for their top screenplay awards. As expected, many of these are films that have picked up plenty of accolades already. It'll surprise no one to see that Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, and Lincoln are among the…
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Producer's Guild Of America Best Of 2012 Nominations Include 'Argo,' 'Django Unchained,' 'Lincoln,' 'Zero Dark Thirty'
We're already at the point in the award season where a few films have been solidified as the big winners and prime Oscar candidates. Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook, and Lincoln have been awards frontrunners for weeks, and will likely continue to dominate slates of official accolades until the season ends with…
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2012: A Year In Movie Mistakes
At their core, all narrative features are lies. We can will ourselves to believe we're watching superheroes save Manhattan, but we know deep down that what we're really seeing is costumed actors zipping around on wires and jumping in front of green screens. And like all great, big whoppers, the more moving parts there are,…
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2013 Golden Globe Nominations Highlight 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Django Unchained,' 'Lincoln'
This morning Megan Fox, Ed Helms, and Jessica Alba announced the nominations for the 2013 Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the event, is famous for nominating films and performances simply based on their star factor -- if there's an actor that members of the HFPA want to hang out with,…
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'Lincoln' And 'Silver Linings Playbook' Lead 2012 Screen Actors Guild Nominations
The end of the year is approaching and that means award season. Every year it starts with regional critic groups and then slowly gets to the bigger, more influential groups leading up through the Academy Awards. If a film hopes to gain an Academy Award nomination, its first major hurdle is the Screen Actors Guild.…
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The Sounds Of 'Wreck-It Ralph,' 'Argo,' 'Flight' And 'Skyfall'
Odds are if you've been to the movies in the past four weeks, you saw Wreck-It Ralph, Argo, Flight or Skyfall. They're the top four movies at the box office at the moment and each have their own merits. One is great family fare with fun geeky spin. The next is a taut thriller in…
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Steven Spielberg Trivia: A Connection To 'Argo,' Why He Hasn't Directed A James Bond Film And More
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is fast approaching, which means soon we'll hear all the obligatory quotes from the man himself about Indiana Jones 5, Robopocalypse, Jurassic Park 4, Tintin 2 and whatever other movies he's been attached to or talked about over the years. Two movies that likely won't be mentioned are Ben Affleck's Argo and…
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/Filmcast Ep. 203 - Argo (GUEST: Alison Willmore From Filmspotting SVU)
Dave, Devindra, and Adam explain the narrative pleasures of Seven Psychopaths, wonder why Get the Gringo didn't do a better job of rehabilitating Mel Gibson's career, and ponder how accurate movies need to be when they're "based on a true story." Alison Willmore joins us from Filmspotting SVU. Read more about Argo's historical accuracy. You can always e-mail us…
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Telluride Reaction: Ben Affleck's 'Argo' Is A Brilliant Nail-Biting Suspense-Filled Thriller
The lone secret premiere of the 2011 Telluride Film Festival ended up being Ben Affleck's dramatic thriller Argo. I've never understood the negativity regularly thrown at Ben Affleck. When given the right material, he's delivered some great performances as an actor (Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Boiler Room, Hollywoodland...etc). And in recent years he's made the transition and…
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'Argo' Trailer: Ben Affleck's Ambitious '70s-Set Political Caper Thriller
"This is the best bad idea we have, sir, by far." Here's the trailer for Argo, Ben Affleck's third film as director. The film follows the efforts of an operation to rescue six diplomats hiding in Tehran during the Iranian revolution in 1979. The trailer begins in serious political thriller mode before the real plan…
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Release Dates: 'Argo' Moves From September To October, Bumping 'Gangster Squad' Off Warner Bros.' Schedule
Apparently, everyone in Hollywood returned from this past weekend with the burning desire to shift around their release date calendars. Following Monday's scheduling shuffle for Summit's Ender's Game and Paramount's The Dictator, Warner Bros. has just decided to push back its Ben Affleck thriller Argo by a few weeks -- which wouldn't really be a big deal,…
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New Images: 'The Hobbit,' 'Argo,' 'Snow White And The Huntsman,' 'Sightseers'
If you'd like to see Ben Affleck with a stunning Seventies beard, Chris Hemsworth and Martin Freeman each surrounded by a bunch of dwarves or the first image from Ben Wheatley's follow-up to Kill List, this post is for you. After the jump, see new images from Ben Affleck's Argo, Rupert Sanders' Snow White and…
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