Black Sheep on The Oscars

The 83rd annual Academy Awards began with a riveting montage of the fantastic batch of films that make up this year's Best Picture nominees. As Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's now Academy Award winning score from THE SOCIAL NETWORK triumphantly backed up the incredible imagery from these films, it felt like it was truly going to be the movies'...

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7 Khoon Maaf (2011)

Genre: Drama/Romance/Mystery/Crime/ThrillerStarring: Priyanka Chopra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Irrfan Khan, Aleksandr Dyachenko, Annu Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Vivaan Shah, Konkana Sen SharmaThe story of a young and beautiful girl, Susanna (Chopra) who marries 7 men and murders each and every one of them. Major Edwin Rodriques (Mukesh)...

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For Your Consideration 2011

Happy Oscar Day!! For all of you having guests over to watch the Academy Awards this evening, I offer you the following musical selections for your consideration. Throughout 2010, I took note of all the songs in the movies that stood out for me and have compiled this tracklisting to represent the year in film. There are a few songs from...

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Black Sheep predicts The Academy Awards

Oscar weekend has finally arrived. I began my weekend's festivities last night with a panel discussion on the Oscars, on Montreal's CJAD show, Delmar at Night. (Click here for the audio.) I got to make my predictions in many of the major categories and chat up one of my favorite subjects on air, which is always just an incredible treat...

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Best of Black Sheep: Black Sheep interviews Xavier Dolan

Different than I ImaginedAn interview with Xavier DolanI want to know which one of you is responsible for this. You’ve clearly hurt Quebec filmmaker, Xavier Dolan’s feelings and I for one am not going to stand for it. He is only 21 years old and already he knows what it is to be tossed aside by critics who once purported to be his biggest...

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The 2010 Mouton d'Or Awards

Welcome to the 2010 Mouton d'Or Awards, brought to you by Black Sheep Reviews for the sixth and, as it turns out, final time. This is not the end of the Mouton d'Or Awards, but rather just the last time they will be presented on this website. Sometime in the weeks to come, Black Sheep Reviews will go dark. When I first started this blog,...

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Best of Black Sheep: WINTER'S BONE

Written by Debra Granik and Anne RoselliniDirected by Debra GranikStarring Jennifer Lawrence and John HawkesRee Dolly: Never ask for what ought be offered.WINTER’S BONE tells you immediately what tone to expect for the duration of your journey. Two young children bounce up and down on a trampoline that sits outside a dilapidated wood cottage...

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