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This weekend, Kanye West will be the musical guest for the season finale of Saturday Night Live, and to hype everyone up for the episode, here's the promo clip for the Ben Affleck-hosted episode. Fred Armisen provides the LOLs as Kanye keeps his composure, but who knows what his performances will bring? Live television (and [...]

Kanye West Los últimos dos episodios que Saturday Night Live tendrá en su temporada 38 no sólo se acompañarán de Kristin Wiig y Ben Affleck como anfitriones, también contarán con las presentaciones de Kanye West y Vampire Weekend . El primero de estos dos programas se transmitirá el 11 de mayo con la combinación de Wiig y Vampire Weekend ; el segundo será el 18 de mayo con Ben Affleck y Kanye West . Abajo les compartimos los videos [...]

My brother just emailed me a video of an interview that Piers Morgan recently did with Jimmy Carter in which the former U.S. President, looking fantastic to be pushing 90, made some interesting points about the film Argo and the real life story on which it's apparently quite loosely based. Carter loved the movie and was rooting for it to win "Best Film" at the Oscars, but he wanted to clarify a few important things: The Canadians deserved far more credit (90%) than the movie gave them, as did a man named Ken [...]

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Yesterday, when I watched the 85th annual Academy Awards in the middle of Monday afternoon Australia time, I purposely did so in a bubble. There was no checking out Facebook status updates to see what everyone was saying. When I blogged my impressions afterwards, I didn't want to be corrupted by any outside influence other than my friend Lori's. Hours later, when I finally started reading through the impressions of my Facebook friends, a few things jumped out at me: 1) I wasn't the only person who was disappointed by the live performances of Adele and Barbra [...]

Yesterday, when I watched the 85th annual Academy Awards in the middle of Monday afternoon Australia time, I purposely did so in a bubble. There was no checking out Facebook status updates to see what everyone was saying. When I blogged my impressions afterwards, I didn't want to be corrupted by any outside influence other than my friend Lori's. Hours later, when I finally started reading through the impressions of my Facebook friends, a few things jumped out at me: 1) I wasn't the only person who was disappointed by the live performances of Adele and Barbra [...]

1. Seth MacFarlane was looking so nervous and uncomfortable during his opening monologue until William Shatner arrived in time to (sort of) save the clunky routine. One wonders why nobody considered hiring Captain Kirk as host. Or why Shatner didn't stop MacFarlane from doing that terrible song about A-list actress boobs. I loved the bit with Sally Field, though -- she looks 10 years younger -- and sock puppets never fail to amuse me, especially when one of them is supposed to be Denzel Washington, drunk and coked-up in the cockpit at the Flight wheel. [...]

Director: Terence Malick Cast: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem Certificate: 12A Running Time: 112 min Release: 22 February For better and worse, To the Wonder is the Terence Malick-est of Terence Malick’s films. It’s at once a gorgeous, swooning poem, and a meandering, rudderless doodle. If you get bored (and some viewers will) you could play Terence Malick bingo: Sunbeams through leaves? Check. Whispered voiceover? Check. Ponderings on religion and love? Check. Olga Kurylenko? Actually, she’s not Czech, she’s Ukrainian! Kurylenko, a beautiful actress, [...]

Of all the Oscar predictions I've heard that ended up coming true, the most impressive one was probably the one my friend Mara (now Us Weekly 's film critic) made in September of 2004, shortly after Vanity Fair flopped at the box office. For those who don't remember (and there must be a lot of you out there), Vanity Fair was a period drama that lined up all the Oscar-bait elements: based on a beloved novel, overseen by a well-respected director (Mira Nair), and starring Reese Witherspoon, a popular actress who'd been [...]

First, Boston Magazine gives 'Good Will Hunting' the oral history treatment : [Ben] Affleck : We came up with this idea of the brilliant kid and his townie friends, where he was special and the government wanted to get their mitts on him. And it had a very Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run sensibility, where the kids from Boston were giving the NSA the slip all the time. We would improvise and drink like six or twelve beers or whatever and record it with a tape recorder. At the time we imagined [...]

Argo. Had heard good things about it, how Ben Affleck was robbed by the Oscars nominations etc etc. It did not meet my expectations. Argo isn't captivating or suspenseful but it is just enough of those to keep my attention for it's entirety. Reading the wiki page after watching it I find myself agreeing strongly with NYT critic Stanley Fish who summed up my feelings towards the films much more eloquently than I could hope to so let me just Ctrl+C some of it. "This is one of those movies that depend [...]

Adele has won a Golden Globe for her theme to the James Bond film Skyfall.She bagged the Best Song gong at the Hollywood ceremony and thanked her newborn son during her acceptance speech.The Golden Globe awards are held every year and are a major ceremony in the world of film and television. Related articles Golden Globes 2013: Adele wins best song for Skyfall (telegraph.co.uk) Golden Globes 2013: Adele Wins with "Skyfall" [...]

The Hits I love that Oscar wasn't as ageist as usual and nominated both its oldest and youngest Best Actress contenders ever in one year. Age is nothing but a number for Amour 's Emmanuelle Riva, 85, and Beasts of the Southern Wild 's Quevenzhan é Wallis , 9, though. They would be thoroughly deserving of their Oscar citations even if they were 20 years younger and older, respectively. Although I still think the category is The Impossible 's Naomi Watts' to lose, I would love to see Wallis [...]

William Shakespeare once wrote in his play As You Like It that “all the world is a stage, and all the men and women a merely players”, although this line has been quoted to death, it feels quite fitting for the film Argo . The film is all about orchestrating an illusion, despite the fact that many doubted it would ever work. Though history has proven that sometimes it is the most outlandish ideas that make the biggest impact. Set during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, the film documents the [...]

1. The obvious way to make a movie based around the 1979-'81 Iran hostage crisis, which is the first big world news story that I'm old enough to remember in semi-detail, would have been to focus on the hostages. It was a risky move for Ben Affleck, directing his third feature film, to make them almost an afterthought in Argo and instead tell the story of the six U.S. Embassy in Tehran workers who got away (sort of). But it's the relative obscurity of their story -- along with Affleck's confident, straightforward direction and the creative liberties he [...]

Bearded Boston Bro Ben Affleck in "Argo" At first glance, Argo seems like a decently entertaining movie tailor-made for Oscar: Ben Affleck, a high-profile, left-leaning director makes a movie with an all-star cast about a tumultuous period in U.S.-Iran relations (ring any bells?) about an amazing story that was only declassified during President Clinton’s administration. The brilliance of Argo , however, lies in its unpretentious self-assurance as a Hollywood movie about a fake Hollywood movie. The plot of Argo is “based [...]

Director: Ben Affleck Cast: Ben Affleck, John Goodman, Alan Alda, Scoot McNairy, Bryan Cranston Certificate: 15A Running time: 120 mins Release: November 7th Describing something based on a real events as a high-concept thriller is an inherently weird enterprise, but that's the only way to talk about Argo ; a movie with a story that's only plausible because it actually happened. In November 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran as a response to U.S. support for the recently deposed Shah. As they are storming the building, [...]

Bearded Boston Bro Ben Affleck in "Argo" At first glance, Argo seems like a decently entertaining movie tailor-made for Oscar: Ben Affleck, a high-profile, left-leaning director makes a movie with an all-star cast about a tumultuous period in U.S.-Iran relations (ring any bells?) about an amazing story that was only declassified during President Clinton’s administration. The brilliance of Argo , however, lies in its unpretentious self-assurance as a Hollywood movie about a fake Hollywood movie. The plot of Argo is “based [...]

Thoughts on Films Movie Review by Max Bowen In 2007, Ben Affleck made the transition from actor to director with Gone Baby Gone , followed up by The Town in 2010. Both movies received rave reviews, and proved that Affleck’s film talent isn't limited to that happening before the camera. [...]

In 1941 Orson Welles became the first man to be nominated for an Oscar in the writing, directing and acting categories in a career. While few have been nominated for a single film as Welles was (that's fun to say!), he has been joined by filmmakers as diverse as Woody Allen and John Huston. With Argo, Ben Affleck seems destined to join that group. In 1979 Iranian revolutionaries overran the US Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 hostages. Six Americans managed to escape the Embassy and took shelter in the home of the Canadian Ambassador to Iran. Tony Mendez [...]