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Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 9:06PM Here's Jason reporting from the NYFF on Kelly Reichardt's latest.
Think of it as Pulp Fiction's second cousin, a wallflower who stands blushing at the side of the dance-floor - Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women does command swirling depths from its three interconnected stories; you've just got to take the time and have the patience to suss them out. But man, she dances if you do...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 6:50PM 
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Foreign Language Film Category... *But Were Afraid to Ask
Pt 1 All the Trailers (Albania to Italy)
Pt 2 All the Trailers (Japan through Vietnam)
Here are all the trailers in one place! (Well two places. Part one has the first half. While you watch these we're sprucing up the Official Submission Charts right now to make them cleaner with the full list now that the Academy has made the list official. Which of the 85 films (a record!) are you eager to see? Which do you think Oscar might also warm to?
See more trailers than you can watch in one sitting after after the jump!
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 6:40PM Everything You Wanted to Know About the Foreign Language Film Category... *But Were Afraid to Ask
It's official. 85 countries will compete for this year's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The 85 films will be narrowed down to 9 finalist in December with the actual nominations announced in January.
Are they any changes from our previous elaborate chart tracking? Yes. There are always a few surprises. Previously announced titles that are not on the list for reasons we're not sure about yet are Afghanistan's Parting , Armenia's The Earthquake and Tunisia's As I Open My Eyes. Titles that we didn't have advanced notice about that are on the list are Cambodia's Before the Fall and Yemen's I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced which is Yemen's very first submission.
Here are all the trailers in one place. We're helpful that way...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 5:30PM Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 1:00PM Curio: Celebrating the arts, crafts, quirks, and cosplay of fandom...
When I was a child my mom made all my costumes for Halloween and I have resisted store bought ever since, sometimes at great cost and stress to my Halloween-loving self. So what a creative mom this little tyke has. Stephanie Pokorno of Ohio crocheted this ET costume for her son freehanded and tried it on him as she went making the whole thing in a single weekend. More details here. Incredible.
This crochet queen also shared a How to for making a Harley Quinn wig (though I shudder to think how many Harley Quinn's we'll see this October - we're betting it'll be the most ubiquitous costume of 2016) and dressed her other son in a crocheted poncho modelled after Clint Eastwood from The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
You can follow Stephanie's creations on Instagram or at her site Crochetverse. Do you know what you're going to be for Halloween yet?
