{"id":15122,"date":"2013-01-13T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15122"},"modified":"2013-01-14T00:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:51:15","slug":"the-january-catchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/01\/13\/the-january-catchup\/","title":{"rendered":"The January Catchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/01\/13\/the-january-catchup\/january-backlog-2013\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15123\" alt=\"January Backlog 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/January-Backlog-2013.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For US and UK audiences, January mostly represents a barren month where studios dump their bad films as the awards season heats up.<\/p>\n<p>It can also be a strange time at the multiplex, as distributors of Oscar and BAFTA front-runners (which this year include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443272\/\">Lincoln<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/movie\/life-of-pi\">Life of Pi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cAtWcvCxPhc\">Zero Dark Thirty<\/a>) seek to get a publicity boost from <a href=\"http:\/\/oscar.go.com\/nominees\">the nominations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a film like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1572315\/\">Texas Chainsaw 3D<\/a> is showing in the screen next door.<\/p>\n<p>I always feel like I&#8217;m playing catchup given the end-of-year rush to get the contenders out to voters.<\/p>\n<p>On the more commercial side, it is also a salutary reminder that life is too short to waste on bad films (unless there is an interesting angle) and how quickly the hoopla surrounding Best Picture fades into the ether.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of every year I try to watch as many as possible in order to compile an end-of-the-year list, but for various reasons that didn&#8217;t happen in 2012 &#8211; a shame since this is probably the most interesting set of Oscar nominations in years.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve now seen most of the awards season heavy hitters and nearly completed my annual list of the best DVD and Blu-ray discs, both of which will be posted soon.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/oscar.go.com\/nominees\">Oscar Nominations<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/12\/08\/the-best-dvd-blu-ray-releases-of-2011\/\">The Best DVD and Blu-rays of 2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For US and UK audiences, January mostly represents a barren month where studios dump their bad films as the awards season heats up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}