Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s winning story of the impoverished Indian teen who has a chance to take the top prize on a popular television game show, won three prizes of its own on Sunday when it snagged a handful of British Independent Film Awards including best British independent film, best director for Boyle and most [...]
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In the wake of this week’s Associated Press dictate limiting its entertainment writers (including movie reviewers) to 500 words, Roger Ebert weighs in on the current state of film criticism in general. He sees intelligent criticism increasingly pushed aside in favor of celebrity gossip and he fears not only for critics but for the health [...]
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Ok, this isn’t the scene with the eating of the chicken (is it REALLY a chicken???) but Eraserhead has been on my mind since the gluttonous excess of the American Thanksgiving holiday. If you’ve seen David Lynch’s first film, you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t…well I can’t help you now.
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My current bloated state puts me in the mind of Mr. Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
I hope everyone had a good one.
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The abbreviated Weekend Forecast is rolling out a little early this week because all the new releases are hitting on Wednesday. That’s tomorrow for those of you keeping score at home.
Opening in wide release:
Australia. Baz Luhrman’s epic adventure romance takes place on the eve of World War II as English aristocrat Nicole Kidman travels Down [...]
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Here’s another look at Tom Tykwer’s The International starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. I’ve been interested in this one for a while just based on the people involved, but the first trailer didn’t do much to inspire confidence plus there’s the whole matter of the February dumping ground.
This trailer looks similar but a bit [...]
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Things are a little crazy around the LiC head offices as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, but the monkeys and I did have a chance to catch a screening of Gus Van Sant’s Milk starring Sean Penn as the first openly gay man elected to major public office in the United States on Sunday night. I [...]
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It’s another dismal week for the smaller scale DVD releases and the big releases aren’t much to write home about either (the best of the lot is Hancock). Rather than skip the column altogether, I thought I’d go back and pick through the MYMHM columns since they started last June and reprint some of the [...]
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Another strange weekend for new releases is upon us as Hollywood seems to be taking a little pause before the Thanksgiving holiday. If you’re above a certain age, you’re forgiven for not really knowing or caring much about the two big wide releases. However, if you’re in the target audience, this is one of the [...]
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The adaptation of Neil (Sandman) Gaiman’s children’s book Coraline by writer/director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) has been on LiC radar since it was originally announced as a 2008 release. Since then it’s been pushed back to February 2009, but my enthusiasm is undimmed.
At last, here’s a look at the first Coraline trailer:
The story [...]
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Miranda Wilding checks in with another Bond review, this time for Roger Moore’s Moonraker (1979).
The first James Bond movie I ever saw in a theater was The Spy Who Loved Me. My older brothers had seen it first and I remember them chattering excitedly about the ski jump and the submarine car and this crazy [...]
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Here’s the trailer to Rod Lurie’s upcoming Nothing But the Truth starring Kate Beckinsale and Vera Farmiga.
I haven’t really looked at the big picture to see how crowded the actress categories are so far this year, but I think Beckinsale will surprise people who only think of her as a pretty face. Farmiga continues to [...]
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The mysterious body that chooses the pool of potential documentary feature nominees for the Oscars every year probably stepped in another flaming bag of poo yesterday with the release of this year’s short list.
The effusive praise heaped upon Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father by critics, bloggers and audiences alike has gone [...]
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