The fine folks at Twitch have a clip of Bong Joon-ho’s Mother opening Friday. It’s a spoiler free bit showing “Mother” investigating the home of someone she believes to be the person behind a murder for which her son has been jailed. It’s only a small part of a longer scene (one of the better [...]
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If you know me, you’ll understand intuitively why a movie about a bitter, 40-something, uncomfortable in his own skin misanthrope in Los Angeles who doesn’t really know what he wants to do with himself would be appealing. Having said that, the original trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg starring Ben Stiller left me pretty cold. Maybe [...]
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It’s raining like a mofo here in Hollywood. I realize that’s not an unusual occurrence in most places, but it’s a welcome stranger here in LA especially since the LiC head offices are in no danger of being swept away by mudslides like those living in areas that were recently burned by wildfires.
Being an expatriated [...]
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Back in June, I wrote about Flooding with Love for the Kid, Zachary Oberzan’s $96 version of First Blood filmed entirely within his apartment, but it was greeted with a yawn. Maybe if it was about $400 million giant blue cat people it would’ve been more interesting.
Either way, Flooding with Love finally made its official [...]
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Matt Shapiro’s look back at the year in movies made the rounds a couple of days ago but I kind of ignored it as more of the same. The thing is, it’s actually pretty damn good. Some of the cuts are a little on the nose, but the dude isn’t even 20.
In case you’re not [...]
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For L Magazine, Matt Zoller Seitz has put together a pretty great two-part clip package celebrating the films of the first 10 years of this new century.
He and his friends also weigh in on the decade one year at a time here and here.
You can quibble whether each entry is great or even memorable, but [...]
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Happy New Year everyone.
If you’re at a party this evening, I hope it goes more smoothly for you than it did for Peter Sellers as Hrundi V. Bakshi in Blake Edwards’ The Party.
Be safe. Be happy. I wish you a new year that is even better than the last, personally, professionally and cinematically.
Cheers.
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I’m the only one I know who openly enjoys the clip packages at the Oscars every year so I’m naturally drawn to one man’s well-edited look at what 2009 had to offer at the movies.
I wish there were a higher quotient of movies I liked represented to the ones I didn’t, but then I didn’t [...]
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Awards Daily’s Sasha Stone reminds us of the funniest movie of the year. A Best Picture nod is hopeless, but Peter Capaldi is most deserving of an acting nomination.
Forget about the toothless (no pun intended…well ok, maybe a little) The Hangover. Don’t bother me with The Proposal or Couples Retreat. This movie is funny as [...]
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