“I’m not sad. The corset just cut off the blood supply to
my head and I can’t move the muscles of my face.”
Last weekend I sat down to tap out the Movies You May Have Missed column and I swear there was absolutely nothing worth mentioning. I figured a day or two before Christmas was a [...]

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Awards season picked up a little steam today with a batch of nominations from the International Documentary Association and the British Independent Film Awards.
The 2008 IDA Documentary Award nominees are:

Kassim the Dream - the story of Ugandan child soldier turned World Champion boxer Kassim “The Dream” Ouima (Coming to AFI Fest).
Man on Wire - this [...]

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Wong Kar-Wai’s Ashes of Time Redux, opening in limited release 
There isn’t much to get too excited about in the wide releases this weekend:

Body of Lies. A Ridley Scott thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent on the trail of a terrorist leader. He is guided from afar by CIA veteran Russell Crowe but with his life [...]

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I crammed all my movies into Sunday evening and it’s late and I’m tired so I’m going to keep my half of this short. Let’s just say It wasn’t exactly a movie going weekend for the record books, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
First up was Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Téa Leoni in [...]

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Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris in Appaloosa opening in NY, LA and Toronto
Unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, this might be a good weekend to go see Burn After Reading again because there isn’t much to get excited about in this week’s new wide releases:

Ghost Town. Ricky Gervais is a dentist whose [...]

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The trades are weighing in on the new Keira Knightley film The Duchess.
THR’s Kurt Honeycutt likes Knightley but calls Saul Dibb “a sturdy but uninspired director,” adding that he “brings no Shekhar Kapur visual or dramatic flamboyance to the task of bringing Georgiana’s life to the screen. So Duchess will satisfy those who enjoy costume [...]

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George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]

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