Muriel picks the best picture of 2009 tomorrow, but over the last couple of days she’s racked up three picks in major categories that definitely go against conventional wisdom and are sure to bunch up more than a few pairs of undies. Though none of them received my first place vote, I like all the [...]
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As AVATAR crosses $1 billion worldwide in just 17 days, is TITANIC’S $1.84 billion within reach?
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Tilda Swinton’s well-received I Am Love parlays festival critical success into a distribution deal with Magnolia
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Isaach de Bankolé in The Limits of Control
Those who like their movies with a strong dose of plot are sure to be irritated by the latest film from Jim Jarmusch. Carefully structured but willfully lacking anything beyond the slimmest of narratives, The Limits of Control is more concerned with setting a mood and ruminating on [...]
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Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
It is said that youth is wasted on the young, but in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the title character is blessed – and cursed – to live life the other way around. Born a frail, infant-sized old man with cataracts and arthritis, [...]
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I caved in and watched the teaser trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, but I’m drawing the line on this one. Nothing could make me want to see the movie more, so why risk ruining it before I see it? Anyway, I’m a [...]
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John Malkovich dictates his ‘memwahs’ in Burn After Reading
They are two brothers who have a knack for combining genres and styles into hybrids that can only be described by using their last name as an adjective. Their films are set in a recognizable approximation of reality, but certain elements have been tweaked and exaggerated. Unexpected [...]
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Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Mr. Angelina Jolie on the set of Burn After Reading
Open wide and say “Burn!”
Burn After Reading. Anyone who has read LiC for any length of time knows I’m completely in the tank for the Coen Brothers. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I loved this movie. It’s fair to [...]
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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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JoBlo has the international one-sheet for Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading. It’s obviously very similar to the US poster with the addition of the figures at the bottom.
I like it, but then it’s widely known I’m in the tank for all things Coen.
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