While The Mad Hatter wonders why a raven is like a writing desk, audiences of the new “Alice in Wonderland” might wonder what director Tim Burton was hoping to accomplish with his live-action reimagining of the Lewis Carroll classic. The twisted visionary behind “Edward Scissorhands” and “Ed Wood” has no problem getting another strange and […]
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Another perspective on the best movies of 2009 from contributing writer Josh Miller. This is not an objective list; rather than choosing films that are the best films of the year because of simple filmmaking aesthetic, I chose the ten films that I had some sort of resonance with personally. This list could potentially be
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It all worked out. Pretty much. Jeff Bridges finally won an Oscar. “The Hurt Locker” beat “Avatar” for Best Picture. And Sandra Bullock actually made me want to see her performance in “The Blind Side.” All in all, this year’s Academy Awards was one of the most satisfying Oscar ceremonies ever. The right people won
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“No More Pull-Ups.” “Nice.” These are the final lines of dialogue from “2012,” the mother of all disaster movies. Something like six billion people die in the movie, but gosh darnit, those cute kids and the lovable pooch make it safely to Noah’s Ark 2: Apocalyptic Boogaloo. Don’t get me wrong. I’d much rather watch
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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin host the (something annual) Academy Awards at 5 p.m. Sunday on ABC. It should be a big test for the industry’s most celebrated award show. While some see the 10-nominee Best Picture race as detrimental to the Academy’s reputation as the authority on quality filmmaking, others believe the stuffed category
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No matter how great the filmmaker behind the camera, a movie is only as good as its screenplay. Martin Scorsese may be the best director working today, but even he can’t steer “Shutter Island” away from its fundamental story problems. Moody atmosphere, convincing period art direction and an island stocked of A-list actors just can’t
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I finally got around to seeing "The Invention of Lying" tonight (Thanks, Netflix, for delaying its availability four weeks after its regular home video release date). The film isn’t as hilarious as you might expect from writer/director/star Ricky Gervais, the man behind the British version of "The Office" and the HBO series, "Extras." Still, “The
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Pick of the Week: “Cold Souls” Paul Giamatti made a perfect wino in “Sideways” and a rather effective boxing coach to Russell Crowe in “Cinderella Man.” In his latest acting challenge, Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti, a semi-famous actor tackling a soul-sucking role in a Chekov play. That’s only the start of “Cold Souls,” a bizarre
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The best of the best. Check out numbers 11-51 in part one of this Best Movies of the 2000s list. By now you’ve read a thousand of these articles. At least mine originally published on Christmas Day, so it’s not like I’m that late to the party. And yes, this Top 10 contains 13 movies.
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Ten years. Thousands of movies. Hundreds of contenders. When I set out to write a best movies of the decade feature, I only intended to showcase 10. Talk about being indecisive. You can find numerous articles by more reputable critics concerning the best movies of the decade. My list is 100% personal preference. These are
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