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Last week, in response to the fairly bland and uninspired crop of Best Picture nominees this year, we asked our readers how many of them they actually enjoyed. And much like me, you folks were mostly negative on the movies that the Academy deemed the cream of this year’s crop. 76% of you said that you only liked two or fewer of the five nominees, ...
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There’s only one person who could have not only written but also delivered last week’s Famous Last Words quote (““Sex and death- two things that come once in a lifetime. But at least after death you’re not nauseous.”) That man, of course, is Woody Allen, and the line comes from his early, funny classic Sleeper. It’s the perfect capper to one of ...
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This week, a whole mess of “classic” movies flood the DVD market, which is good, since the recent releases coming out this week aren't all that impressive. Heading up the classics crop is the Being There 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Warner, also Blu-Ray). The good news is that the Blu-Ray disc will contain a number of intriguing special ...
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Now that I’ve caught up with just about all of the major 2008 releases I’ve really wanted to, we’ll be going back to the old alternating-weeks format of Reviews By Request and Yesterday’s Hits starting next week. So, as before, I’ll be polling you folks to determine the first of two Oscar-themed Reviews By Request columns, which will run in two ...
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Anyone else getting a Garden State vibe off this trailer? Sure, there’s that leaden voiceover, which sounds vaguely like the narrator was trying channel Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving. But otherwise, there’s the offbeat-cute male lead pursuing the free-spirited woman, set against plenty of quirky backdrops. No doubt this vibe was intentional on the ...
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I know of at least one classic movie lover who was disappointed to find that Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Notorious- the source of last week’s quote- was in fact not given a nationwide rerelease two weekends ago. But while it may not have had the Hollywood hype machine behind it for the past few months, Hitchcock’s film (his best, in my ...
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With Oscar nominations, there of course comes the second-guessing. While many of our favorites made the cut this year, it seems like just as many got the shaft. But which was most egregiously snubbed? In a shocking turn of events, the Best Picture omission of fanboy favorite The Dark Knight was narrowly edged out by Academy voters’ lack of love ...
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The career of Eddie Murphy strikes me as one of the bigger missed opportunities in recent Hollywood history. Here’s a guy who had seemingly boundless potential- capable of being both bitingly-funny and old-movie-star charming, he’s got what studio executives call “across-the-board appeal.” Yet he practically seems allergic to making solid ...
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This week, a whole bunch of late-summer/early-fall releases are coming on DVD to help soothe the midwinter moviegoing blues. Of this week’s bumper crop of recent theatrical releases coming to DVD, the most noteworthy is Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Genius Products, also Blu-Ray), which became the Woodman’s biggest hit in years due in ...
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When I asked you folks to vote on my next three Reviews By Request columns a few weeks ago, one thing I hadn’t anticipated was that there’d be a tie for third place. Under other circumstances, I might simply have chosen one film to write about over the other, but I’m more or less a man of my word. I briefly toyed with the idea of running a poll to ...
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