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If a good rule of thumb is that the average generation clocks in at around twenty-five years, then it’s almost too delicious to note that 22 years after ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ — the definitive Gen X high school movie — comes the next great, generation-defining high-school hero.
The Oscars are barrelling down on us — the ceremony is this coming Sunday, February 24 — so it’s time to close out Movie Year 2007. Between today and tomorrow, I’ll share with you my own picks for the bests of the year, plus my predictions for Oscar night. After the jump, the top 5 … more…
Ronald Harwood, nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, won an Oscar for this adapted screenplay for 2002’s The Pianist. (Click the DVD for a quote from his script.) (Buy The Pianist at Amazon.) (Read my review of The Pianist.) (Read my review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.) … more…
I have no idea what prompted this, since clearly the writer believes I am psychic in addition to being smug and elitist. Still, it’s too good not to share: Five things I hate WAY more than “Juno”: 1) “Atonement” )now THAT’S overrated!) 2) Sean “Scumbag” Penn 3) Aretha Franklin’s flabby arms (buy an outfit with … more…
The Oscars are barrelling down on us — the ceremony is this coming Sunday, February 24 — so it’s time to close out Movie Year 2007. Between now and Friday, I’ll share with you my own picks for the bests of the year, plus my predictions for Oscar night. After the jump, the top 5 … more…
Absolutely horrifying…
Because you can never have too much Jonathan Coulton: via Fact-esque (Technorati tags: Mandelbrot Set, Jonathan Coulton)
(previous: “Reconstruction”) Last spring I called Jericho the anti-24, a blatant rejection of “the kinds of values that 24 espouses — torture, paranoia, suspicion, bigotry — and it didn’t need to create some imaginary liberal paradise in which to do it.” That was sort of in the undertone of Jericho in its first season, but … more…
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead. Oh, that is brilliant. Why didn’t I think of it first? It belongs to an indie film from C Plus Pictures that just finished shooting in New York, and it has an, um, interesting cast that includes Devon Aoki, Ralph Macchio, and Jeremy Sisto. But honestly, it’s that title that’ll … more…
The Oscars are barrelling down on us — the ceremony is this coming Sunday, February 24 — so it’s time to close out Movie Year 2007. Between now and Friday, I’ll share with you my own picks for the bests of the year, plus my predictions for Oscar night. After the jump, the top 5 … more…
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