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Cate Blanchett, nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for 2004’s The Aviator. (Click the DVD for a quote from her character.) (Buy The Aviator at Amazon.) (Read my review of The Aviator.) (Read my review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age.) (Technorati tags: … more…
(Get a full recap or watch the entire episode at CBS’s official site for the show.) You thought the bombs were scary? The bombs weren’t nuthin’. Now comes the scary stuff: the political machinations and, well, the Second American Civil War. It’s like everything we’ve seen up to now on Jericho has been prelude — … more…
Ask anyone of the Generation X persuasion about Joan Crawford, and there’s one image that invariably leaps to mind, and it ain’t of Joan Crawford: it’s of Faye Dunaway portraying Joan Crawford in the notorious 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest. And particularly of the clownishly madeup Dunaway Crawford screaming about wire hangers, the undesirability of. So … more…
Javier Bardem, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in No Country for Old Men, was previously nominated as Best Actor in 2000’s Before Night Falls. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy Before Night Falls at Amazon.) (Read my review of No Country for Old Men.) (Technorati tags: Academy Award … more…
See it: • Becoming Jane [buy it]. From my review: I love Becoming Jane even if it is almost entirely invented, because it captures both the aching romanticism and the cold, hard practicalities of Austen’s fiction. And it even, in a way, does Austen one better: it’s laden with all of the angst and heartbreak … more…
(previous: “Heavy Metal”) Poor Andy! He rebuilt his chess computer, the Turk, was all excited about maybe winning that chess tournament (First prize: a military contract! Robot apocalypse, here we come!), and then he lost. Aww. And then he gets shot and the Turk gets AI-napped. Maybe if Sarah had killed him when she had … more…
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Listen carefully, because this is something I’m pretty sure you’ve never heard me say before, and chances are excellent that I will never say it again: This is one of the greatest romantic dramedies ever made.
I’ve been taking a little break from haikus lately. Not deliberately: kinda by accident. I’m gonna try to catch up. Should I? Are you guys enjoying them? The next few days will reveal what movie inspired this: How to be surprised Name an actor you can’t stand And fall in mad love
The movie year 2007 ain’t over yet — won’t be till the Oscars are handed out — but that don’t mean we can’t look forward to what’s coming in 2008. At the instigation of Nathaniel R. of Film Experience, some of my fellow critics and I have come up with our joint list of the … more…
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