why does the Sicario Region 1 DVD cover art make it look like Benicio Del Toro is the star of the film?
In a year when badass women are obviously doing very well for Hollywood, this is no explanation for this beyond unthinking, reflexive sexism.
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Contagion (trailer)
It’s like a zombie movie… but real!
what he said: Patrick Goldstein at The Big Picture…
…on The Social Network as such a dramatic contrast to the appalling quality of most Hollywood big-screen scriptwriting these days…
FlickFilosopher all over the world
I’ve been playing around with the traffic-monitoring service SiteMeter, using it to track traffic here and attempt to figure out what I’m doing right, what I’m doing wrong, and see if maybe I can boost traffic somehow. One of the neat features it offers is a visual representation of where on the planet site visitors … more…
DVD mashup: a peek at peak oil with ‘Syriana’ and ‘The Deal’
Two thrillers you wish weren’t quite so thrilling, with their terrifying basis in reality…
top 11 movies of 2000
I guess it’s officially tradition now: I can’t narrow the best films of the year down to only 10, so, like Nigel Tufnel’s amp, this one again goes to 11. Film critics and fans alike have been heard to complain that 2000 was an awful year for film, but I’m not sure that that is … more…
