The American (Focus Features, 2010) That’s a pissed-looking George Clooney with a gun on the cover, so The American must be a pulse-pounding spy thriller, right? Wrong, suckas! Director Anton…
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Jeff Giles
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Inception (Warner Bros., 2010) For all the high-tech gewgaws that help modern Hollywood filmmakers get their visions to the screen, we’re living in a depressingly undemanding time for cinema —…
Jeff Giles
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The Town (Warner Bros., 2010) Less than a decade after he went from marquee idol to laughingstock, Ben Affleck regained his mojo by reinventing himself as a director with Gone…
Dw. Dunphy
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Hey, East Coast, are you feeling a little European today? It’s the last great Blizzard of 2010, folks. I have just finished digging out our driveway (thanks to the neighbors…
Mike Duquette
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Every holiday season, dozens of writers attempt to trivialize the holiday season through popular culture. Chestnuts like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and A Christmas Story are…
Jeff Giles
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Cyrus (20th Century Fox, 2010) Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly co-starring in a film — it’s gotta be a raunchy, Apatow-style comedy, right? You’d think so, but as Cyrus…
Jeff Giles
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No Hollywood studio fetishizes its past as enthusiastically as Disney, so it’s ironic that — as the thoroughly engrossing documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty makes tragically clear — the executives at…
Dw. Dunphy
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I have a soft spot for some of the near-misses from the 1980’s, typically big-concept genre movies that were either too earnest, too cheap, too goofy or too Too for…
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel closes out 2010 with one of her favorite Soundtrack Saturday columns ever about the classic romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally. We hope you’ll have what she’s having.
Bob Cashill
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Bob Cashill says movies weren’t just a laughing matter for the director of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “The Pink Panther,” and “Victor Victoria.”
Jeff Johnson
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25 years ago, with the U.S. release of Brazil, director Terry Gilliam took on a major Hollywood studio and won.
Bob Cashill
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Tis the season for awards, nominations, and citations. As he makes his own list Bob Cashill separates the naughty (“Black Swan”) from the nice, including an uncloseted Jim Carrey.
Kelly Stitzel
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‘Tis the season for bickering and burglary. Kelly Stitzel brings you the soundtrack to one of the funniest holiday movies of the past 20 years, Ted Demme’s The Ref.
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Robert Cass
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Axel Foley, the Terminator, Supergirl, Mozart, and God all make appearances in this week’s Box Office Flashback to December 10, 1984.
Dw. Dunphy
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There’s one thing you have to say about the editors of movies and their trailers, and by extension, those who score the movies afterward. Even if the director has an…
Jeff Giles
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Flipped (Warner Bros., 2010) Remember the pre-North era, when Rob Reiner could do no wrong? Those days were long ago. Now, we count ourselves lucky if a Reiner movie is…
Pete Chianca
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When I was a kid, every year around this time I would watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. I did this despite the fact that critics regularly put this 1964…
Jeff Giles
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Going the Distance (Warner Bros., 2010) Romantic comedies are as plentiful as the rain, and no matter how many postmodern wrinkles Hollywood ever adds to the genre, it’s always gonna…
Jeff Johnson
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As Young Sherlock Holmes turns 25, this week’s Revival House takes a look back.
Bob Cashill
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Presto chango! Another effects-driven vehicle for Nicolas Cage isn’t Mickey Mouse at all, with a magical supporting role for New York.
Scott Malchus
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Buried somewhere in this mess is a good idea and a lot of heart. However, the writing and the execution drain any life from the movie, leaving the film’s five stars to improvise and try to come up with funny material.
Dw. Dunphy
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The Reaper respects no holiday, and so it is that two film luminaries passed this past weekend. The first, Leslie Nielsen, needs no introduction. While he first came to notoriety…
Jeff Johnson
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For this week’s Revival House, Jeff Johnson takes a look back at Michael Crichton’s filming of the very first train heist.
Bob Cashill
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Happy holidays, David Bowie…and to all a good last-day sale as Barnes and Noble’s Criterion Collection blowout winds down. Bob Cashill sifts recent releases.
Kelly Stitzel
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As you get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, be thankful that you don’t have to spend the holiday with a bratty pre-teen with a bad haircut. Join Kelly Stitzel as she takes a look at the soundtrack for the John Hughes-penned 1991 film, Dutch.
Jeff Giles
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Mutiny on the Bounty (Warner Bros., 1935) It made Oscar history as the first film to earn Best Actor nominations for all three of its male leads (an admittedly distinguished…
Jeff Giles
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Ocean’s 11 (Warner Bros., 1960) They’re a pop culture institution — hell, they’re heroes to some people — but the Rat Pack really didn’t make that many movies as a…
Kelly Stitzel
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Thanksgiving is for lovers. Wait, what? Join Kelly Stitzel as she explores the soundtrack of one of Woody Allen’s best films, Hannah and Her Sisters.
Jeff Giles
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Ultimate Edition) (Warner Bros., 2010) As the Harry Potter franchise begins drawing to a close at the box office, Warner Bros. continues its…
Jeff Giles
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As the latest round of would-be blockbusters lines up at a theater near you, Popdose looks back at the box office totals of yesteryear. This week we revisit the top…