Note to self: Sentiment outranks everything else when picking a Best Foreign Language Film winner in the Oscar pool. I’m not-so-secretly pleased that the stone-cold, auteurist-approved White Ribbon didn’t blue-ribbon…
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Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel’s latest Soundtrack Saturday is one singular sensation.
Dave Matos and Mikey Newman
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Thinking about going to see She’s Out of My League this weekend? Don’t buy your ticket before watching the Trailer Trash review.
Scott Malchus
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Halfway through Rebecca Miller’s excellent The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, I began to wonder whether actress Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) was channeling Robin Wright’s performance, or vice versa. Both…
Scott Malchus
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Gentlemen Broncos is the brainchild of Jared and Jerusha Hess, the creators of Napoleon Dynamite. Whereas that cult classic was able to capitalize on the quirks of small town Utah…
Bob Cashill
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The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) paired Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the nick of time. Two years later 55-year-old Chan is playing the Mr. Miyagi part in the Karate Kid…
Scott Malchus
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Outrageous, over the top and a purely visceral experience, Bitch Slap is a throwback to the grindhouse pictures of the ’60s and ’70s, the kind of films that featured women…
Scott Malchus
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The latest entry into the category of Kaufman-esque surreal comedies, derived from the name of writer/director Charlie Kaufman, whose films include Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, is Sophie Barthes’s Cold…
Popdose Staff
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We’ve opened up our chat room for tonight’s Hollywood festivities. Won’t you join us?
Jeff Giles
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Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is a wonderful book, and one of a few novels that I read three or four times as a kid. It was something of a…
Bob Cashill
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Almost three years ago to the day I posted on my blog an open letter to my long-time crush object Sandra Bullock. The news was not good. Read on… Dear…
Kelly Stitzel
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Phil Collins and Aimee Mann in a battle to the death! Kelly Stitzel takes us back ten years in her final look at Best Original Song nominees of Oscars past.
Dave Matos and Mikey Newman
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Who needs to watch the damn movies? Not you, that’s for sure — now that Dave Matos and Mikey Newman are here with Trailer Trash, the only show on the…
Zack Dennis
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Looking for a handy way to keep track of your picks for Sunday’s Academy Awards winners? Zack Dennis is here to help.
Jeff Johnson
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Jeff Johnson sorts out the contenders and makes his picks for this year’s Oscar winners. Who do you think will win?
Scott Malchus
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I recently saw Hot Tub Time Machine and thought I’d seen the most ridiculous (yet hilarious) John Cusack movie in some time. I was wrong. 2012 is not only the…
Bob Cashill
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”Film culture today,” I muttered, as I waded through (and into) an unusually bothersome post on the usually half-annoying (but compulsively readable) Hollywood Elsewhere site. Look: It’s OK not to…
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel returns us to 1988 in her latest look at the Best Original Song nominees of Oscars past.
Scott Malchus
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Writer-director Katherine Dieckmann’s new indie film, Motherhood, has the look and feel of an extended episode of Sex in the City, if Carrie Bradshaw settled down in an old apartment…
Jeff Johnson
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King Kong, from King Kong (1933). In terms of special effects, the big ape in Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake might look better, but it’s hard to top the badassity of…
Bob Cashill
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The documentarian who co-produced The War Room enters the battlefield of fashion with Vogue editor Anna (“Nuclear”) Wintour in The September Issue, out on DVD.
Scott Malchus
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Robert De Niro stars in Everybody’s Fine, a remake of a 1990 Italian film starring Marcello Mastroianni. You can feel the sentimental influence from the earlier film all over this…
Scott Malchus
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Women in Trouble is yet another L.A. ensemble movie in which various strangers intersect on one day and all lives are altered in some way. This film is unique in…
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel’s special Oscar-themed columns continue with a look at 1997’s race for the Best Original Song trophy.
Dave Matos and Mikey Newman
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Wondering whether you should plunk down for a ticket to Shutter Island this weekend? Dave Matos and Mikey Newman are here to help.
Bob Cashill
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I have a Clint Eastwood problem. But a new mega-set of his movies, Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros., obliges me to take the long view. This…
Ken Shane
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“To live now, as human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” Howard Zinn (1922-2010) In these days of sneering…
Scott Malchus
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With the NBA All Star Game behind us and March Madness just around the bend, two new DVD releases about basketball should keep all you round ball junkies appeased when…
Bob Cashill
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Solid craftsmanship disguises some rickety timber in The House of the Devil. Writer/director/editor Ti West says in one of the DVD’s two commentary tracks that he had Polanski and Kubrick…
Kelly Stitzel
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It’s awards season, which means it’s time for Kelly Stitzel to pay tribute to some Oscar-approved soundtrack songs. This week: 1981!