“TCM Remembers,” and a few personal thoughts on the year’s departed.
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Al, don’t hang up. We need to talk about these movies of yours.
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Bob Cashill witnesses A Separation, experiences Melancholia, and feels Shame.
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Bob Cashill returns to the multiplex and ponders “Moneyball,” “Drive,” and “The Debt.”
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Bob Cashill isn’t all smiles over the top-grossing adaptation.
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Is a movie that’s 90% awful still worth seeing? If it’s (Optimus) prime Michael Bay, yes, almost. Other, less awful movies are also considered.
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Robin Wright may be The Conspirator in Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination film, as Michelle Williams goes west in Meek’s Cutoff.
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Bob Cashill takes a look at some of the less familiar chapters from a storied career.
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No fooling — Insidious, from the makers of Saw, gets things bumping in the night. Plus, Hilary Swank is The Resident, and the phantasmagorical Santa Sangre, both on DVD.
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London’s hottest show is now playing at a movie theater near you. And a former bride of Frankenstein stars in The Tourist, now on Blu-ray.
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Who’s that girl? Why it’s Jane Eyre, back again, as a new documentary revisits The Boys in the Band and some Monsters cause trouble on home screens.
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Liam Neeson wants to know who he is in Unknown. Characters in Another Year would rather be someone else. Bob Cashill analyzes these identity crises.
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Bob Cashill asks if it’s possible to feel bad about a movie that earns an Academy Award nomination. Yes, says sorrowful Way Back star Ed Harris.
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Just how depressing are the “holiday movies” that have lingered into the new year? Film Editor Bob Cashill tests for gloom as the star of Blue Valentine and All Good Things, Ryan Gosling, anxiously awaits results.
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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.
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Rachel McAdams calls Popdose headquarters to find out what Bob Cashill thought of Morning Glory. He gives her the good and “bang” news.
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Bob Cashill takes aim at The Girl Who Played with Fire on DVD, plus, in theaters, the western Red Hill and the mysterious Amer.
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A status update on The Social Network tags the Wall Street sequel and Inside Job. But the sensitive may want to defriend the horrific Red White & Blue.
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Let Me In is a bloody good translation of the Swedish vampire classic, while on DVD Russell Brand disturbs the peace in a different way in the comedy Get Him to the Greek.
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Two years ago I took a friend to see the acclaimed Broadway revival of The Seagull, starring Kristin Scott Thomas. At intermission we got to talking about some of the…
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Was this the worst summer ever for movies? Depends on whom you ask. One acquaintance said 2000 was the low point, and stuck to it even when I threw out…
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The Tillman Story is an outstanding story of heroism—not, however, the one you were told. Or rather, sold. You remember the official story. How in the wake of 9/11 Tillman,…
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There’s an upside and a downside to writing about a movie like Inception after it’s been in release for several weeks. The advantage, for me, is that you may very…
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As No Concessions heads off to the wilds of Wisconsin, land of Leinenkugels and cheese curds, for its annual constitutional a word must be said about Predators. The other week…
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The word ”asshole” reverberated throughout New York’s Film Forum as the press screening of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, which plays there through July 13, ended. As…
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”Someone explain to me why everyone believes in an impending zombie apocalypse,” requested George A. Romero of the crowd gathered to meet him at a recent sold-out screening of his…
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Is ”I didn’t mind it too much” sufficient criticism of a $200 million dollar behemoth? Probably not for the front office, which demand that we be a little more forthcoming…
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”Aging Gen-Xer Doesn’t Find Bad Movies Funny Anymore” read a headline in The Onion last year, and, no joke, it might as well have been about me. I don’t find…
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Last week, Hit Girl. This week, Hit Pensioner, as Michael Caine mows ’em down as Harry Brown. This is familiar territory for Caine, whose nasty gangland thriller Get Carter still…
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With January and February showing signs of life over the last two years April is now the pre-summer season dumping ground for the also-rans, the never-weres, and The Losers. Furry…