Film Preview: Evil Dead Burn (2026)
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Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Inglourious Basterds Rating Director Quentin Tarantino Screenplay Quentin Tarantino Length 153 min. Starring Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, August Diehl, Denis Menochet MPAA Rating R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack
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The DVD Report #129
I’ll have DVD reviews of Up, Star Trek and the 70th Anniversary Edition of Gone With the Wind soon, but for now let’s take a little detour into the world of CDs. Now that downloads of songs have become the thing to do, CDs that you can actually hold in your hand may well be
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Review: The Stoning of Soraya M (2009)
The Stoning of Soraya M Rating Director Cyrus Nowrasteh Screenplay Betsey Giffen Nowrateh, Cyrus Nowrasteh (Book: Freidoune Sahebjam) Length 116 min. Starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno, Jim Caviezel, Navid Negahban, Ali Pourtash, David Diaan, Parviz Sayyad, Vida Ghahremani, Vachik Mangassarian MPAA Rating R for a disturbing sequence of cruel and brutal violence, and brief strong
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1988 at the Oscars
1988 had probably the most diverse group of winners in awards history with none of the major pre-cursors agreeing on anything. The L.A. Film Critics were the first out of the box this year. They declared the two-part British import, Little Dorrit, directed by Christine Edzard from one of Charles Dickens’ lesser known novels, to
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TB #5: Feels Like a Nominee, Must Be a Nominee
So, we are at the point of the year where all the major film festivals are over, and so most of the major Oscar contenders have been seen, at least by some film critics and insiders. In fact, there only seem to be three films that no one has yet seen: James Cameron’s Avatar, Peter
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The DVD Report #128
Christmas comes early on Blu ray with the release not only of the holiday classics, A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life, but with the releases of 50th Anniverary Edition of North by Northwest, the long sought after release of Forrest Gump and Criterion’s first subscriber voted release, Howards End, as well. Charles Dickens’
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1987 at the Oscars
1987, like 1986, was a year in which there was no clear front-runner for Best Picture. The National Board of Review was first up, naming Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun the year’s best film and presenting him with their Best Director award as well. The New York Film Critics went the comedy route with
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1986 at the Oscars
1986 was a year of uncertainty at the Oscars. With no front-runner to speak of, the pre-cursors pretty much disagreed about everything. Back in their traditional position of being the first to announce, the National Board of Review went with the Merchant-Ivory production of E.M. Forster’s A Room With a View, but gave their Best
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Review: Saw VI (2009)
Saw VI Rating Director Kevin Greutert Screenplay Marcus Dunston, Patrick Melton Length 90 min. Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Shawnee Smith, Betsy Russell, Peter Outerbridge, Larissa Gomes, Mark Rolston, Tanedra Howard MPAA Rating R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and language Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review With a steady decline
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1985 at the Oscars
Something happened to 1985’s most eagerly anticipated film on the way to the Oscars. Though it won an impressive eleven nominations, its director was ignored and the film itself ended up losing in every category it was nominated for. Steven Spielberg’s film of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple, did not start
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1984 at the Oscars
Two films by former Oscar winning directors dominated the 1984 awards season. Daivd Lean, who previously won for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrenece of Arabia, was represented by A Passage to India while Milos Forman, who previously won for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was represented by Amadeus. Lean’s elaborate production
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The DVD Report #127
It’s a sad commentary on the current state of movie affairs when a by-the-numbers romantic comedy is hailed as the “best comedy of the year”, but The Proposal is nevertheless a pleasant time-killing experience thanks to the charm of its stars. Sandra Bullock is a cold fish publishing executive whose Canadian visa has expired. In
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Oscar Show Producers Announced…
The Academy has announced the producers of this year’s telecast. Basically, the guys behind Coraline, Dark Water, Hairspray, Bedtime Stories and The Wedding Planner are producing. I know this might be exciting news for fans of crappy movies (yes, I realize Hairspray’s a good movie and everything I’ve heard about Coraline is it’s wonderful, but…),
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The DVD Report #126
Paramount has re-mastered Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic, Chinatown in high definition but has released it only on standard DVD, presumably to make more money when they get around to producing a Blu-ray in another year or two. The perfect film noir, it was made thirty years after the genre peaked but with situations and themes
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65 Countries in Competition for 2009 Foreign Language Film Oscar®
Here’s the press release. I’ll have more about it later when I have time to look at the list. Beverly Hills, CA (October 15, 2009) — Sixty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®, Academy President Tom Sherak announced today. The 2009 submissions are: Albania,
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