Was 1990 really the 90s, or was it just the hangover from the 80s? While you ponder that, consider that Nirvana and Tarantino were still a year away and a little show called Seinfeld was confusing a tiny audience before supplanting Cheers as NBC’s big sitcom property. There was also the little matter of Gulf [...]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The movie industry was in transition in 1980 – away from the auteur-driven seventies golden era and towards the age of the eighties blockbuster. Ringing out the old guard were duds like Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, which became shorthand for out-of-control directorial hubris and Robert Altman’s Popeye which made a better soundtrack than a film. Representing [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The decade that’s ending has the ignominy of following the 1990’s, an era that will be looked back on as a creative peak rivaling the 1970’s for cinema. This is not to say the 00’s sucked as there were some great films and wonderful talents that emerged all over the world.
Pixar proved that the Toy [...]
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Tagged 40-Year-Old Virgin, Almost Famous, Arts, Best of the 00s, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Dark Knight, Donald Rumsfeld, Entertainment, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Film, Judd Apatow, Movies, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, United States
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Every year at this time, we here at Mallination try to bring you a new list of Thanksgiving Turkeys – films so bad they can only be compared to a dumb, flightless, tasty, “jive” bird. As an added bonus I’ve invited guest blogger Sean McDonald to contribute his own list of 5 to my list [...]
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Tagged Actor, Alicia Witt, Antonio Banderas, Arts, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Doors, Film, Movies, Oliver Stone, turkeys, val kilmer
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
1989 – the year that gave us the superhero blockbuster with Tim Burton’s Batman (alas too flawed a film to quite make my final list) and a slew of Amerindie classics by future top line directors like Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and Steven Soderberg. Here, then, are the best 15 films of [...]
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Tagged 1989, daniel day-lewis, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gus Van Sant, Heathers, Hong Kong, Hudson Hawk, My Left Foot, Noah Mallin, Winona Ryder
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