People Magazine just named their Sexiest Man Alive for 2009 (it’s Johnny Depp – so 2006!) which means it’s time in the name of all that’s symmetrical for us to announce our annual Sexiest Man Dead award for 2009. You can click here to see our previous winners. It was a tough year with a [...]
Like it’s title, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford can feel like too much on the plate, let alone the movie theater marquee. Truth be told, on my first attempt to watch it the sonorous narration, beautiful photography and leisurely pacing conspired to lull me into a sound sleep. Not a [...]
As the run-up to Academy Awards night enters its final week, I’ve noticed a particular amount of backlash for Slumdog Millionaire and especially The Curious Case of Benjamni Button. The Slumdog grumbling centers mostly on the usual handwringing over cultural appropriation – is it OK for a Western director to shoot and set his film [...]
By Noah Mallin Fresh from the trailer bakery is the new one from the Coen Brothers, and it shows them reverting back to screwball form after the existentialist noir of Oscar winner No Country For Old Men. Burn After Reading stars Brad Pitt, Coen vets George Clooney and Frances McDormand, and John Malkovich in a [...]
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