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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Also 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, 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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Also tagged Actor, Alicia Witt, Antonio Banderas, Arts, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Doors, Film, Oliver Stone, turkeys, val kilmer
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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 lot [...]
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Also tagged Arts, awards, brad pitt, george clooney, Isla Fisher, Johnny Depp, Last Tango in Paris, Marlon Brando, people, Robert Pattinson, Sacha Baron Cohen, sexiest man dead, Twilight
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If you didn’t sprout boobs or grow body hair in the 1980s the death of John Hughes likely leans little to you. Let’s be blunt, he was neither a great director or writer and to my critical faculties won’t allow me to rate any of his films at the top of the 80s teen flick [...]
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