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Films Of The Decade – Alex’s List
18 December 2009 4:15 PM, PST
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10 years is bloody ages in film terms. To narrow it down to my ten favourite films of the decade was no easy task. Even now I look at my list and can’t help but think…where the hell is Gladiator? Why didn’t I include any Lord Of The Rings films? What about The Dark Knight? Damn, what about The Lives Of Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, Finding Nemo, Downfall, No Country For Old Men? All of those films are incredible candidates and on another day they might have made it. The truth is no self-respecting film buff will ever be able to narrow down 10 films to fit a list and not have it change every so often.
One day my opinion of the best film of all time will be Seven Samurai the next day it will be Apocalypse Now and the day after that it might be Night Of The Hunter.
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- Alex Wagner
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Audio/Visual: A Decade of Music in Film
18 December 2009 1:19 AM, PST
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I chose my previous two film scores based on both their distinctiveness in both context and content, but also because they had certain weaknesses that, while important to their character, still kept them from being the kind of landmark works that are universally acknowledged as ground-breaking and important. The three scores I’m highlighting this week were chosen specifically for both their widespread popularity and critical success.
Let’s begin with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This is a score that many, many people who are even remotely familiar with the film are aware of in terms of importance. Like the other films I’m focusing on here, the music of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon goes hand in hand with the other elements of the movie, but it could be said that, out of the three, this score is the most potent accompaniment. This is mostly because of the movie’s setting; feudal China.
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- Chris
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Critical Thinking: Avatar, Nine, Morgans
17 December 2009 8:56 PM, PST
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Avatar
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% (7.4/10)
Metacritic: 84/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "Children of Men," "Milk," "The Princess and The Frog"
Crazy Heart
Rotten Tomatoes: 96% (7.4/10)
Metacritic: 83/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "The Cove," "The Dark Knight," "Eastern Promises," "Michael Clayton"
Did You Hear About the Morgans
Rotten Tomatoes: 11% (3.3/10)
Metacritic: 30/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "The Cat in the Hat," "Norbit," "Saw VI," "The Unborn"
Nine
Rotten Tomatoes: 31% (4.6/10)
Metacritic: 51/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "My Bloody Valentine 3D," "Ninja Assassin," "Transporter 3"
The Young Victoria
Rotten Tomatoes: 71% (6.2/10)
Metacritic: 62/100
Films with Comparable Scores: "The Blind Side," "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," "The Duchess"
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- Garth Franklin
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Austin Film Critics Agree, The Hurt Locker is Best of ‘09
16 December 2009 7:05 AM, PST
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The wonderful group of fine professional film critics and journalists known as the Austin Film Critics Association -- a group that includes the membership of yours truly and Fsr Managing Editor Dr. Cole Abaius -- has announced its award winners for the year 2009.
Within said winners are plenty of unsurprising results, including the unanimous support for Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, which took home Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography. We also delivered the Best Actor award to Colin Firth, whose performance in A Single Man seems to have him right in the Oscar hunt with George Clooney (Up in the Air) and Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart).
Among the surprises, Mélanie Laurent came out of nowhere to take Best Actress for her role in Inglourious Basterds, with co-star Christoph Waltz winning yet another Best Supporting Actor award (I wonder if he'll win the Oscar...) Two fantastic choices (my votes, for
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- Neil Miller
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Sci-Fi Squad Names The Best Science Fiction Films of the Decade
13 December 2009 3:32 PM, PST
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It's been ten years since we crossed into the seemingly futuristic "Year 2000." While we didn't get moon colonies or hovercars, we did get a collection of amazing science fiction films, both blockbusters and indies. The staff of Sci-Fi Squad has compiled their top ten (okay, eleven) favorite films of the decade, a list that will allow you to nod your head in agreement or spit venom at us in the comments. So now, in alphabetical order...
Children of Men (2006, Dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
The opening scenes of Children of Men plunge the viewer neck-deep into an icy future with an expiration date firmly set. The human race faces extinction because women all over the world have become infertile: no children have been born for a generation. The British government endeavors to stave off chaos by deporting all foreigners, but many of its citizens have already succumbed to hopelessness and despair. Theo
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Cuaron and Depp Find Its a High Season for 'The Tourist'
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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The French film from which The Tourist is based from (Anthony Zimmer) contains a narrative DNA that is very kaiser soze, but to be frank about it, I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. Spyglass Entertainment is seeing a lot of action for a tale about a wanted man...its mostly due to scheduling conflicts. - The French film from which The Tourist is based from (Anthony Zimmer) contains a narrative DNA that is very kaiser soze, but to be frank about it, I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. Spyglass Entertainment is seeing a lot of action for a tale about a wanted man...its mostly due to scheduling conflicts. Male lead Sam Worthington has jumped ship and an even better replacement in Johnny Depp might take the part. Meanwhile, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck who just recently considered taking helming duties has dropped the pic,
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- Ioncinema.com Staff
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Gears of War Movie an Origin Story?
10 December 2009 2:59 PM, PST
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In June 2008, New Line Cinema officially announced Len Wiseman (Underworld, Die Hard 4) as their director pick for a Gears of War movie scheduled for 2010. The news came on the heels of the wildly popular video game by Epic Games, which produced a second in November 2008 that sold two million copies on its release weekend.
The trick for the movie, like most video game adaptations, is to find a story worth telling amidst the slick gameplay, rich alien world, and grenade explosions. Events in the first game unfold on the fictional planet of Sera, where humans battle an underground race called the Locust, and the second picks up six months later. Wiseman suggested in January this could even become a trilogy of sorts, a sci-fi Lord of the Rings style epic.
Championing the game-to-movie project from the beginning has been producer Wyck Godfrey, who also worked behind the scenes on the record-breaking Twilight Saga: New Moon.
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- Jeff Leins
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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
8 December 2009 10:25 PM, PST
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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Audio/Visual: A Decade of Music in Film
8 December 2009 8:10 PM, PST
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This week marks the beginning of a series of columns in which I’m putting forth what I personally consider to be the best film scores of the past decade (2000-2009). It was not an easy task; I locked myself away for the better part of November and listened to all the film scores I felt were worthy, and many I didn’t. I fielded suggestions from random strangers, close friends, and many people in between. The list I ended up with was pared down via some necessary filters. I disqualified musicals and soundtracks that consisted of songs from various artists. This brought up an interesting nuance; if a film score consisted of many songs written by a single artist, did it qualify? I chose to consider it only if those songs were composed specifically for the film because while we don’t traditionally think of film scores this way,
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- Chris
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Terminator: Salvation Blu-ray Review
7 December 2009 6:43 PM, PST
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With Terminator: Salvation, two things are apparent: McG shouldn’t be underrated, and franchise filmmaking robs franchise films of anything challenging. Ts is the fourth entry in the Terminator canon, and it is the first of the franchise to be set during the future wars (usually shown in brief flashbacks) that fans had long clamored for. It also has a distinctive feature in that it’s the first film without the heavy participation of Arnold Schwarzenegger. My review of Terminator Salvation after the jump.
The film starts in the recent past (2003) when convict Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) is being put to death and a researcher (Helena Bonham Carter) wants him to donate his body to science. Cut to 2018, and John Connor (Christian Bale) is part of the resistance fighting the evil Skynet and their terminators. Bale is introduced with a fairly impressive sequence that tries to emulate the one-shot wonders in Children of Men.
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- Andre Dellamorte
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Blu-Ray Review: Forgettable ‘Terminator Salvation’ Gets Supreme Treatment on Blu-Ray
7 December 2009 1:38 PM, PST
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Chicago – The “Terminator” series is not one of the great modern movie franchises. The films have mainly served as ideal vehicles for the limited acting range of Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose muscular build and Austrian accent were perfect for the role of a formidable, oft-mute cyborg. A “Terminator” picture without him is like an “Alien” picture without Sigourney Weaver. The best entries of both franchises were their second installments directed by James Cameron. “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”’s tireless invention and energy were a real kick, and the filmmakers came up with some unforgettable images, such as the shape-shifting T-1000.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
“Terminator Salvation,” the fourth (and hopefully final) entry in the series, attempts to reboot the stale franchise by setting its story in a post-Judgment Day wasteland, where much of humanity has been destroyed by their machines. This supposedly fresh approach to the material is derivative of every post-apocalyptic thriller in recent memory.
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Twilight studio teams with Brad Pitt for Dracula origin tale
7 December 2009 5:38 AM, PST
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Having enjoyed success with its Twilight vampire romance films, Summit Entertainment is now going to the source with a project about the man on whom the Dracula legend is based.
Summit has picked up Vlad, a script by actor Charlie Hunnam with music video maker Anthony Mandler in talks to direct the feature, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Mandler has worked with Rihanna (on 10 of her videos), The Killers and Eminem. Executives were impressed by a reel he prepared, which drew comparisons to Zack Snyder's work on 300.
Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner will produce through their Plan B Entertainment production company.
Charlie Hunnam's acting credits include the television series Queer as Folk, Young Americans and Sons of Anarchy and the movies Cold Mountain and Children of Men.
Vlad is described as an action-oriented take on the man behind the story, with Summit hoping to make a "a visually edgy
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- David Bentley
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Dracula Film Vlad In Development At Summit
7 December 2009 2:50 AM, PST
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Summit Entertainment, the production house that created The Twilight Saga, is currently developing an action heavy adaptation of Dracula called Vlad. It is set to be based on a screenplay by actor Charlie Hunnam, who starred in Children Of Men.
Summit is in talks with music-video director and photographer Anthony Mandler to direct. Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner will produce through Plan B Entertainment.
The story focuses on a young prince known to history as Vlad the Impaler and as the man who became Dracula.
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Summit Bringing Us a Real Vampire Movie With A Dracula Remake, Vlad
7 December 2009 1:43 AM, PST
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Summit just can't quit those vampires. The studio is apparently working on their own action-heavy Dracula remake, entitled Vlad, with a script by actor Charlie Hunnam. After loving the guy on Undeclared, Children of Men, and Sons of Anarchy, a vampire script from Hunnam comes as a bit of a surprise. Music video director Anthony Mandler is in negotiations to direct, and Brad Pitt is producing via Plan B along with Dede Gardner. Not surprisingly, the film will apparently center on Dracula as the young prince Vlad.
Apparently, Summit saw 300 parallels with Mandler's reel, and they're hoping for a similarly stylistic approach to the film. I've seen a few of his videos, and his dark and moody style could certainly work well with a vampire story. Normally I'm suspicious of the trend to 300ify everything, but in this particular case it may actually work.
There's no word on casting yet,
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- Devindra Hardawar
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Clive Owen: 'I prefer theatre roles'
5 December 2009 8:30 AM, PST
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Clive Owen has reportedly claimed that he prefers theatre acting to making Hollywood movies. The Children Of Men star has revealed that he plans to give up his film career and only concentrate on roles for the stage. Speaking to Tele 5, Owen said: "I'm actually pretty sure that this will happen soon. I would imagine I'd have to stop the films in order to concentrate entirely on my stage career. I've always played theatre roles." The 45-year-old also said that he has realised that (more)
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Eli Roth Producing Environmental Sci-Fi Action Film 'Invasion'
2 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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Summit Entertainment, hot off "New Moon"'s golden box office performance, is announcing a number of projects this week, including a sci-fi action movie titled "Invasion," which will be produced by horror filmmaker Eli Roth and Eric Newman ("Children of Men"). According to ShockTillYouDrop.com, the idea is being compared to "Cloverfield," likely in the way it will depict an apocalyptic situation from the limited perspective of a small group of protagonists.
The project, which began with a spec script by Ben Magid, is said to have an environmental theme, putting it in the same boat as "The Happening" and "The Day After Tomorrow." I'd like to suggest Roth and Newman hire filmmaker Larry Fessenden to direct now that he's no longer doing Guillermo del Toro's "Orphanage" remake. Fessenden has proven with films like "The Last Winter" that environmentalist themes don't have to be cheesy or too preachy.
As for the "Cloverfield" similarities,
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- Christopher Campbell
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Is Hollywood Going Alien Crazy? Will Aliens Become the New Vampires?
30 November 2009 8:45 PM, PST
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Ben Magid's spec screenplay Invasion has sold to Summit Entertainment/Participant for low to mid six figures. The story, which is an alien invasion thriller in the same vein as Cloverfield, is being produced by Eli Roth and Eric Newman (Children of Men, Slither). According to Shock, "the film opens with a wicked subway accident in Los Angeles in which the survivors (the film's protagonists) climb from the wreckage to find the, now "snowy," city in ruins." No further details are available at this time. Magid made a name for himself in 2006, selling a pitch to New Line for his script Pan, a spin on J.M. Barrie's tale of Peter Pan, where Pan is a villain being hunted by a police captain named Hook. He has since taken a stab at an early draft for the live-action adaptation of Hack/Slash.
With the success of recent films like the
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- Peter Sciretta
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Exhibit A Trailer Online
30 November 2009 12:12 AM, PST
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Ever wondered what the credit crunch could lead to? Inspired by news stories about devoted family men who turn murderous under pressure, this is first look at the new trailer for Exhibit A, the pantwettingly scary camcorder horror which was first screened at festivals in 2007 when it won Best UK Feature at the Raindance Film Festival and was nominated for two BIFAs.With hand-held scares in the vein of The Blair Witch Project, [Rec] and Paranormal Activity’s, this time the horror comes from a distinctly non-supernatural source. A dad’s failed attempt to sort out family troubles eventually leads to murder, the slow build up to which is detailed through the his teenage daughter’s video camera – the titular Exhibit A.Stunt fans should also doff their caps to coordinator Roy Alon who died in 2006 after a record-breaking career performing stunts in Bond, the Indiana Jones trilogy and Children of Men
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The Sunday Movie Quiz – The Answers
29 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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Here are the answers to yesterday’s weekly Sunday Movie Quiz. If you missed the quiz yesterday, go here and give it a try before you look at the answers. Hope you had fun, and will come back for another quiz next Sunday.
Movie Quotes – Name the films
1 I’ll have what she’s having. – When Harry Met Sally
2 Yes Miss Daisy, I be honking. – The Long Kiss Goodnight
3 So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation… – Alien
4 Alrighty then. – Ace Ventura – Pet Detective
5 Watch out for that first step, it’s a doozy. – Groundhog Day
6 It’s like looking in a mirror, only, not. – Face/Off
7 Hi, I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork, how have you been? – Grosse Point Blank
8 You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain’t never seen a donkey fly. – Shrek
9 Tell me about it,
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- Barry Steele
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The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 77 - Imagined Worlds, Children of Men....
28 November 2009 11:13 AM, PST
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient audio file. In this episode, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley talk about the role of imagined worlds in some of their favorite films. Also, film critic Mike D'Angelo joins us to discuss his article decrying the use of long continuous shots in Children of Men, and to assess Anne Thompson's claim that film criticism is a dying art.
You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next Monday at 9 Pm Est / 6 Pm Pst at Slashfilm's live page as
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