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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")

13 hours ago | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

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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Troma Brings 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead' to HD

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After grossing the highest per-theater average in the nation on its opening weekend and playing in 300 American cinemas, Tromas latest theatrical hit is going high-def. Troma Entertainment announced today that it will enter the Blu-ray market with the February 23 release of Lloyd Kaufmans Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead. Tromas most critically-acclaimed film of the decade, Poultrygeist will be the first in Tromas new line of special edition Blu-ray discs, with a new Blu-ray to follow every month! Shot and screened on 35mm, the film blends the feather ruffling politics of Fast Food Nation, the satire of Shaun Of The Dead, and the show-stopping musical numbers of The Toxic Avenger: The Musical to skewer the fast food industry, limousine liberals, and almost everyone else in American society. »

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400 Screens, 400 Blows - The Year in Small Films

27 December 2009 6:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Was it a good year, or a bad one? Sometimes that assessment just depends on what I saw last. Sometimes the majority of the holiday/awards movies can be dispiriting, but then sometimes the summer movies can be very exciting. One thing I have discovered is that after a few years go by, some of my most passionate picks tend to fade away in favor of other movies that just keeping hanging on. For example, at the end of 2004, I selected Martin Scorsese's The Aviator as one of the best films of the year, but I have never been struck by the urge to see it again. Two other films that did not make my list, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead have since risen in stature and have given me many more hours of enjoyment.

This is generally how I choose my list of favorites, »

- Jeffrey M. Anderson

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The Hot List 2010

26 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Now that 2009 is so last year - well, almost - it's time to look forward to the next 12 months and the start of a new decade. Here we present our guide to 2010: the most promising newcomers, how the old guard are staying ahead of the game, plus the latest creative thinking in the arts, technology, politics and culture

1 Pop Ellie Goulding Ellie Goulding's success in 2010 may be preordained by industry insiders, but don't hold that against her. "I'm a country girl – I couldn't be less sceney if I tried," she laughs. Blessed with sirenlike tones and a gift for cleverly skewed pop, the 22-year-old Welsh singer-songwriter (pictured below) has already been named the winner of next year's Critics Choice Brit Award, last year bestowed on Florence + The Machine, and is putting the finishing touches to her debut album, due out in February. Though weaned on folk and chart pop, »

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Top 10 Horror Films of 2009

25 December 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

Its that time gang where we look back at the best films of 2009 and this go around I want to look at the best horror films of 2009. In an effort to be as transparent as I can I should point out not every film on my list had a theatrical release in 2009. Some had theatrical releases either small or internationally before but never really got wide release until hitting dvd in 2009. So for that reason I have taken some leeway with my list.

There are tons of great horror films out there and I wish I had seen them all but here is 10 that I think stood out from the crowd and are worthy of being added to any fans collection!

Trick R treat: Trick R Treat was released into various niche film festivals and got rave reviews from horror fans and critics and when it hit dvd it lived up to all the hype. »

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Gurinder Chadha's next to premiere at Sundance 2010

22 December 2009 7:30 PM, PST | Bollyspice | See recent Bollyspice news »

Bend It Like Beckham-helmer Gurinder Chadha's keenly anticipated comedy, It's A Wonderful Afterlife (Iawa), has been selected for a world premiere at the coveted Sundance Film Festival, which runs January 21-31, 2010, in Park City, Utah.

Produced by Indian Films and Bend It Films in association with Studio 18, Iawa stars the legendary Shabana Azmi, with a posse of well-known international talent; Goldy Notay, Sally Hawkins, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Zoe Wanamaker and Jimi Mistri, among others.

Azmi plays the role of Mrs. Sethi, a hysterical North-Indian mother who is desperately searching for a son-in-law for her fat daughter.

Shot in London and billed as My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Shaun Of The Dead, Iawa will be released in the UK by Icon on April 2, 2010 (Easter) and in India and Pakistan on April 16, 2010 by Studio 18.

The film has already attracted a host of top-of-the-line mainstream distributors like Icon (Australia »

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Brittany Murphy, East Coast Snow And A Zombie Hand In Today's Twitter-Wood

21 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

This has been a bad holiday season for untimely deaths around Hollywood, and none have been more unexpected than actress Brittany Murphy's on Sunday. Alyssa Milano, Peter Facinelli, Paris Hilton and virtually everyone else with a Twitter account associated with the entertainment industry has something to say about Murphy, and there's a rundown below.

The other big nationwide news of the past weekend has been the massive snowstorm pounding the East Coast. "Twilight" actress Christian Serratos was one of those who had her travel plans derailed by the frozen precipitation dump, on Washington, D.C. You can find those posts after jump along with Fred Durst's "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" clan name and Neil Gaiman's undead lawn ornament. It's in the Twitter-Wood report for December 21, 2009. (Editor's note: You'll see some crossover between this post and our earlier Brittany Murphy tweet round-up. That's okay... this is a »

- Brian Warmoth

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Brittany Murphy Tweets From Peter Facinelli, Paris Hilton And Others In Another Twitter-Wood Early Edition

21 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Earlier today, we brought you an early edition of Twitter-Wood packed chock-full of celebrity praise for James Cameron's sci-fi epic, "Avatar." It's a much more tragic set of circumstances that brings me back to you with another Twitter-Wood early edition.

"Clueless" star Brittany Murphy left us suddenly over the weekend, the victim of a heart attack at the too-young age of 32. The breaking news resulted in an outpouring of grief and sympathy for Murphy's family from around the celebrity Twittersphere. I'll let the people who knew her take it from here...

@ParisHilton So sad to hear about Brittany Murphy, such a tragedy. She was such a beautiful, funny and sweet girl. My heart goes out to her family.

-Paris Hilton, Actress ("The Hottie and the Nottie," "House of Wax")

@peterfacinelli Brittany Murphy... U were Bold, Brave, and Beautiful. Thank you 4 being the free spirit u were, and always »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World gets a UK Release Date and Synopsis

21 December 2009 12:28 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Universal Pictures have just sent us a lovely Christmas email which, as well as sending us Christmas cheer, also reveals the release date and synopsis for Edgar Wright and Michael Cera’s new movie, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.  The email also contained a new image of Michael Cera wielding a light sabre.  The movie also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Satya Bhabha, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Brandon Routh, Johnny Simmons, Mark Webber, Mae Whitman, Ellen Wong and is based on the Oni Press Comic Book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley.

The date in question for this anticipated movie is 27th August. The synopsis gives us a better idea of what we can expect:

Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for totally average garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22 year-old has just met the girl of his dreams… literally. The »

- David Sztypuljak

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John Mayer, Michael Moore, Simon Pegg And Others Respond To 'Avatar' In This Twitter-Wood Early Edition

21 December 2009 12:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

As you all know quite well, "Avatar" hit theaters this weekend. And while celebrities have ways of finagling themselves tickets to official premieres -- I think there's a secret handshake or something -- plenty of them turned out to "slum it" with their adoring public for public screenings of the movie. Or at least, that's what it seems like based on the influx of tweets on our Twitter-Wood feed.

The tone has been mostly positive on the Hollywood insider front. Hell, last week superstar actor Ben Stiller appeared on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" with only one thing in mind: pimping James Cameron's sci-fi epic! "Oh, I'm here to talk about 'Avatar.'" he said. "I'm really excited about it, Conan. It's gonna be... it's just going to be an amazing movie." Hit the jump for more from celebs on "Avatar," fresh from the Twitter-Wood feed.

@johncmayer »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Due Out in the UK on August 27th; First Official Synopsis Released

21 December 2009 9:09 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Folks in the UK can break out their calendars and clear a space for August 27, 2010 because The Playlist is reporting that’s the day Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is scheduled to hit theaters.  However, the film is scheduled to hit France on August 18th.  It’s possible that Universal could be staking out August 20th for the Us because they released Inglourious Basterds on the same weekend this year and it worked out pretty well.  Of course, release dates are always subject to change, but if this date holds and also applies to the Us, Scott Pilgrim will have some interesting competition (provided other released dates hold as well).  While nothing is currently holding August 27th in the Us, The Expendables is due a week before on August 13th, would go up against The Baster starring Jason Bateman and Priest starring Paul Bettany, and then The American »

- Matt Goldberg

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Remembering Dan O'Bannon, Father of Alien

21 December 2009 8:06 AM, PST | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Dan O’Bannon as Pinback, here in the feeding the alien sequence from Dark Star. Photo via. Since he worked as a designer, writer, and only occasional director in an era that prized the single-minded auteur, Dan O’Bannon remained fairly obscure until his death, last Thursday, at the age of 63. But genre fans know that he was one of the great unsung heroes of one of the most critical stories of American popular culture: the ascent of the fantasy genre from children’s guilty pleasure to the red-hot center of Hollywood. He died from a three-decade battle with Crohn’s disease only hours before the opening of James Cameron’s Avatar, a $400 million blockbuster whose ambition, expense, and seriousness of purpose are, in a way, a direct tribute to the success of his passionate lifetime commitment to the fantastic. The top of his long list of accomplishment is creating, »

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Remembering the late, great Dan O'Bannon

18 December 2009 8:28 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This unassuming, multitalented film-maker, who has died aged 63, was best known as the brain behind Alien. But he was so much more

Yesterday, following a short battle with an undisclosed illness, Dan O'Bannon sadly passed away aged 63. While his name should be vaguely familiar to cinemagoers as the writer and creator of Alien, to fans of genre films it should be tattooed somewhere on their person. O'Bannon was part of the fabric of genre films, a fixture. Though his star never rose above a certain elevation, in his own unassuming fashion he was a game-changer in more ways than Avatar will ever manage.

I've always had as much an interest in the nuts-and-bolts technical and artistic side of the movie-making process as in the finished films themselves. In the 1980s I wasn't alone: there were plenty of magazines, such as Cinefantastique, Fantastic Films and Starburst that were full of interviews with behind-the-camera workers. »

- Phelim O'Neill

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100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11-90

18 December 2009 2:17 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Guardian film team's pick of the top 100 movies of the decade. Check back from 21 December as we unveil the top 10 day by day

11-20

11. Waltz With Bashir

12. Dig!

13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped

14. The Consequences of Love

15. No Country for Old Men

16. Silent Light

17. Japon

18. The Sun

19. What Time Is It There?

20. Before Sunset

21-30

21. Unrelated

22. One and a Two

23. Ivansxtc

24. Let the Right One In

25. Of Time and the City

26. When the Levees Broke

27. You Can Count on Me

28. A Serious Man

29. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

30. Control

31-40

31. The Death of Mr Lazarescu

32. Grizzly Man

33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

34. Être et Avoir

35. Far from Heaven

36. Hidden

37. The Hurt Locker

38. Oldboy

39. The New World

40. The Piano Teacher

41-50

41. Spirited Away

42. Vera Drake

43. American Splendor

44. Capturing the Friedmans

45. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

46. Crimson Gold

47. A History of Violence

48. In the Mood for Love

49. Movern Callar

50. The Night of the Sunflowers »

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Exclusive: See our Shaun Of The Dead photoshoot

17 December 2009 2:37 AM, PST | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »

  Back in November, Total Film assembled at a secret location somewhere in London for a photoshoot to die for. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright, the team behind our Comedy of the Decade, Shaun of the Dead, hit the stage suited, booted and cracking so many jokes that the undead legions (lovely volunteers comprised of Tf staff and friends) were breaking character and laughing so hard the photographer couldn't get a shot. Thankfully, the zombies held it together long enough to produce these great images, which feature in the...

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- Dan Goodswen

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News Shorts: December 17th 2009

17 December 2009 1:29 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Posters for Inception, Tron Legacy, Frozen, Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy in Kick Ass, The Back-Up Plan, The Bounty Hunter, High Life.

The first still from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, another shot from Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2, and the Black Beauty car from The Green Hornet.

Trailers are out for the film-related video games - Batman: Arkham Asylum 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, Tron Evolution.

"Shaun of the Dead" director Edgar Wright, along with leads Simon Pegg and Nick Frost retimed for a fun reunion photoshoot at Total Film.

"James Cameron's Avatar will open in 178 IMAX theaters domestically on December 18th 2009 and 83 IMAX theaters internationally starting on December 16th - making this IMAX's widest release to date..." (full details)

"Warner Home Video will release "The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy" will hit Blu-ray on April 6. The nine-disc set contains only the original »

- Garth Franklin

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Roy Disney, 'Avatar' And Copenhagen In Today's Twitter-Wood

16 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Roy Disney's death today was big news in Twitter-Wood, where a lot of folks have been affected by his work and commitment to animation over the course of their careers. It's certainly appropriate that "Toy Story 3" director Lee Unkrich was among the first to post his condolences.

And speaking of animation, Danny DeVito made it onto the guest list for the "Avatar" premiere tonight, and took a picture of his excitable foot to prove it. His "Twins" co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger posted

pic, too, from over in Copenhagen where he's meeting with folks for the U.N. Climate Summit. You can click through all of those tweets after the jump where you'll also find out who may have cut actress Jenna Stern off and which musician/director is working on a new FunnyorDie.com sketch. It's all in the Twitter-Wood report for December 16, 2009.

@OmarDoom: http://twitpic.com/ts6fd »

- Brian Warmoth

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Shaun Of The Dead trio reunites for photo shoot

16 December 2009 11:52 AM, PST | GordonandtheWhale | See recent GordonandtheWhale news »

Those Brit-loving Brits over at Total Film recently named Shaun Of The Dead as their “Best Comedy of the Decade” and I’d be hard-pressed not to agree with them. To mark this prestigious and well-deserved honor, the magazine got writer/direct Edgar Wright, along with Shaun himself/co-writer, Simon Pegg, and his fearless sidekick Nick Frost together for a special photo shoot. It would appear that these boys celebrate by doing what they do best…killin’ zambies! Those clever movie lovers from across the pond have been doing this a lot lately, as Britain’s other top film magazine Empire recently brought us this very cool photo series for their end of the decade special.

Read more on Shaun Of The Dead trio reunites for photo shoot… »

- James Wallace

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Edgar Wright Debuts First Scott Pilgrim Image

16 December 2009 6:58 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Today, filmmaker Edgar Wright is basically in the world for your amusement. First he and his fellow Shaun of the Dead visionaries Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunited for a photoshoot for Total Film, in which the magazine staff played zombies and the three heroes dressed in white tuxedo jackets and laughed the whole thing off. Then on his blog, Wright took a photo of the first still from his next film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. You can see both images below, starting with Scott Pilgrim, a shot that includes much of the main cast-- Michael Cera, Mary-Elizabeth Winstead, Alison Pill and more. Slashfilm also has a "fixed" version of the photo that's slightly easier to see. The film isn't finished yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if we started hearing rumors about a trailer coming soon. Below that is a handful of the Wright/Pegg/Frost vs. zombies »

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Shaun Of The Dead Reunion Pictures

16 December 2009 3:57 AM, PST | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »

As some of you know, my first date with my wife was to “Shaun Of The Dead” and so it holds a special place in my heart. I took the tickets from the film off a friend who at the last minute couldn’t go. She had won them in a local radio contest. The first person I asked to go was another friend and he bailed so I thought to myself. Gee, that girl at Starbucks sure is cute. I had spoken maybe half a sentence to her previously, something like, “Hi, Yeah, ah, grande dark please”. I ran off to Starbucks and asked her in line to go with me. Boom Pow. Now am I Mr. Cool or what? Non stop frivolity ensued that evening thanks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and we’ve been married a year. Zombies were not her thing so if Shawn was »

- endymi0n

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