‘The Descendants’ is another nuanced look at the tragicomic world of the modern adult male from the man who brought us ‘Election,’ ‘About Schmidt,’ and ‘Sideways.’
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Martin Scorsese isn’t really the kind of director you would expect to mount a big-budget family film, but once its clear that the beautifully shot ‘Hugo’ is both an adventure movie and a love letter to restoring classic cinema, it all makes sense.
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The reason I’m writing this post about the best Thanksgiving movies ever is because I wanted to modify my Top 10 Thanksgiving Movies list, but couldn’t. There’s no reason to. It’s just that good. Dare I say “definitive”? Yes, I do.
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Today’s Overlooked Movie Monday looks at an underappreciated film by Tarsem Singh, the visual stylist behind ‘Immortals.’ This is the one film where the director puts all the elements together.
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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart play their connection convincingly, but they are the only ones. Ultimately, this movie has more forced sincerity than a Republican presidential debate.
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Our bi-weekly movie-reference-happy comic strip here on Scene-Stealers is back. Each week his characters recreate a famous scene from a familiar film. See if you can guess this one…
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The 1968 Kaneto Shindo horror classic ‘Kuroneko’ is out in a beautiful new transfer from The Criterion Collection. Check out this DVD and Blu-ray review.
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Martin Scorsese has a lot of recurring themes in the movies he’s directed over the last 44 years, but he’s never helmed a 3D kids’ movie. That is until ‘Hugo’ is released on November 23. With that date approaching, I thought it would be a good time to tackle the filmography of Martin Scorsese, one of America’s greatest directors. Here are the Top 10 Martin Scorsese Movies.
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in 2005, having recently been ousted from the James Bond franchise, Pierce Brosnan bid a bitter adieu and good riddance to the Queen’s suave secret agent, dive bombing every 007 stereotype in the book with his fiendishly funny turn in an overlooked movie from writer/director Richard Shepard called ‘The Matador.’
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Two new historical dramas adapted from best-selling novels are out on Blu-ray and DVD. Read/watch Eric’s review to see if either are worth checking out.
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For anyone curious about exploring the origins of the French New Wave, Claude Chabrol’s ‘Les Cousins’ is a dark, pessimistic, and intelligently mounted film, out now on DVD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
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In podcast #38, Eric and Trevan unceremoniously celebrate their first year of the podcast with a video montage no one can see. They also reminisce about the maddening Clint Eastwood biopic ‘J. Edgar,’ starring Leo DiCaprio and Emilio Estevez directing his dad Martin Sheen in ‘The Way.’
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‘J. Edgar’ is a frustrating watch for sure, and its pace flags several times due to some heavy-handed narration that struggles with these historical themes, but the fact that it’s always fighting itself is kind of fascinating too.
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Eddie Murphy is out as host of the 2012 Academy Awards. Brett Ratner resigned yesterday as producer of the show after making anti-gay remarks, and now his host, Eddie Murphy, has quit as Oscar host.
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With this weekend’s ‘J. Edgar’ coming out, I decided to rank the performances of an icon whose mark is already deeply felt on the world psyche as an actor in many classic films, despite a severe lack of awards to show for it. Here is my list of the Top 10 Clint Eastwood Acting Performances.
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