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The star-powered movie isn't dead, it's just resting.
Wed, Feb 3 2010 10:00 AM
Wendy Ide at the London Times makes an Oscary point that's become almost a meme I'd like to dispatch once and for all if I could. She claims the nominations are playing out "a struggle for the future of Hollywood." But... remember the famous 1996 arthouse shoot-out of "The English Patient," "Fargo," "Secrets & Lies"... Read More...
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Meryl Streep is not a Na'vi.
Mon, Jan 25 2010 1:02 PM
Profiling the directorial debut of "Ghost Whisperer" creator John Gray -- who's financing his directorial debut "White Irish Drinkers" with $600,000 out of his own pocket -- The New York Times' John Anderson feels it necessary to tell us that "it's never been a tougher climate for independent film, since they don't usually... Read More...
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George Clooney does the airport stare.
Wed, Sep 9 2009 3:05 PM
If you weren't already aware of how our recent economic state has made the source material for Jason Reitman's new film "Up in the Air" extra-extra-melancholy, the teaser trailer, released earlier today, makes it perfectly clear. You don't even need to listen to George Clooney's corporate keynote-***-voiceover about literal and metaphorical... Read More...
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