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Laura here, reporting from my couch in Brooklyn. Like many of you, I watched the Oscars this year hoping for fun and excitement, and instead was met with a barrage of boredom. Regardless, the Academy shone its spotlight on indie talent this year in a rare departure from tradition, and you have to give them [...]

Yes, the time has come again to curl up with your favorite guy or ghoul (hahahahahaha… sorry), tear open a fresh five-pound bag of candy (or three!) and watch something that scares the shit out of you. Happy Halloween, fair readers!10. Dead Alive/Braindead (Peter Jackson, 1992)This classic horror-comedy still represents Peter Jackson’s best [...]

Apparently, Paris Hilton is in this shittacular movie, along with Sarah Brightman (from “Phantom of the Opera,” and little else) and Spy Kids’ Alexa Vega, of all people. Tell me it isn’t the most confounding preview of the year, next to that Lindsay Lohan stripper/killer movie.Official Movie Trailer: REPO! The Genetic Opera (2008)This movie [...]

1. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)2. Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)3. Y Tu Mamá También (Cuarón, 2001)4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001)5. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Leiner, 2004)

SeptemberAcross the UniverseThere has been a lot of drama involved with this film, which the studios wanted to cut down for length and, presumably, content. Julie Taymor refused to put her name on the chopped-up version, which I admire. Now it looks like the issues have been resolved, and I’m glad they were, [...]

Let me preface this by noting that The Simpsons held a pretty prominent place in my childhood, rearing, and subsequent sense of humor formation like so many children of the 80’s can claim. I’m not sure exactly where I fall on the scale of Simpsons obsession, but I can say that I’ve considered this venerable [...]

You know what would make a really great movie?  A sequel to the Tom Hanks blockbuster Cast Away in which Tom’s lovelorn FedEx dude decides he’s going to go back out to that ocean and find Wilson, no matter what it takes.  In case you don’t remember, Wilson was Tom’s best friend until he got lost [...]

Oh, the James Bond films. Once little more than campy good fun, they started to take themselves too seriously somewhere along the line, and now we’re left with, well, Casino Royale.The thing is, it’s not a competely consistent trend. Though I adore the old films, especially the Connery ones, they sometimes get a [...]

Certain genres of film require a level of timeliness, a sense that the world of the film is very much like your own.  Stephen King has noted that he scatters common brand names throughout his stories to lend a sense of familiarity and reality, thereby making the horror all the more horrific.  Indeed, it seems like [...]

As I sit at my computer on this fine April 20th (cough, cough), preparing to review Al Gore’s fine documentary/Power Point presentation (docupoint?) An Inconvenient Truth, it strikes me that most people have already either seen the film or they’ve been so inundated with hype they wouldn’t add it to their Netflix queue if you [...]