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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Feature Stories
2005-02-16 00:00:00
After the announcement of last year’s Oscar nominations, in which the Academy made almost shockingly inspired choices across the board, this year’s slate of nominees was bound to be a more predictable lot; barring a few minor surprises – the director and screenplay nods for Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake (still unseen by me) chief among them – voters opted for traditional, safe choices in 2004, especially among the squarer-than-usual Best Picture contenders.
Read More About 2005's Alternative Oscars: The Shoulda-Been Contenders...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2005-01-05 00:00:00
THE AVIATOR
Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, which covers two decades in the life of entrepreneur Howard Hughes, is a skillful, beautifully designed bio-pic, engaging and occasionally thrilling, and, despite a two-and-three-quarter-hour running time, it’s remarkably easy to sit through.
Read More About Scorsese Falters With The Pandering "The Aviator": Also, "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" And "Beyond The Sea"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Feature Stories
2004-10-27 00:00:00
My first article for the River Cities’ Reader appeared in Issue 18, way back in March of 1995. (You know how long ago that was? Tom Hanks had only one Oscar.) Serving as the Reader’s film critic was, and still is, a terrific gig – for an avowed movie fanatic who loves to write, the chance to expound on the state of cinema has always been about more than giving a particular work a “yay” or “nay” vote; it’s given me, in a minor way, the opportunity to analyze an entire culture, to try to understand what’s in the heads of those who make films, and those who distribute films, and the millions of us who view them.
Read More About A Hundred-Plus Reasons To Go To The Movies...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2004-08-18 00:00:00
COLLATERAL
Collateral’s plot is so High Concept you can barely believe it hasn’t been filmed before: A cab driver (Jamie Foxx) unknowingly picks up a hired assassin (Tom Cruise) as a fare, and spends a long, strange evening chauffeuring him from one execution site to another, all the while trying to prevent the killer from performing his rounds without, of course, getting himself killed in the process.
Read More About Despite Contrivances, "Collateral" Is Spectacular Summertime Fare: Also, "Little Black Book," "De-Lovely," And "Coffee & Cigarettes"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2003-12-10 00:00:00
THE LAST SAMURAI
Occasionally, all it takes is sharp cinematography to get critics all woozy. How else to explain the positive notices for Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai, a period epic so unexceptional and derivative it might as well have been called Dances with Wolves Meets Braveheart? (Barkeep! Oscars for all!)
Read More About "The Last Samurai" Derivative, Dull: Also, "Timeline," "The Haunted Mansion," And "The Missing"...
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