items tagged with Paul Giamatti
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Feature Stories
2004-02-25 00:00:00
For the past couple of years, as a prelude to the Academy Awards presentation (scheduled to air on ABC at 7 p.m. on Sunday, February 29), I’ve devoted an article to re-constructing the top six Oscar categories, replacing what I felt were unworthy contenders with my own personal preferences; this enabled me to extoll the virtues of the deserving while also allowing me to whine, “Why the hell didn’t Naomi Watts get noticed for Mulholland Dr.?” And before this year’s contenders were announced in late January, I was already writing my annual article in my head: “Where’s Johnny Depp’s nomination? And what about Keisha Castle-Hughes? And how about Marcia Gay Harden and Shohreh Aghdashloo and Fernando Meirelles?” And then what did the Academy go and do? They nominated them all.
Read More About The 2004 Alternate Oscars...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Feature Stories
2003-12-24 00:00:00
Among the year’s seemingly endless spate of business-as-usual Hollywood product, with the remakes and sequels and – in the case of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – a de facto remake of a sequel, I saw exactly one work in 2003 that, with absolutely no qualms, I would call a masterpiece, and it made its debut on HBO. (It was that kind of year.)
Read More About 2003 In Movies...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2003-11-12 00:00:00
THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
The Matrix was, for me, mostly hooey, and this summer’s The Matrix Reloaded seemed, at best, visually resplendent nonsense, so imagine my surprise when I attended The Matrix Revolutions and found myself really enjoying it.
Read More About "The Matrix Revolutions" Emerges As The Best Of The Matrix Series: Also, "Elf" And "American Splendor"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2003-04-30 00:00:00
IDENTITY and CONFIDENCE
By some bizarre coincidence, this past weekend saw the arrival of two new films, Identity and Confidence, that share an almost frightening number of similarities.
Read More About "Identity" And "Confidence" Flawed But Enjoyable: Also, "City Of God," "Bulletproof Monk," And "Malibu's Most Wanted"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2001-08-01 00:00:00
PLANET OF THE APES
My guess is that Tim Burton’s “re-imagining” of Planet of the Apes will meet the same fate as 1999’s The Blair Witch Project and last year’s X-Men: It’ll stand as the most misunderstood, and least appreciated, blockbuster of the summer.
Read More About Take The Ride To A New "Planet": "Planet Of The Apes" And "America's Sweethearts"...
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