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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2009-12-28 13:59:51
UP IN THE AIR
Heading to Chicagoland on December 23, I spent the whole of my journey driving through a torrential and laughably unseasonable rainstorm, and the trek that normally takes two-and-three-quarter hours wound up taking close to four. Consequently, I missed out on dinner with my folks, arriving in town just in time to meet them for our planned evening screening of the new George Clooney movie.
Read More About Laid Off, Laid Out, Laid: “Up In The Air,” “Sherlock Holmes,” And “It’S Complicated”...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Feature Stories
2006-03-08 00:00:00
In the minutes following the announcement of this year’s Academy Awards nominations, media outlets were abuzz about the downbeat nature of the major contenders, and it was widely predicted that this year’s Oscar telecast – which aired on Sunday, March 5 – would be the lowest-rated one in ages.
Read More About “I’D Like To Thank … ”: 2006 Oscar Aftermath...
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: Reviews
2004-01-14 00:00:00
Are mainstream movies, in general, becoming more and more stale? The question arose a couple of weeks ago when an acquaintance asked if I’d seen anything good recently. After a pause I was finally able to reply, “Uh ... Return of the King?”
“Well, of course that. Anything since then?”
Read More About Holiday Fare A Depressing Lot: "Peter Pan," "Mona Lisa Smile," And "Cheaper By The Dozen"...
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.)
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