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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2011-11-06 20:24:36
ANONYMOUS
Heaven knows that no one goes to a film by the director of Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 B.C., and 2012 for the cinéma vérité. But how are thinking audiences supposed to react to Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, a tale of Machiavellian intrigue so sincere about its high-minded yet ludicrously silly drivel that one has little choice but to snicker at it?
Read More About Bard None: “Anonymous” And “The Way”...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2011-05-02 13:33:21
WIN WIN
When I say that writer/director Tom McCarthy’s Win Win could easily serve as the inspiration for a long-running TV series, I don’t mean it in any way insultingly, partly because our current small-screen options are, in general, vastly superior to our big-screen ones. Mostly, though, it’s because this serious-minded comedy is so teeming with nuanced, empathetic characters and complicated yet wholly plausible situations and circumstances that you want to luxuriate in Win Win’s universe for far longer than the movie’s too-brief 100 minutes – like, for an hour a week over several seasons.
Read More About McCarthyism ... The Good Kind: "Win Win," "Fast Five," And "Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Feature Stories
2005-08-31 00:00:00
Everyone has movies they love, but you don’t often have loving feelings toward movie houses.
Read More About R.I.P. B&V...
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
2004-01-21 00:00:00
THE STATION AGENT
After spending 90 minutes with the cast of Tom McCarthy’s The Station Agent, I believe I would, à la The Purple Rose of Cairo, have eagerly leapt right into the screen and been content to spend the rest of my life in their company.
Read More About "The Station Agent" Ranks With 2003’S Best Movies: Also, "Big Fish" And "House Of Sand And Fog"...
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