Review: The Wild Robot (2025)
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The DVD Report #130
One of the most satisfying animated features of all time, as well as a front-runner in this year’s Oscar race, Pixar’s Up is a film that pulls you in from the first frame and doesn’t let you go until the last. It begins with a starry-eyed 15-year-old boy becoming transfixed with the career of an…
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The DVD Report #130: November 17, 2009
See what’s coming out this week on DVD! One of the most satisfying animated features of all time, as well as a front-runner in this year’s Oscar race, Pixar’s Up is a film that pulls you in from the first frame and doesn’t let you go until the last. It begins with a starry-eyed 15-year-old…
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Previews: Week Ending November 15, 2009
I was shocked last week when things were so slow, but now they’re even worse. I don’t know if it’s the impending Thanksgiving Holiday, but it’s a super slow day. To prove my point, there are only three new trailers up for review this week, all for 2010 films. The first is the Steve Carell/Tina…
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1990 at the Oscars
Other films may have been better, but in 1990 you were either in the GoodFellas camp or the Dances With Wolves camp. By this time there was a general agreement among certain influential critics that Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull had been the best film of the 1980s. They were flummoxed by the fact Scorsese and…
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Animated Feature – The 20 Semi-Finalists
The Academy announced today the 20 semi-finalists for the Animated Feature Oscar. It’s enough to open the category to 5 nominees. This expands my earlier predictions as follows. After my predictions, please find the Academy’s press release on the matter. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Coraline The Fantastic Mr. Fox The Princess and the…
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1989 at the Oscars
Born on the Fourth of July was the most eagerly anticipated film of 1989. Oliver Stone’s previous Vietnam War movie, Platoon, had cleaned up at the Oscars just three years earlier and this film about war hero turned anti-war activist Ron Kovic, was expected to follow suit. The film was supposed to have been made…
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Review: Ponyo (2009)
Ponyo Rating Director Hayao Miyazaki Screenplay Hayao Miyazaki Length 103 min. Starring Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Kurt Knutsson, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Jennessa Rose, Lily Tomlin, Betty White MPAA Rating G Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review New Hayao Miyazaki animated features are rare and oftentimes difficult to find at…
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Review: Phoebe in Wonderland (2009)
Phoebe in Wonderland Rating Director Daniel Barnz Screenplay Daniel Barnz Length 96 min. Starring Felicity Huffman, Elle Fanning, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman, Campbell Scott MPAA Rating PG-13 for thematic material and brief strong language Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Review What kid wouldn’t have had fun living in Wonderland for a while? For one little girl, Wonderland…
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Review: Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Jennifer’s Body Rating Director Karyn Kusama Screenplay Diablo Cody Length 102 min. Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, Sal Cortez, Ryan Levine, Juan Riedinger, Colin Askey, Chris Pratt, Juno Ruddell, Kyle Gallner, Josh Emerson, J.K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris, Cynthia Stevenson MPAA Rating R for sexuality, bloody violence, language and brief drug use.…
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Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Inglourious Basterds Rating Director Quentin Tarantino Screenplay Quentin Tarantino Length 153 min. Starring Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, August Diehl, Denis Menochet MPAA Rating R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…
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The DVD Report #129
I’ll have DVD reviews of Up, Star Trek and the 70th Anniversary Edition of Gone With the Wind soon, but for now let’s take a little detour into the world of CDs. Now that downloads of songs have become the thing to do, CDs that you can actually hold in your hand may well be…
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Review: The Stoning of Soraya M (2009)
The Stoning of Soraya M Rating Director Cyrus Nowrasteh Screenplay Betsey Giffen Nowrateh, Cyrus Nowrasteh (Book: Freidoune Sahebjam) Length 116 min. Starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno, Jim Caviezel, Navid Negahban, Ali Pourtash, David Diaan, Parviz Sayyad, Vida Ghahremani, Vachik Mangassarian MPAA Rating R for a disturbing sequence of cruel and brutal violence, and brief strong…
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1988 at the Oscars
1988 had probably the most diverse group of winners in awards history with none of the major pre-cursors agreeing on anything. The L.A. Film Critics were the first out of the box this year. They declared the two-part British import, Little Dorrit, directed by Christine Edzard from one of Charles Dickens’ lesser known novels, to…
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TB #5: Feels Like a Nominee, Must Be a Nominee
So, we are at the point of the year where all the major film festivals are over, and so most of the major Oscar contenders have been seen, at least by some film critics and insiders. In fact, there only seem to be three films that no one has yet seen: James Cameron’s Avatar, Peter…
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The DVD Report #128
Christmas comes early on Blu ray with the release not only of the holiday classics, A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life, but with the releases of 50th Anniverary Edition of North by Northwest, the long sought after release of Forrest Gump and Criterion’s first subscriber voted release, Howards End, as well. Charles Dickens’…
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