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The Non-Bonds: James Bond's Bitter, Decades-Long Battle... with James Bond
While the James Bond film franchise remains one of the most acclaimed, successful, recognizable and marketable movie series in history, there was a time when the mighty Mister Bond had some stiff competition at the box office: himself.
04 Oct 2012
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In All Things Pop Culture, Reinterpretation is the Key to Relevancy
Everyone bemoans the remake, the bastardization of their memories, of something they hold dear. But times are constantly shifting, and our heroes cannot exist in a static universe. Without proper reinterpretation, would our pop icons still be relevant?
11 Sep 2012
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The Not-So-Global Globes: International Tensions in the Film Industry
Now that The Artist gave the Golden Globes a distinctly French flavor, and Meryl Streep fueled the controversy in the British camp, a simultaneous rapprochement and tension defines the relationship between the European and American film industry.
23 Jan 2012
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Super Spots or Big Blunders
A lot of production, distribution, and marketing companies spent a lot of time and a lot of money to air ads for movies that are six months away. Which ones will make them a lot of money instead of costing exactly that?
08 Feb 2011
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Flashbacks of a Fool
Let’s blame it on his lack of experience but Walsh presents a movie completely vacuous and uncaptivating.
Camille Gervais
18 Jan 2009
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OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008
There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!
14 Jan 2009
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Hughes Oughta Know
The British Library bought Ted Hughes' literary archive, further inspiring film and literary speculation into his life with Sylvia Plath.
02 Dec 2008
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Cut to the Whatever
Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace slices away nearly every element of the old Bond, and leaves nothing in its place.
20 Nov 2008
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Quantum of Solace
Bond (Daniel Craig) seems done in by the notion that M is indeed his maternal superior, and so he must please her, or at least pretend that he's playing by rules that he and she and all the rest of us know he disrespects from jump.
13 Nov 2008
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Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008
Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.
11 Sep 2008
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Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008
Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.
10 Sep 2008
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
An acid-tongued humor, playing towards a number of stuffy British stereotypes.
Amaya Rivera
22 Jul 2008
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The Golden Compass
Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.
12 May 2008
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The Golden Compass
Too bland and disjointed to match up with either set up expectations, The Golden Compass is too familiar to be beguiling, too interested in appeasing masses and selling the Corgi toy line.
06 Dec 2007
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The Invasion
With 2007’s oft-delayed The Invasion, there is simply no more symbolic juice left.
18 Aug 2007
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The Invasion (2007)
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (who made the impressive Downfall), the film goes from sharp paranoid thriller to noisy action flick.
16 Aug 2007
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Monkey Business (Part 4: August)
In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.
03 May 2007
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Casino Royale (2006)
Casino Royale feels sleek, lean, shorn of fat, lithely running freely along that relentless but perilous path from point A to point B in classic parkourfashion.
Jake Meaney
12 Apr 2007
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Casino Royale (2006)
The new Bond understands loss, but focuses on revenge instead of grief. He's a hard body in a hard new world.
16 Nov 2006
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Infamous (2006)
When Truman quite gleefully describes his plan to use 'fictional techniques' to tell his nonfiction story, to shape the Clutter murders as an emblem of cultural malaise, Nelle insists on a knowable distinction between fact and fiction.
12 Oct 2006
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Renaissance (2006)
Illusion is frequently the threat in noir (the dark alley hides a killer, the femme is fatale), but the SF angle in Renaissance tweaks the possibilities.
28 Sep 2006
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Munich (2005)
Munich is about the shifting meaning the city's name took on after that dire moment in 1972, the shorthand it became for survivors, historians, and avengers.
Cynthia Fuchs
22 Dec 2005
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Layer Cake (2004)
Daniel Craig ensures that you see XXXX's mind wheels turning as he confronts each new impasse.
Cynthia Fuchs
03 Oct 2005
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Layer Cake (2004)
The hero of Layer Cake has no name. This matters less than you might think.
Cynthia Fuchs
27 May 2005
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Enduring Love (2004)
Samantha Morton's face seems a perfect object for gazing on.
Cynthia Fuchs
10 Nov 2004
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The Mother (2003)
May's new sense of self and awakened sexuality are startling, not least of all to her.
Cynthia Fuchs
23 Jun 2004
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Road to Perdition (2002)
The perfectly grim surface evokes eons of pain, as well as a highly stylized contemporary sensibility, not so much cynical as skeptical and self-aware.
Cynthia Fuchs
11 Jul 2002
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