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By Austin Lugar »
Sep 2, 2010 »
Category:Commentary » 1 Comment »
The Great Ziegfeld won Best Picture this year beating out some great films and some boring ones.
Tags: A Tale of Two Cities, academy awards, And the Nominees Are, And the Nominees Were, Anthony Adverse, best picture, comedy, Commentary, Dodsworth, drama, Libeled Lady, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, musical, oscars, podcast, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Ziegfeld, The Parent Trap, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Three Smart Girls
By Austin Lugar »
Sep 2, 2010 »
Category:Lead Commentary » No Comments »
Not many directors have the range to write/direct Sin City AND The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl.
Tags: action, author, Commentary, Desperado, director, El Mariachi, family films, From Dusk Til Dawn, graphic novel, Grindhouse, Jessica Alba, Machete, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Planet Terror, Rebel Without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez, schlock vault, Shorts, Sin City, Spy Kids, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl, The Faculty, violent
By Austin Lugar »
Aug 24, 2010 »
Category:Lead Commentary » 4 comments
And why don’t they have better roles? I’M BLAMING YOU AGAIN HOLLYWOOD.
Tags: 300, Baltimore, Boardwalk Empire, Brothers and Sisters, Centurion, Commentary, David Simon, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, fringe, Gone Baby Gone, Happiness, HBO, Life During Wartime, lost, Obsessed, police, Punisher: War Zone, Step Up 2 the Streets, Takers, Television, The Losers, The Office, The Wire, Thor, Treme, war on drugs
By Austin Lugar »
Aug 19, 2010 »
Category:Lead Commentary » 3 comments
The Scott Pilgrim books and movie are unique and inventive, but don’t let them be overwhelming.
Tags: action, adaptation, Brian Lee O'Malley, Canada, comedy, comic books, Commentary, graphic novels, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, shaun of the dead, Spaced
By Austin Lugar »
Aug 12, 2010 »
Category:Commentary » No Comments »
Every time a white woman takes a holiday she finds love. Unless you’re doing it wrong.
Tags: Adam Scott, amy adams, an education, audrey hepburn, bill murray, cameron diaz, carey mulligan, Commentary, david lean, Diane Lane, eat pray love, England, Europe, France, Greece, gregory peck, holiday, Italy, Javier Bardem, julia roberts, Katherine Hepburn, Kathleen Turner, Kristen Bell, Leap Year, lost in translation, Matthew Goode, michael douglas, Morocco, Paris, Roman Holiday, Romancing the Stone, Rome, ryan murphy, Scarlett Johansson, Sex and the City 2, Shirley Valentine, Summertime, The Holiday, travel, Tuscany, vacation, When In Rome, White Women Take a Holiday
By Austin Lugar »
Aug 4, 2010 »
Category:Commentary » 3 comments
Another long set of nominees, but there were more winners this time including Captain Blood and Top Hat.
Tags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alice Adams, And the Nominees Are, Arrowsmith, Broadway Melody of 1936, captain blood, comedy, Commentary, David Copperfield, Les Miserables, musical, mutiny on the bounty, Naughty Marietta, oscars, podcast, Ruggles of Red Gap, The Informer, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Top Hat
By Austin Lugar »
Jul 30, 2010 »
Category:Commentary » 4 comments
Austin and Sam discuss the popular DVD line and its impact on cinema.
Tags: A Christmas Tale, A Woman in a Woman, Alphaville, armageddon, Black Narcissus, Breathless, Che, Clean Shaven, Commentary, Contempt, Das Boot, Dazed and Confused, dvd, Everlasting Moments, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hard Eight, IFC, Knife in the Water, Le Samourai, Made in U.S.A., Manhunter, Naked Lunch, Pierrot Le Fou, Red Rock West, Rushmore, Secret Honor, Seduced and Abandoned, Summer Hours, Taste of Cherry, The Counterfeiters, The Criterion Collection, the curious case of benjamin button, The Docks of New York, The Double Life of Veronica, The Last Days of Disco, The Magician, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Rock, The Thin Red Line, Wages of Fear, Week End, Winter Light, Withnail and I, Yap Off
By Austin Lugar »
Jul 29, 2010 »
Category:Commentary » 12 comments
Hollywood is convinced we hate subtitles so they quickly remake foreign films. But are some of them good?
Tags: Cloverfield, Commentary, criminal, Dinner For Schmucks, foreign films, Gaston Pauls, In the Mood For Love, Infernal Affairs, kick ass, let me in, Let the Right One In, Nine Queens, Quarantine, REC, remakes, The Departed, The Dinner Game, the road, the secret in their eyes, vampire
By Austin Lugar »
Jul 15, 2010 »
Category:Commentary » 1 Comment »
Is it so much to ask to turn your brain on during a movie?
Tags: Barton Fink, blow-up, Commentary, Inception, intellectually arousing, memento, mystery, puzzle, The Dark Knight, The Fountain, The Prestige
