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Time once again for my annual act of self-flagellation: predicting the Oscar winners.
If you're playing along at home, here are my predictions...
From time-to-time, I receive e-mail requests about where to find the Top 100, so I thought this was as good a time as any to create a special page devoted to the list, which I originally generated in late 2001 and posted over 100 weeks during 2002 ...
Once, in seemingly another lifetime, the name "Clint Eastwood" was synonymous with Spaghetti Westerns and the Man With No Name. In the '70s and '80s, he was Dirty Harry, the tough cop with a quotable one-liner for seemingly any situation. More re...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-08-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels, ...
The Boxtrolls represents the best animated movie to reach theater screens since The Lego Movie exploded on the scene in February. A British-flavored, 3-D stop motion affair, The Boxtrolls channels more than a little Monty Python in telling its Tarz...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-09-26
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi
Cast: (voices) Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, ...
The usual function of the "revenge flick" is to allow the viewer to vicariously experience the brutal pleasure of executing that "dish best served cold." It's a basic case of good versus evil, with the former striking back against the latter. The...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveeen Andrews, ...
When you’re a kid, you have your favorite toys. You play with them regularly and rigorously until, eventually and inevitably, you grow tired of them and move on. Then, if they’re good toys, someone else will pick them up and use them. Same...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Action
Director: Travis Knight
Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, ...
Cadillac Records, while not a "musical" in the traditional sense, is close to 50% musical content and 50% drama. Accordingly, it's about 50% good and 50% bad. The re-creations of some of the most noteworthy blues and early rock tunes from the '50...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-12-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Darnell Martin
Cast: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union, ...