You ever wake suddenly in the middle of the night, heart racing and hair matted with cold sweat, ready to pack your bags and leave home forever, until you realize: it was all just a dream? Yes, it was just a d...
I always found that my taste tended to line up quite a bit with Roger Ebert's, particularly when it came to our favorite movies of all time. His list of 10 best ever overlapped with mine in three instances, while othe...
Year: 2008
Nominees: "The Golden Compass," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," "Transformers"
Who won: "The Golden Compass"
Who should have: "Transformers"
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Nominations (6):
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor - Albert Bassermann
Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Best Special Effects
1940 was a...
Perhaps the perfect 21st century villain, Heath Ledger's Joker is less a force of evil than an agent of chaos, delighting in whatever reaction he can elicit from a world numbed by modernity. Visually upsetting, like ...
Well, it had a good run. For half a century, Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" reigned supreme as the default candidate for the Greatest Film of All Time. That, in part, was thanks to its routine dominance of au...
There's a lot of talk about lists lately. Just the other day we chewed on Roger Ebert's inclusion of Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" in his personal top 10 films of all time as part of the 2012 Sight &a...
Here’s one for wealthy and eccentric cinephiles: The Wrap reports that Orson Welles’ solitary Oscar is up for auction.
Let's take a moment to pause and reflect on the fact that what is now considered one ...
With "The Tree of Life" on DVD and Blu-ray and "Martha Marcy May Marlene" opening in limited release on Friday, it seemed a good time to take stock of the best debut performances the cinema has to ...
Hunter McCracken and Elizabeth Olsen (left) give amazing performances in "The Tree of Life" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene" respectively this year. And in each case, it was their first at-bat. We us...
