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A year ago I suggested that there should be an academy award for best credit sequence (as well as best trailer). The NY Times today goes a step further and suggests nominees for best credits. It turns out, I’ve seen four of their five nominees. I like all of them, but I would have to [...]

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Oscar nominations were announced today. I think there should be awards for best film credits, and for best film trailer. Certainly they are creative endeavors worthy of recognition. And they are short enough that more people can see lots of them, and have an opinion. I can imagine, for example, the studios posting their credits [...]

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For Memorial Day weekend the SciFi Channel had a Godzilla marathon. I loved Godzilla as a kid, and I wondered if Son was old enough to appreciate the giant lizard. So I tentatively TiVo’d something called “Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.” I vaguely remembered a movie in which Godzilla defended Tokyo [...]

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After reading some of the highest praise I’ve ever read from my favorite film critic Matt Zoller Seitz, I decided to go out and see the film “The New World.” I was amazed, impressed, deeply moved. I’m not quite sure if I agree with Seitz that it is the defining film of our generation, but [...]

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OK, you probably don’t care, but there are few films I’ve awaited in the past few years with the anticipation of Kill Bill (vol.1). Despite being unemployed and desperately poor, we hired a sitter and caught opening night at our local megaplex, for about the price of a pair of Broadway tickets (OK, the price [...]

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