Does it matter who criticizes movies? How about Kevin Smith's plan of simply handing out free tickets to the public and seeing what they think? What do you think?
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While you may think I have said my last on the subject of 3D in cinema be sure there is lots more to come, but as a final word on Avatar allow me to explain using only scientific methodology, precisely how those amazing effects were achieved.
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In a career that has enjoyed such variety as attending to Arnold Schwarzenegger's pregnancy in Junior, portraying "The Angel America" in the HBO version of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, and breaking hearts in Love Actually, Emma Thompson, it seems to me, has never disappointed. Lately she had become famous to a new generation both as star and writer of the movie Nanny McPhee and I for one am rather delighted there's a sequel on the way...
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What is it that truly makes a great Richard Gere performance? In the week of the release of Hachi: A Dog's Tale, (or indeed Hachiko: A Dog's Story as it is variously known) I draw on key texts such as Looking for Mr Goodbar, An Officer and a Gentleman, and American Gigolo to offer what I believe is the definitive formula for top Gere.
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Whatever awaits us after we die can be no more rewarding than your angelic responses to my recent blog about what happens after we die at the movies...
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Is Avatar secretly a monochrome silent movie (preferably viewed in two dimensions)? Were the greatest lessons of cinema learned and mastered even before the advent of sound? Do these rules apply to contemporary cinema and does anyone pay any attention anyway? Well, you all do it seems because yet again the Kermode Uncut commentating community is raising the level of online movie debate...
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On the morning after Hollywood's biggest night here's my take on Oscar 2010's most magical moments. And Ben Stiller.
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It's not been a great year for the moon. First Barack Obama cancels all foreseeable moon shots and this Sunday night Duncan Jones's feature debut Moon, doesn't even get a shot at an Academy Award. I offer my most sincere consolations to all lovers of the lunar in a space-time-honoured musical form. Thank you Stylophone. Thank you David Bowie.
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The Dodge Brothers are accompanying a movie again, this time starring silent movie era goddess Louise Brooks. Nothing could be better: Music, movies and just the right
number of dimensions. You think Avatar would work as a silent movie? Actually...
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Kermode Uncut:Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark is the UK's leading film critic.
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