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The Flickcast Presents: Best Films Of 2009
10 hours ago | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Rather than tell you what I think I should, I decided to come clean on this list. For instance, I am aware that A Serious Man might technically and artistically be a cut above some of these, but I just didn’t enjoy it as much. I’ll also preface this by saying since I was covering most of the main-stream movies this year, there were a lot of independent movies I didn’t see, so they may not appear on the list. The film title links to a review when applicable.
Up In The Air – Buoyed by a trio of fantastic actors, I found this movie to be utterly charming. Directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking, Juno), the movie is touching, prescient, original, and funny. Vera Farmiga, George Clooney and Anna Kendrick all received Golden Globe acting nominations. George Clooney’s depiction of a traveling man who »
- Shannon Hood
He Said – He Said … Top Films of the Decade
28 December 2009 4:18 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
He Said – He Said … The Top 7 Films of the Decade
Our lists are done. We’ve checked them twice (and then some). Now there is only one thing left to do, complain, rant and argue. It’s time for the He Said – He Said … Top 7 Films of the Decade.
It’s He (Jeff Bayer) and his list …
6. Moulin Rouge!
4. Memento
3. Wall-e
2. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
1. Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Versus
He (Nick Allen) and his list …
7. The Band’s Visit
6. Superbad
4. Adaptation
2. Talk to Her
Complete Coverage of Top 7 Films of the Decade
Top 7 Films of the Decade by Jeff Bayer
Top 7 Movies of the Decade by Nick Allen
He Said – He Said … Top 7 Films of the Decade
Amazing. Not one movie in common. I’ve decided to let »
- Jeff Bayer
It’s Complicated
26 December 2009 3:06 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
It’s fair to say that rom-coms aren’t generally my thing. I’ve seen my share of them, and on the whole, I’m never usually impressed. In my experience, they are usually overly romantic and lack “actual” comedy. Writer/director Nancy Meyers has made a very successful career out of the rom-com genre. Films such as What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give and The Holiday have all been lucrative. Her films are sweet and non-offensive. She is so successful at what she does that major stars all want a piece of the action. Jack Nicholson, Mel Gibson, Jude Law and Kate Winslet among others have jumped on the Nancy Meyers bandwagon. So as the old saying goes: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
With her latest film she has brought together the always brilliant Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin in a film »
- Alex Wagner
Collider Watches the Inglorious Basterds Take Over the New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood
25 December 2009 1:39 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Last week, members of the cast and crew from Inglorious Basterds stormed the red carpet at the New Beverly Cinema to celebrate the release of their film on DVD/Blu-ray. Though just a DVD premiere, spotlights shone into the night, flashbulbs flashed, and pens scribbled on notepads. There were a few surprises - the arrival of stunt-woman extraordinaire and Tarantino alum Zoe Bell, for instance. Or the lovely Diane Krueger (Nina Von Hammersmark) arriving with a dapperly dressed Joshua Jackson on her arm.
But for the most part, the focus of the evening was the cast and crew of the critically acclaimed World War II opus. Among them, most of the titular Basterds, including: Sam Levine, Eli Roth, Omar Doom, B.J. Novak, producer Lawrence Bender and, of course, the biggest “basterd” of them all - Quentin Tarantino.
Collider grabbed a few words with some of the cast before enjoying an evening of disemboweled, »
- Jonathan Callan
Bazmann’s Christmas Address
25 December 2009 7:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
It’s been a great year for the British film industry. It kicked off with the British invasion of the Oscars, with notable wins for Kate Winslet, and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. The huge amount of British Actors plying their trade successfully in Hollywood continued to grow, with Scot Gerard Butler particularly in demand with parts in Gamer, The Ugly Truth and Law Abiding Citizen.
British filmmakers have been responsible for some of the more interesting films this year. Duncan Jone’s Moon was a brilliant yet under appreciated sci-fi drama. Fish Tank and Harry Brown lead the way for low budget drama. Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus finally found a distributor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince became the highest grossing British movie of all time.
British film festivals Raindance and the BFI London Film Festival saw record attendances, and showcased some great films from home, »
- Barry Steele
The Best of the Decade: 2000-2009
23 December 2009 9:56 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
A best of the decade list is an incredible thing to consider. The Aughts were ripe with imagination and originality. The past ten years also came jam packed with many new visionary directors that changed the cinematic landscape forever. Yet, at the same time, it was also a decade wrought with remakes, rip-offs, ten-year late sequels, and films based on preexisting toy properties, comic books, and amusement park rides. George Lucas offended almost everyone by dusting off his Star Wars mythos and adding copious amounts of CGI to it. And Batman, a caped figure in tights who last flourished in the trippy sixties, managed to crawl head and shoulders above the rest at the box office to be crowned king. Thus proving that the so-called "geek" or "fanboy" truly ruled the silver screen over the course of this tumultuous past decade. Today, we look at the ten films that ruled »
Boos! & Whoop-doos!: 12 Months of Toilet Plunkers and Dumpster Diamonds!
23 December 2009 9:55 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The End of 2009? Whoop-doo! This year has been one hellatious shit storm from the get-go. Pregnant ladies and babies, The Great Depression Part II, pig flu, more than a handful of horrible shootings, a balloon boy, Tiger's indiscretions, and our first black president. Not to mention more dead celebrities than I can shake a stick at. Every time I turned around, some other atrocious calamity was happening right before my eyes. Making 2009 one of the most interesting years of this entire decade. According to Michael Ruppert in his film Collapse its only going to get worse before it gets better. Yes, the Teens are going to see more than half of your friends and family dead. Take account of the folks around you. By the time 2020 rears its ugly head, most of these people will be gone. Turned to dust and painful memories. My advice to you this coming New Year? »
TV's Best of the Decade: No. 10 - 'Freaks and Geeks'
22 December 2009 1:52 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Someday soon, a wiseacre graduate student is going to write a mighty clever dissertation focusing on a strange facet of popular entertainment in the Aughts. The title of that dissertation is going to be something along the lines of "'Virgin' Territory: How Judd Apatow Went From TV Failure to Movie King Without Changing a Thing." The thesis of the dissertation will be that in a two-year period between 1999 and 2001, Judd Apatow executive produced two superb TV shows, arguably (as I have done) two of the best shows of the entire decade. But neither "Freaks and Geeks" nor »
- Daniel Fienberg
Best Of Decade
22 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
To try to recall your favorite films from an entire decade (and then to limit them to only ten titles) is to immediately set yourself up for uncertainty and ridicule: first off because it's hard enough to remember what you saw ten days ago, much less ten years ago, and secondly because to limit the list to ten is to leave hundreds of excellent films out, titles that you'll undoubtedly get bludgeoned to death with through later feedback (“You blithering idiot~pretentious snob~Hollywood tool! How could you leave out Judd Apatow~Jean-Luc Godard~Abbas Kiarostami~McG,” read the heated responses to already posted lists). To create a list of a “the best” of a year (or a decade) is to confront what makes a person “love” a film in general: »
- Jason Sanders
New Images from Your Highness, The Adjustment Bureau, Repo Men, and Get Him To The Greek
21 December 2009 1:52 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Along with their great news about the release date for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Playlist also landed some new (albeit tiny) images for David Gordon Green’s Your Highness starring Danny McBride, James Franco, and Natalie Portman; George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt; Repo Men starring Liev Schreiber, Jude Law, and Forest Whitaker; and Nicholas Stoller’s Get Him to the Greek starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill. You can also see tiny images for some other films but those are the biggies because they’re on the top row and there’s no way you can argue with how those images were placed. My logic is bulletproof.
The Playlist also has a couple of slightly larger images from The Adjustment Bureau and Greek and you can check them both out after the jump.
For those just tuning in, here’s the »
- Matt Goldberg
10 Movie Events That Shaped the Decade (For Movie Fans)
21 December 2009 10:29 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We’ve come to the end of 2009, so we thought we’d weigh in with a look back at the first 10 years of the 21st century in the movie world and discuss the various different “events” which shaped the decade. Obviously we can’t cover absolutely everything, but sticking true to our core movie genres on the site, we’re just going to concentrate on the comic-book, sci-fi, action (and so forth) types of movies and take a look at what films had the maximum impact over this decade.
It’s amazing to think that it’s been 10 years since movies like The Matrix, American Beauty and Fight Club (to name but a few) came out in 1999 (check out our 1999 decade highlight, if you haven’t already). A Lot of movies – somewhere in the vicinity of 5,000-6,000 – have been released since then. We’ve had the good, the bad and »
- Ross Miller
Meatball Guys Hop Over to 21 Jump Street
21 December 2009 9:33 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directors of the animated “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, is currently in negotiations with Columbia Pictures to helm the live-action “21 Jump Street” movie. Known primarily as the show that launched Johnny Depp’s career, “Jump Street” was about a group of too-young looking cops that were recruited into a secret undercover unit where they went, among other things, undercover in high schools to bust thieves, drug dealers, bad apples, and the like. “21 Jump Street” the movie is currently being guru’ed onto the big screen by Jonah Hill, aka the fat kid from all those Judd Apatow movies, who is writing the script with Mike Bacall and plans to star. Yes, Columbia Pictures, in their infinite wisdom, for some reason thought it was a brilliant idea to hand over the entire franchise to a two-bit Judd Apatow player. I shit you not, folks, this »
- Nix
/Film Editor-In-Chief Peter Sciretta Named One of the Most Influential People in Film
20 December 2009 6:05 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Let's do a mental exercise. Picture the most influential people in movies today. A few directors would probably come to mind: Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Danny Boyle, Michael Bay, David Fincher, Judd Apatow, Jj Abrams, the Coen Bros, etc. It might also occur to you to throw some actors into the mix as well; Matt Damon, George Clooney, Christian Bale, and Will Smith would be just a few of the folks that would make it onto your list. These guys are all heavy-hitters, playing in the big leagues, helping to dictate the direction and the success of Hollywood. Overall, I think you could probably compile a pretty interesting list of 100 people that are influential in the film industry today. In fact, that's exactly what Total Film magazine did recently in their -- hey...Wtf is /Film Editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta doing on here?! A couple weeks ago, The Guardian named /Film »
- David Chen
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Four
19 December 2009 11:50 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: 2010
Cast: Val Kilmer, Andy Garcia, Rupert Friend, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Johnathon Schaech
Director: Renny Harlin
Summary: An American journalist, his cameraman, and a Georgian native get caught in the crossfire of the five-day Russia-Georgia conflict in August 2008, and then have to deal with their obligation to be impartial.
Analysis: A timely parable on war, or Hollywood propaganda filmmaking at its worst? Wherever it goes, especially in Europe and the former Soviet states, "Georgia" will cause a lot of talk and controversy as the incidents depicted are still so fresh in many's minds. Like all topics of the sort, it'll also have its strong supporters and detractors having opinions on the film long before a frame of footage is screened anywhere.
Shot on-location in Tbilisi, the project also marks a potential return to form for Finnish director Renny Harlin. Given the right material the skilled action director delivered three »
- Garth Franklin
DVD Playhouse--December 2009
19 December 2009 3:11 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—December 2009
By
Public Enemies (Universal) Johnny Depp portrays legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger in co- writer/director Michael Mann’s take on America’s first “Public Enemy Number One.” Like many big studio releases today, Public Enemies has it all: A-list talent before and behind the camera, but lacks a heart or soul that allows its audience to connect with it. Film plays out like a “true crime” TV show with re-enactments of famous events cast with top actors and shot by the best technicians in the business, with little, if any, character or story development to hold it together in between. A real disappointment from one of our finest filmmakers and finest actors. The lone standout: the great character actor Stephen Lang as a hard-eyed lawman who’s seen a lot, but manages to retain a tiny piece of his heart. For a better take on the same subject, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Comedy from a common pool
18 December 2009 9:02 AM, PST | Hindustan Times - Cinema | See recent Hindustan Times - Cinema news »
Funny PeopleBig Home Video/Universal, Rs 499 Rating: ** & 1/2 Judd Apatow is the Ram Gopal Varma of Hollywood. He has cracked a formula to churn out three or four films a year. They follow predictable plotlines — all are light-hearted comedies strung on cheap taglines. They employ actors from a common pool — the dope-loving Seth Rogen is part of the furniture. And every now and then, Adam Sandler appears in the role of a misogynist college prankster’s foulmouthed idol. Despite the predictability, this 2008 film redeems itself by turning a cold light on the fiercely competitive lives of »
Directors of the Decade: David Gordon Green
17 December 2009 5:45 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here, continuing my series of the directors that shaped the past 10 years. Our next subject is a director who made his debut this decade and was immediately compared to Terrence Malick. Some have suggested that he’s faltered recently and maybe they’re right but his early films are such a high point in modern indie cinema he more than qualifies as one of the best directors of this decade. I’m talking about: David Gordon Green.
Number of Films: Five
Modern Masterpieces: George Washington.
Total Disasters: None, though a few mixed efforts.
Better than you remember: Undertow, while flawed is still a worthwhile endeavor, better than the reaction it's been given.
Awards: Some Spirit Award noms, but not much else. Not enough.
Box Office: 89 mil for Pineapple Express, the expected winner.
Critical Consensus: George Washington was his best received film. All downhill from there.
Favorite Actor: Paul Schnieder »
- Robert
'The Hangover' Arrives On Home Video To Golden Globe Noms And An Increasingly Busy Cast
15 December 2009 12:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Before "The Hangover" became one of the biggest success stories of 2009, it was just a Warner Bros. comedy starring that guy who cheats from "He's Just Not That Into You," the dude from "The Office," and some short, fat guy with a beard.
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis weren't putting all their eggs in one basket, because I'm fairly certain none of them expected "The Hangover" to gross over $459 million in the worldwide box office. In fact, the stars of "The Hangover" have been some of the busiest guys around Hollywood over the past year. Here's a look at what else they've been up to since "The Hangover" hit theaters in June -- beyond, of course, preparing for 2011's "The Hangover 2."
Though Bradley Cooper surprised audiences and critics with his comedic chops in "The Hangover," he chose not to return to the bro-comedy formula. Cooper's »
- Terri Schwartz
Quentin Tarantino Picks His Top 8 Films of 2009
14 December 2009 4:30 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Quentin Tarantino recently did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter and he told them his favorite films of 2009. But he did his list with an asterisk, as he admitted to not having seen Avatar, Invictus, or The Lovely Bones. As of right now, his top eight films are:
1. Star Trek (Jj Abrams)
2. Drag Me To Hell (Sam Raimi)
3. Funny People (Judd Apatow)
4. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
5. Chocolate (Prachya Pinkaew)
6. Observe and Report (Jody Hill)
7. Precious (Lee Daniels)
8. An Education (Lone Scherfig)
If you’d like to watch him say his list and explain how things might change, hit the jump:
Of course when anyone makes a best of the year list, you will always wonder why certain great films never made the cut. Quickly looking over his top eight, you immediately wonder where is Pixar’s Up. But, at the same time, how many are going to say »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Quentin Tarantino’s Top 8 Movies of 2009
14 December 2009 3:34 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The Hollywood Reporter had a chance to ask Quentin Tarantino about his favorite films of 2009, and the filmmaker responded with the following eight movies... 1. Jj Abrams' Star Trek 2. Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell 3. Judd Apatow's Funny People 4. Jason Reitman's Up in the Air 5. Prachya Pinkaew's Chocolate 6. Jody Hill's Observe and Report 7. Lee Daniels' Precious 8. Lone Scherfig's An Education Tarantino admitted that he has yet to see James Cameron's Avatar, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones or Clint Eastwood's Invictus, and that he needs to revisit films like Bright Star and District 9, as they might have the power to rise into his top 8. He also agreed that his film could not qualify for his list. Watch the video embedded below: I'm surprised at some of the movies that Tarantino left off of his list, including Pixar's Up, 500 Days of Summer, »
- Peter Sciretta
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