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14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—November 2009

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Allen Gardner

Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »

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22 May 2009 1:18 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

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Turner Classic Movies' Sean Connery festival continues tonight with Marnie, The Hill and The Russia House. Of the trio, The Hill (10:15 Est) is by far the best. A gritty drama set in a military prison, the 1965 movie offers perhaps the best performance of Connery's career - and represents his first collaboration with director Sidney Lumet. A superb supporting cast makes this one of the most riveting films of the 1960s. Skip The Russia House, which manages the seemingly impossible feat of casting Connery in a big budget spy movie and making it unspeakably dull. It should have been titled Thunderbore.  »

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4 March 2009 10:48 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Kate Winslet finally won her Oscar, delighting the bulk of fans who have been rooting for her since she dreamt of Hollywood in '94 -- 'they're desperately keen to sign me up!' -- or nearly drowned in '97. She never let go. So, who is next?

Or rather... who is most overdue?

Contrary to popular belief, it ain't easy to win an Oscar. It certainly wasn't easy for Kate the Great. You need more than an accent, a disability, a good or popular movie, old age makeup or mimicry skills. You also need star charisma, a role that compliments or complicates that charisma and media support. Above all else you need luck combined with surgically precise good timing. History is full of performers who never won the movie's top prize despite plentiful contributions to the art of acting.

For the following list I'm ignoring outstanding performers who have never »

- NATHANIEL R

3 articles from 2009