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The 20 Coolest Movie Cars of the Aughties
17 December 2009 10:16 AM, PST
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Demi Moore exits a Ferrari Enzo in 2003's Charlie's Angels II: Full Throttle.
The Aughties (ugh) were an incredible decade for film—if you like superheroes and comic books, romances based on 19th Century fiction, the apocalypse, brah-com, or fragmented narratives of disparate people crashing into each other. Personally, I hate most of this shit. But if you’re into the kind of stellar goodbad films that I admire, and you happen to like cars, you’re in luck, because what we have here is a gorgeous slide show of the best vehicles in the bestworst movies of the 2000s. Brett Berk writes Stick Shift, Vf.com's gay car blog. Visit him at brettberk.com 2000 Bring it On, Jeep Grand Wagoneer. The decade got kicked off right with this genius cheerleading movie, a proto-Glee that features a rag-tag bunch of losers united in a love of choreography and personal harmony.
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Wes Anderson's next script The Rosenthaler Suite gets reviewed
16 November 2009 11:48 AM, PST
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Wes Anderson is like the Sex Pistols for me in that I may not listen to their stuff that much anymore, but it would be pretty dumb to downplay their importance to the evolution of popular music history. So like the Sex Pistols, I'll always have a soft spot for Anderson's work no matter how my tastes shift.
This is probably why after reading an interesting mini-review of Anderson's latest screenplay, The Rosenthaler Suite, which is an adaptation of Patrice Leconte's 2006 French film, Mon Meilleur Ami ("My Best Friend"), over at The Playlist, I thought I'd help bring it to everyone's attention.
The word on the script is mostly good, though the reviewer admits Anderson's obsession with wardrobe and style minutia "can be stifling," and that the first half of the script feels a lot like his Darjeeling Limited era. He suggests handing it over to someone like Roman
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Whip It! | Review
2 October 2009 9:59 PM, PDT
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Director: Drew Barrymore
Writer(s): Barry Mendel, Drew Barrymore
Starring: Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern
Bliss (Ellen Page) is a misfit – at least as far as rural Texas standards are concerned – high schooler. Bliss’ mother (Marcia Gay Harden) wants Bliss to be a beauty pageant queen, just like she was; but when Bliss shows up at a beauty pageant with blue hair, we all know that Bliss doesn’t share her mother’s aspirations. One day, Bliss’ mother takes Bliss to Austin to do some shopping. She reluctantly agrees to buy Bliss a pair of combat boots, until she notices that the boutique also sells bongs. Bliss buys the combat boots with her own cash, and picks up a flyer on the way out…the flyer is for a female roller derby exposition match in Austin.
Bliss drags her
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- Don Simpson
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Paper Heart | Review
12 August 2009 6:45 AM, PDT
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Director: Nicholas Jasenovec
Writer(s): Nicholas Jasenovec, Charlyne Yi
Starring: Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera
Comedian and actress Charlyne Yi (Charlyne Yi) is a skeptic – heck, she is a downright curmudgeon – when it comes to love; however, she is curious enough about all the hype that she decides to embark upon a quest to find out more about love.Charlyne joins forces with director and friend Nicholas Jasenovec (Jake Johnson) and his documentary crew, as they journey across the United States interviewing people of all ages, ethnicities and spiritual backgrounds about their experiences with love.
We know from the get-go that Charlyne will not be easily convinced, even if love were to walk right up and slap her across the face – and this right here is where MichaelCera (Michael Cera) comes in. Charlyne meets Michael at a party and their friendship slowly simmers into a romantic relationship throughout the course of Charlyne’s documentary.
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- Don Simpson
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Tetro Review
8 June 2009 10:33 AM, PDT
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“What has happened to our family? We were so promising!”
So ponders one elder member of the artistic clan at the center of Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro –– and so, one imagines, the film’s detractors will be eager to snark about the director and his filmmaking progeny. Ffc is oft-mocked for having whored himself out to studios in the 90s, only to squander the generosity of an indie arm with his pretentious “return to personal filmmaking,” 2007’s Youth Without Youth. As for the younger Coppola generation, Roman went from making highly-cinematic music videos to directing the promising mod homage Cq, but has since apparently done little but shoot second until for his dad, sister and Wes Anderson. After winning an Oscar for the beyond-slight Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola made a personal gesture of her own with the masterfully stylish Marie Antoinette — which s
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- Karina Longworth
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Cq - Movie Review
17 May 2009 5:53 PM, PDT
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Cq (meant to be sounded out – ‘Seek You’) is a morse code ‘term’ like ‘Sos’ (meant to be sounded out – ‘Help!’), which is roughly the equivalent of a person with a Cb saying, ‘Anybody got yer ears on?’ Basically, Cq is the first thing you say when transmitting in morse code, in order to see if anyone is on the other end, and, in order to ask the question, ‘Is anyone listening to me?’
Though the movie only makes a cursory connection to its title, in the grander scheme (that of being Roman Coppola making your first movie) it’s a title that gives you a little wink.
Cq is the story of Paul (Jeremy Davies). Paul, living in Paris circa 1969, is a film editor working on the upcoming cheesy, sci-fi, monstrosity Codename: Dragonfly. He is also working on his ‘personal movie’ while at home, and is thus constantly filming
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Cannes 2009 Day 2: Some Unfinished Business in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
14 May 2009
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- Day 2 began with the 10:00 a.m. opening film for the Director's Fortnight screening of Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro. With this being one of the rare penned projects from Coppola. Playing with the notion of unrealized potential, unfinished business and certainly draws upon Coppola's own family dynamic (his father was musically inclined and it becomes apparent that the son considered him a genius), Tetro could have passed off better as a shortened stage piece. In a linear timeline, the flashes of color in this B&W film act as reminders Vincent Gallo's character Angelo/Tetro's guarded past, actor Alden Ehrenreich who is still wet behind the ears, plays his younger estranged brother prying open his older brother's nest for answers and clues. Unfortunately, the Argentinean-Italian community backdrop serves as very little and Carmen Maura's short presence only reminds us of the lack of "grip" that
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