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Reel Rumbles #39: ‘Paul’ vs. ‘Fanboys’
20, Oct 2011
by Nigel Druitt
A (not so) long time ago, in a galaxy (not so) far, far away…
Episode XXXIX
It is a period of intergalactically-themed humor. A group of friends, striking at George Lucas‘s fortified base, have launched an attempt to steal a copy of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace before its 1999 release date.
Meanwhile, two British nerds, fresh from attending their first ComicCon, attempt to help a drug-addled alien with the voice of Seth Rogen escape our planet.
They are loving and raucous odes to science fiction fandom, locked in deadly combat. Two films will enter, one will leave. Even now, the first bell rings, and the epic battle of Paul vs. Fanboys is under way… Read the rest of this entry »
- In: Reel Rumbles
- Tags: 1999, Bill Hader, Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Fanboys, George Lucas, Greg Mottola, hot fuzz, Jason Bateman, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Kristen Wiig, Kyle Newman, nick frost, Paul, Sam Huntington, Seth Rogen, Shaun of the Dead, She's Out of my League, Sigourney Weaver, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Superbad, Tropic Thunder, William Shatner
The Under-Ranked: Paul
18, Mar 2011
by Ross Bonaime
This weekend, one of Britain’s greatest comedy duos come together once again for Paul, about two comic book loving nerds who happen upon an alien that they befriend. Paul brings Simon Pegg and Nick Frost back together again after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, to both costar and write. Paul features a cavalcade of some of today’s best comedic actors. But before you see Paul this weekend, you might want to check out some of their under-ranked films.
- In: Under-Ranked
- Tags: Adventureland, Anna Faris, Apatow, Bill Hader, David Schwimmer, Eastbound & Down, Edgar Wright, Greg Motolla, hot fuzz, Jesse Eisenberg, Jody Hill, Knocked Up, Kristen Stewart, Kristin Wiig, Love Actually, Martin Starr, Michael Ian Black, nick frost, Observe and Report, Paul, Philip Seymour Hoffman, pirate radio, Richard Curtis, Run Fatboy Run, Ryan Reynolds, Seth Rogen, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Superbad, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Boat That Rocked, The Foot Fist Way
In Search of Best Picture
17, Feb 2011by Nigel Druitt
As the Oscar telecast creeps up on us again, it begs the question: How many times has the Academy really gotten this “Best Picture” thing right, anyway?
Think about it. How many controversial decisions are there in the Academy’s history? How many times is a movie other than Best Picture long remembered as the best of the year?
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- Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 127 Hours, 1941, 1977, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 28 Days Later, 3:10 to Yuma, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, A Serious Man, academy awards, adaptation, Alfonso Cuarón, American Beauty, An Education, Ang Lee, annie hall, Atonement, Avatar, Babel, Batman Begins, Best Picture, Big Fish, Black Swan, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Casablanca, Catch Me If You Can, Chicago, Children of Men, Chocolat, Christopher Nolan, Citizen Kane, City of God, Clint Eastwood, Crash, Crouching Tiger, District 9, Donnie Darko, Eastern Promises, Erin Brockovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Fight Club, film, films, Finding Nemo, Flickchart, Forrest Gump, Frost/Nixon, George Lucas, gladiator, Gone Baby Gone, Good Night and Good Luck, Gosford Park, Guillermo Del Toro, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, heath ledger, Hidden Dragon, hot fuzz, How Green Was My Valley, How to Train Your Dragon, Howl's Moving Castle, In Bruges, In the Bedroom, Inception, Inglourious Basterds, Iron Man, Juno, Kick-Ass, Kill Bill, Let The Right One In, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Luc Besson, Martin Scorsese, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Memento, Michael Clayton, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, Moon, moulin rouge, movies, Munich, Mystic River, No Country For Old Men, Oldboy, Orson Welles, Oscar, Pan's Labyrinth, Peter Jackson, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Pulp Fiction, Reese Witherspoon, Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, Russell Crowe, Sandra Bullock, Saving Private Ryan, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Seabiscuit, Sean Penn, Serenity, Shakespeare in Love, Shutter Island, Sin City, Slumdog Millionaire, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Soderbergh, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Aviator, The Blind Side, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Fighter, The Hours, The Hurt Locker, The Kids are All Right, The King's Speech, The Lives of Others, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, The Pianist, The Professional, The Queen, The Reader, The Shawshank Redemption, The Social Network, The Town, The Wrestler, There Will Be Blood, Tim Burton, Toy Story 3, Traffic, True Grit, Up, Up in the Air, Walk the Line, WALL-E, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, William Hurt, Winter's Bone, Woody Allen, Zodiac
New Video Releases for the Week of April 13, 2010
13, Apr 2010
by Dan
We picked a pretty lousy two week stretch to open this column with. Last week’s biggest release did $1.7 million at the US box office and this week’s hit $8 million. By all accounts Bad Lieutenant and Pirate Radio (aka The Boat That Rocked) are good movies, they just aren’t that sexy to kick a column off with (well, aside from stars Eva Mendes and January Jones).
So, here are this week’s new DVD, Blu-ray, and Netflix Instant Watch titles. Each film will include their Flickchart global statistics (when available), as well as three direct links to rank the title against similar movies (one good, one average and one bad) to help nail down where the movie belongs on your chart.
- In: New Releases
- Tags: apollo 13, chris tucker, cliff robertson, Coen Brothers, Daniel Day-Lewis, defendor, dick van dyke, earth girls are easy, eric bana, eva mendes, fitzwilly, frantic, gemma arterton, Harrison Ford, henry fonda, hot fuzz, jackie chan, january jones, jay leno, Jim Carrey, kevin spacey, Lance Henriksen, love the beast, michael clarke duncan, Moon, nick frost, pirate radio, ronald reagan, rush hour 2, Sam Rockwell, sean connery, slammin salmon, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, the best man, the great mouse detective, the man who wasnt there, the offence, the unbearable lightness of being, Timothy Dalton, Tom Hanks, vincent price, Woody Harrelson