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The 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2010
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For many people, a new year means a time for new habits, resolutions, and fresh starts. For myself though, it’s always been about one thing and one thing only: 365 days of brand-new films!
And of course, Hollywood being Hollywood, there’s the usual litany of sequels, super-hero spectacle, remakes, and state-of-the-art Hollywood summer craziness filled with all manner of digital monsters and explosions. But there’s also new films from Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and - most intriguing of all - a ballet thriller from Darren Aronofsky. Come on, admit it - you know you got excited when you heard the words “ballet thriller!” All that, and we also see the return of Michael Douglas in his seminal role as Gordon Gecko.
Read on after the jump for my list of the ten films that - for reasons both good and bad - I’m most looking forward to seeing in the new year.
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- John Rico
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Fangoria's Comic Screams Top 10 of 2009
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It's time once more to take a look back at another year in the world of horror in four-colors. With a seemingly endless array of new genre titles hitting the racks of your favorite comic shop each Wednesday, picking can be hard - and this list was no different.
Below the jump you'll find Fangoria's picks for the Top 10 Comics of 2009, along with some notable runners-up. What made the list? Find out below!
Honorable Mentions:
Locke & Key: Head Games (Idw Publishing), The Complete Dracula (Dynamite Entertainment), City Of Dust: A Phillip Krome Story (Radical Publishing), 30 Days Of Night: 30 Days Til Death (Idw Publishing),
10.) Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash: Nightmare Warriors
DC Comics/Wildstorm http://www.dccomics.com/wildstorm/
Dynamite Entertainment http://www.dynamiteentertainment.com/
If there ever was a book tailor-made for the horror fans, this was it. To have Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Ash Williams from the Evil Dead
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2009: The Truffles – The HeyUGuys Awards
30 December 2009 2:32 PM, PST
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With the proliferation of Top Tens and Best Of lists on the internet at this time of year we wanted to try something a little different.
2009 was an important year for the business of cinema; games were changed with the acquiescence of audiences to the notion of 3D, low budgets met with large returns, old franchises spawned reboots and rebakes with varying success, the British film industry remained strong and gave us some bright new stars in our sky.
We asked our writers to come up with an alternative set of awards which would honour those films, directors and actors who made 2009 such an enjoyable year. Strong emotions are rendered in strong language, be warned if words offend.
So, here now, I present to you our awards for 2009 – The Truffles.
Tracy
2009 meant, for me, the respectable return to sci-fi. Star Trek, District 9, Moon and now Avatar showed that sci-fi
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- Jon Lyus
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Discuss: Do You Have A New Year's Movie Tradition?
29 December 2009 4:02 PM, PST
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We've all made it through another holiday, and as the dust settles on Christmas 2009, you've probably watched more than your fair share of holiday movies -- lord knows I have. Now when it comes to Christmas, there is no shortage of flicks extolling the virtues of family and good will towards men, but New Years is a different story. I guess this is because New Year's Eve tends to revolve a little more around an epic hangover to come, rather than lofty ideals like peace on earth. I happen to have a little New Year's movie tradition that might seem odd, but every year I make sure I watch Ridley Scott's, Blade Runner -- which might seem like a strange choice, but trust me, there is a method to my madness.
Growing up, I always remember when my local TV station would air the classic sci-fi flick at the
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- Jessica Barnes
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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
27 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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"La Jetée": The Story of a Man Marked By An Image of His Childhood
27 December 2009 6:19 PM, PST
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"La Jetée belongs to a genre that breeds opportunity for elaborate vision and little thought; the film is responsibly contrary to both assessments," writes Rumsey Taylor at Not Coming to a Theater Near You. "Its strength is its simplification."
"Lasting 29 minutes, shot in black and white and consisting almost entirely of still photographs - imaginatively blended with dissolves, wipes and fades - this is the bare bones of science fiction." Simon Sellars at Ballardian: "It highlights why we are attracted to Sf in the first place: not for bug-eyed aliens or galaxy-hopping spaceships, but for the way in which the form can twist our most cherished versions of reality inside out.... La Jetée's influence is palpable. In a 1966 review for New Worlds magazine, Jg Ballard considered it to be one of the few convincing acts of Sf cinema, while a scene from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner - in
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Crowe Gets The Shaft In "Robin Hood"
25 December 2009 10:27 AM, PST
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Pinewood Studios UK recently wrapped up sequences on director Ridley "Blade Runner" Scott's "Robin Hood", starring Oscar-winning actors Russell "Gladiator" Crowe and Cate "Elizabeth" Blanchett.
"Robin Hood" reunites Crowe and Scott in their fifth collaboration together.
Producers are Brian "A Beautiful Mind" Grazer, Scott and Crowe.
The new feature chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously conerned only with his own self-preservation, starting with his service in the army of 'King Richard' against the French. Upon Richard’s death, 'Robin' travels to 'Nottingham', a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for spirited widow 'Lady Marion' (Blanchett), "...a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest..."
Hoping to earn the hand of Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by their appetite for life.
Together,
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- Michael Stevens
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John’s 10 Biggest Movie Surprises of 2009
24 December 2009 12:56 PM, PST
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I’ll be up front with you: the list you’re about to read wasn’t what I had in store for you. As I sat at my desk and prepared to crank out what would be another top ten list of 2009, I realized that I was utterly ill-equipped to do so. As many great films as I witnessed this year, I missed just as many that I’m sure I’d enjoy: A Serious Man. The Fantastic Mr. Fox. The Hurt Locker. The Brothers Bloom.
I know. Just thinking about it makes me sick. But I saw enough to be confident in saying that 2009 was an extremely good year for movies — from blockbusters to indie pictures, we’ve witnessed some great films and surprising debuts from unique filmmakers.
What follows isn’t a list of the “best” films of 2009, but instead is a list of the most surprising, excellent
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- John Cooper
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If Sherlock Holmes Isn't The World's Greatest Detective, Then Who Is?
23 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST
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Is Sherlock Holmes the greatest detective that's ever lived? It's hard to make such a statement without some serious subjective reasoning (Editor's note: espeically since he's a fictional character and thus, never lived!), but there is at least one objective fact that we can all agree upon — Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective that has a movie coming out this weekend.
The eccentric private eye's fan base is likely to grow following the release of Guy Ritchie's upcoming film, which stars Robert Downey Jr. as the titular detective and Jude Law as his mustachioed sidekick Watson. But even with the man occasionally known as Tony Stark behind Sherlock's pipe, there is a formidable faction of cinematic investigators that Holmes must contend with for the title of fiction's greatest detective.
Here are just a few of the other fine detectives that could give Holmes' deductive skills some stiff competition.
Batman
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- Josh Wigler
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“Robin Hood” Posters
23 December 2009 1:57 PM, PST
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The first two posters for “Robin Hood” directed by Ridley Scott have been revealed.
Robin Hood Poster
The film stars Oscar winners Russell Crowe as Robin Hood and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian, Matthew Macfadyen as the Sheriff of Nottingham, Danny Huston as King Richard, Mark Strong as Sir Godfrey, William Hurt as William Marshall and Scott Grimes as Will Scarlet.
Actors who have previously played Robin Hood on film include Errol Flynn, Sean Connery and Kevin Costner.
British filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Black Rain, G.I. Jane, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster) directed the movie from the script written by Oscar winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Conspiracy Theory, Mystic River, Man on Fire, and Green Zone).
Robin Hood Poster
The film is scheduled to hit theaters on May 14th, 2010.
If you haven’t seen “Robin Hood” trailers check them out here
The photos from the
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‘Sex Ed’ Shows Us Sex Comedy Isn’t Beaten Up Yet
22 December 2009 11:27 AM, PST
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The Sex Comedy genre does not inspire a lot of confidence in me. Probably because those two words don’t sound right together, like “pump nuggets” or “bad sex.” Of course there are exceptions. Some people would argue Revenge of the Nerds belongs to that genre, like the way the Golden Globes nominated It’s Complicated as a comedy even though, from the trailer, it looks like they trapped three great actors inside a horror movie.
Web series Sex Ed is the latest online iteration of the Sex Comedy since Blue Movies. An ensemble cast play eight students all in the same college sex education class. I had no idea colleges offered sex education as part of their curriculum, but then again I got treated for hysterical blindness as a result of excessive masturbation my freshman year at Oral Roberts. (By the way, I understand those jokes now I heard
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- Michael Neal
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10 Must-Own DVDs (and Blu-rays) from the Decade
22 December 2009 6:56 AM, PST
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The ReelzChannel 100 began when we asked Leonard Maltin for his favorite Hidden Gems of the decade. His list led the web team into a general discussion about the best movies of the decade and — after no small amount of debate, arguing, and (we're not proud to say) some petty name-calling — we decided we'd better bring it to an end with a company-wide vote. Then it was just a matter of tallying up the votes and hoping for the best. Lucky for us, ReelzChannel is filled with a staff ranging from movie lovers to movie fanatics. What turned out isn't what you'll find on a critic's best of list — instead it's what movie fans really enjoyed.
In day two of the ReelzChannel 100, we highlight the 10 best DVDs and Blu-rays from the past decade.
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Watchmen | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep ?"
20 December 2009 5:54 AM, PST
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'Deckard' has a task ahead of him. 'Retire' six escaped 'Nexus-6' androids'...
From the book that inspired director Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner", comes the Boom! Studios comic book adaptation, based on author Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?"
Boom! Studios is presenting the complete novel 'transplanted' into the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with actual text from the book in a 24-issue 'maxi-series' illustrated by Steven Dupre.
"...San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep... even humans.
'Rick Deckard' is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids, machines from the Tyrell Corporation, that look,
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Finals Week: 'Monstrous Feminism and the Avenging Amazon'
18 December 2009 7:34 PM, PST
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Monstrous Feminism and the Avenging Amazon By Paula Graham
On the whole, feminists and lesbians tend to treat the figure of the Amazon as a positive trope for lesbianism and/or feminism. On the one hand, she has the 'masculine' characteristics of strength, physicality and activity and, on the other, she is female-oriented. Her combination of male and female characteristics apparently undermines the exclusivity of gender categories. Her 'chastity' combined with her 'phallic' physicality has obvious lesbian implications. She is perceived by many lesbians and feminists as both 'positive' and 'subversive'...
Representations of the Amazon or female warrior in patriarchal culture, however, may acknowledge a perceived 'threat' of female aggression and seek to neutralise it. Narratives of female militancy tend to enjoy a resurgence in Western patriarchal cultures precisely at historical moments in which there has been an exceptional opening out of gender categories under pressure of social change and political contestation.
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Remembering the late, great Dan O'Bannon
18 December 2009 8:28 AM, PST
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This unassuming, multitalented film-maker, who has died aged 63, was best known as the brain behind Alien. But he was so much more
Yesterday, following a short battle with an undisclosed illness, Dan O'Bannon sadly passed away aged 63. While his name should be vaguely familiar to cinemagoers as the writer and creator of Alien, to fans of genre films it should be tattooed somewhere on their person. O'Bannon was part of the fabric of genre films, a fixture. Though his star never rose above a certain elevation, in his own unassuming fashion he was a game-changer in more ways than Avatar will ever manage.
I've always had as much an interest in the nuts-and-bolts technical and artistic side of the movie-making process as in the finished films themselves. In the 1980s I wasn't alone: there were plenty of magazines, such as Cinefantastique, Fantastic Films and Starburst that were full of interviews with behind-the-camera workers.
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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Dan O.Bannon, 63, Passes Away
17 December 2009 9:55 PM, PST
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Dan O’Bannon, science fiction screenwriter and director, passed away on December 17, 2009 in Los Angeles. He was best known for his work in the science-fiction and horror genres, with hits that included Alien, Total Recall, and The Return of the Living Dead.
O’Bannon made his first splash in 1974 with Dark Star, which expanded a low-budget, 45-minute short co-written with fellow USC student John Carpenter. Although the film had sci-fi trappings, such as a space ship and cryogenic freezing technology, Dark Star was essentially a quirky, black-hearted comedy about the ship’s misfit crew members. The movie became a cult hit; and not only did O’Bannon work on the screenplay, but he had an acting role as a character named Sgt. Pinback.
A few years later, after working on special computer animation and graphic displays for a little feature called Star Wars, O’Bannon wrote the script for Alien,
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Homeslice: 584k Building Permits Issued in November, Best Month in a Year
16 December 2009 2:47 PM, PST
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Good news on the ground-breaking front: more new homes were begun in November than at any point over the previous 12 months. New housing projects were up 8.9% last month, with fresh building permits nationally hitting 584, 000, the most reported in one month since November of 2008 when 551, 000 permits landed on the books. The bulk of the new buildings will be single-family homes, for which 482, 000 new projects were begun in November.
Housing officials noted three main factors contributing to the up tick in brick laying: Federal tax credits, cheaper market prices and low interest rates. (Oh, and the weather may have helped, too. The National Climate Data Center--what, don't pretend you've never heard of it--said that this past November was the third hottest in the 115 years that records have been kept.)
With all this in mind, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce today that they will keep borrowing rates down well into 2010, hoping
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Guts of Google's Nexus One Smartphone Spill, Blade Runner Estate Takes Note
16 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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Since news broke of Google's own Android-powered smartphone, the Nexus One, the Net's gone wild for the phone. Some enterprising fellows have even taken apart a leaked Rom and worked out what's inside it: Good stuff, that's what.
The Rom hackers concerned are the guys at TheseAreTheDroids, and they took it upon themselves to sift through the data in a leaked Android 2.1 Rom from a Nexus One. Hidden in the code is all the necessary info to work out what powers the beast--and what they found is interesting.
There's the usual accelerometers, proximity and ambient light sensors that are now de rigeur in touchscreen smartphones thanks to the iPhone, a magnetic compass, references to the autofocus camera with Led flash, Bluetooth, and dual-mic noise canceling chips. Then there are four neat facts that seem to support rumors of the very best pieces of hardware in the phone: OpenGL Es 2.0 graphics support,
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