Supporting actress nominee Rinko Kikuchi (center) plays a deaf girl in "Babel." Here's Roger Ebert's analysis of this morning's Oscar nominations: Oscar is growing more diverse and international by the year. This year's Academy Award nominations, announced Tuesday, contain a…
View image Pan looks into the future. What does he see? I'm thrilled to report that Roger Ebert will be filing his own analysis of this morning's Oscar nominations, too. In the meantime, here's what I got: Last summer, according…
If you have to ask what "Inland Empire" is about, you haven't read the poster. David Lynch returned to the Great Pacific Northwest Wednesday night for two screenings of his three-hour "Inland Empire" (at 7:30 and midnight), bringing with him…
SEATTLE -- David Lynch returned to the Great Pacific Northwest Wednesday night for two screenings of his three-hour "Inland Empire" (at 7:30 and midnight), bringing with him to Seattle a fresh, hot shipment of David Lynch Coffee. That's good coffee!…
In the few sentences that I've posted about Tom Tykwer's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" (just blurbs on my Best of 2006 and Double-Bills lists), I mentioned that the movie was a striking feat of "cine-sthesia," as it were,…
View image I enjoyed our "Contrarian Week" discussions so much (even made it its own category!) that I wanted to open it up even more and ask my fellow movie bloggers to discuss any and all aspects of contrarianism on…
The lyrics to the theme for this year's Golden Globes telecast began (and I'm not making this up): One night only, one night only That's all I have to spare One night only Let's not pretend to care... Um... OK.
This guy's pretty talented. He should go on "American Idol" or something. He could be as famous as Clay Aiken one day.
Clint Eastwood, a Caucasian American, made a movie about Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima in WW II. How "liberal" of him! 2006 was a big year for stories about the "death of movie criticism" -- which were really just bandwagon-jumping…
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