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April Fools! (Toshiba to Sue Everyone Who Didn’t Buy HD DVD)
Toshiba, the chief backer of HD DVD, the loser in the high-def disc format wars, has announced what it calls a “reverse class-action” suit against every household that failed purchase an HD DVD player since the format launched in 2006. The lawsui...
No Country for Old Men (2007)
I’m fixin’ to do something dumber than hell, but I’m going anyways. Ten years ago, movies like this didn’t win Best Picture. They lost to safe, happy movies like Forrest Gump and Shakespeare in Love. By their usual standards, the Academy...
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
The truth, as always, will be far stranger. While he was not a filmmaker or an actor, Arthur C. Clarke’s contribution to film was immeasurable for his role in the making of a single film, that being Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odysse...
The Last Emperor (1987)
All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. Now you think you’re the worst of all! Perhaps the saddest line in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-sweeping epic, comes early when the 9-year-old Emperor Pu Yi (Tijger Tsou) naively t...
Lust, Caution (2007)
Whatever the merits of his various films, you have to admire Ang Lee’s ability not to be pigeonholed as a filmmaker. There aren’t many mainstream filmmakers with as varied a résumé, including comic book movies (Hulk), martial arts (Crouching Ti...
