The Great Ganesha

I will watch this just to hear this sound:
In the seventeenth chapter of “The Voyage of the Beagle,” Charles Darwin turned to the mating habits of the giant Galápagos tortoise. “When the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or bellowing, which, it is said, can be heard at the distance [...]

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In an interview with the cast and filmmakers of the upcoming Coen Brothers’ film, No Country For Old Men, Javier Bardem (and the Coens) talk about how his hair came to look the way it was in the movie.
Lisa Schwarzbaum (Moderator): I think there are two things that dominate this film – [...]

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[Originally on Blogcritics]

Milos Forman’s (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) latest movie can be divided into two halves: The first half being intellectual masturbation for the anti-war groups; and the second half, a historical melodrama. Putting the two together results in a political soap opera which is as intellectually compelling (and just as easy [...]

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Slate.com’s Jessica Winter dissects how Pacino, unlike his peers (Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson), became better at playing the role of the “Famous Person” than what he did to become famous.
Pacino increasingly sought out big, shouty parts and then inflated them past their already outsized proportions: He out-Sataned Satan in The Devil’s Advocate (1997), [...]

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The trailer for the Coen Brothers’ new film No Country for Old Men is out. And, to put it mildly, it does not disappoint.

From the trailer, it looks like they are back with a bang and are bringing on all the blood, noir, edginess, and “edge-of-the-seat”-iness from their Blood Simple days. After Ladykillers, I think [...]

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A certain A. Lane from the New Yorker has brutally and frankly broken it down for all of us and showed us the six functions of Jolie, Inc.
Ms. Jolie is now more of a brand than a person, and she comes in six flavors:
1. The celebrity.
2. The sexpot.
3. The Brad handler.
4. The mother.
5. The world [...]

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After reading my review of 13 (Tzameti) (originally written for Thirsty magazine), a reader sent me an email to let me know about a MySpace blog dedicated to the movie. On that blog was this YouTube video that parodied the movie. It’s called Beer Hunter. Interesting…

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[Originally on Blogcritics and Desicritics]

I just saw The Departed. A few months late and a few dollars short (thanks to Netflix) but it was on purpose, because I wanted to watch Infernal Affairs first. I’m glad I waited. It?s unfortunate that Martin Scorsese has resorted to making big budget blockbusters in the last few [...]

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Mira Nair’s The Namesake follows the life of Ashoke Ganguli (played superbly by Irrfan Khan) as he goes to the US to get a Ph.D., and returns to look for a wife in Calcutta. He finds Ashima (portrayed excellently by Tabu), they have an arranged marriage, replete with all the colors and exotica of [...]

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We are all voyeurs. Why else do we watch movies? Sure, there’s the escapism, the pleasure of being moved emotionally and the satisfaction of knowing that sometimes, the good guys do win. But at the bottom of it all, we like to see how others live their lives. We enjoy the act of watching [...]

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