The Pale Man sez: "Use your eyes -- both of 'em!" The forthcoming "Grindhouse" notwithstanding, the motion picture double bill is a nearly dead art. Marquees have always been plugged with twosomes that just happened to be from the same…
View image "Brick": The third shot of the movie. For 35 years, on and off, critics Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy have annually assembled a montage of memorable impressions from the year's movies in a feature called "Moments Out…
This is a very funny man. A commentary on The Year in Comedy from Judd Apatow, the co-creator of "Freaks and Geeks," "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and... Seth Rogan: It seems like comedy is more popular than ever right now. There…
Roger Ebert's best movie lists from 1967-present
There is none so blind as he who will not see. It's true. Ray Stevens sang it in the hit single "Everything is Beautiful (In Its Own Way)." I have no idea why I just mentioned that. MSN Movies has…
From the opening shot of "Cutter's Way" -- my favorite movie of the 1980s. ... and speaking of critical "best of" movie lists, here's a swell one called "50 Lost Movie Classics," from The Guardian. I might quibble with the…
"'Pan's Labyrinth" is the best movie of 2006. Right? Of course I'm right!" I don't disagree at all with Andy Horbal's list of reservations about annual critics' "Ten Best Lists." Andy (host of the recent, too-marvelous-for-words Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon), sizes…
Fight Flub: America's approach to the fundamentally misconceived "War on Terrorism" thus far... “It’s now fundamentally an information fight. The enemy gets that, and we don’t yet get that, and I think that’s why we’re losing."-- David Kilcullen In "Knowing…
Eddie Murphy and back-up singers in a soul revue from "Dreamgirls." Atlantic, Stax/Volt, Motown... Those are three (four?) of my favorite record labels -- and two of 'em are in the news now. Of course, Bill Condon's film of the…
From Dennis Cozzalio, Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, Glendale, CA: The opening of Joe Dante’s cruelly misjudged and overlooked comedy "The ‘Burbs" begins with a vertiginous and hilarious parody of the God’s-eye view shot. Fade in on the…
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