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It looks like a Soderbergh film but feels like a Coen brothers. movie. The Informant stars Matt Damon as a white collar worker at an agricultural conglomerate who blows the whistle on his company’s price-fixing scheme. It’s a comedy. A dark comedy. And a thriller. Hopefully it’s everything Burn After Reading should have been. The [...]
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The Informant! Trailer
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on July 1st, 2009
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Tags: burn after reading, matt damon, steven soderbergh, the coen brothers, the informant 
No Comments »Final Oscar 2008-2009 Nomination Predictions
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 21st, 2009
Will The Dark Knight get its Best Picture nod? Will Slumdog nab the most nominations? Will Woody Allen spoil the day for another director? Will Kate Winslet get the two nods she deserves? What’s going to happen?! Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EST/5:30 p.m. PST the Academy will announce the Oscar nominees. Anyone who has watched [...]
Posted in Random Tags: academy awards, angelina jolie, anne hathaway, brad pitt, burn after reading, changeling, christopher nolan, clint eastwood, danny boyle, david fincher, dev patel, doubt, frank langella, frost/nixon, frozen river, gran torino, gus van sant, heath ledger, james franco, josh brolin, kate winslet, marisa tomei, melissa leo, meryl streep, mickey rourke, milk, penelope cruz, philip seymour hoffman, rachel getting married, revolutionary road, richard jenkins, robert downey jr., sean penn, slumdog millionaire, taraji p. henson, the curious case of benjamin button, the dark knight, the visitor, the wrestler, tropic thunder, vicky cristina barcelona, viola davis, wall-e, woody allen No Comments »WGA Nominees 2009
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 7th, 2009
And the WGA Nominees are: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen, The Weinstein Company The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy, Overture Films The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel, Fox Searchlight Pictures ADAPTED [...]
HFPA’s Golden Globe Noms announced
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on December 11th, 2008
Is it just me or do the Globes get less and less relevant every year. Tom Cruise’s Tropic Thunder performance gets a Best Supporting Actor nod? Seriously? I’m sorry guys, but your nomination isn’t going to resurrect Cruise’s fading career. And you choose him over John Brolin in Milk. Wow. And what’s with all the [...]
Posted in Random Tags: burn after reading, golden globes, hfpa, in bruges, oscar, tom cruise, tropic thunder No Comments »Quickie: Burn After Reading
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on September 21st, 2008
Burn After Reading (2008)–** Quickie Review A pair of gym trainers find a disk containing the memoirs of an ex-CIA agent and attempt to blackmail the agent for cosmetic surgery money. What could have been another superb Coen Brothers anti-thriller in the vein of Fargo turns into a sad spy farce. The layered characters are [...]
Posted in Quickie Tags: brad pitt, burn after reading, fargo, frances mcdormand, george clooney, john malkovich, the coen brothers, tilda swinton No Comments »September films I’m dying to see
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on September 8th, 2008
It felt like fall today. The air was cooler, leaves were falling, and sky was gray with pockets of blue sky. Sure it may mean that winter is right around the corner, but the changing seasons also mean it’s time to for big people movies. We get our first taste of the bountiful fall harvest [...]
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2008′s Creative Dearth
As someone who fancies himself a bit of a film critic, I try to manage my own expectations despite my genuine love of cinema. (That sound pretentious, but bear with me.) Before this year, I would generally see anything that was thrown in front of me because I would rather watch a bad movie than [...]