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Thanksgiving, movies, and reasons to be grateful
9 hours ago
The gratitude lists emailed among friends and families this Thanksgiving are lovely and thoughtful, expressing heartfelt appreciation for food, shelter, health, friends, family, babies' smiles, rainbows, Mom's lasagna, all that good stuff. The only problem is, when mentioned in the same breath as Mom and rainbows, offering thanks for the genius of Netflix looks pretty puny. But not here: Here's where movie lovers can offer up movie love in the spirit of the holiday. I'll go first: 1. Thanks to great American actors whose appearances invigorate every movie they're in. My choice trio: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Jeffrey Wright, »
- Lisa Schwarzbaum
'New Moon': Why its girl-driven success is good for the future of movies
26 November 2009 7:28 AM, PST
Offhand, it would be hard to think of a pop phenomenon as rapturously beloved as the Twilight saga that is also as vociferously hated. My God, the hate! If swoony-gauzy teen-bloodsucker romanticism with a golden-eyed indie-rock James Dean as love object isn't your cup of passion, then fine -- so be it. But why the frothing torrents of resentment? I was seriously shocked, for instance, reading some of the comments on Lisa's recent post, to see that this much stone-pelting hostility could be directed at an actress as lovely and expressive as Kristen Stewart. What is her crime? Having a »
- Owen Gleiberman
How to rule at the box office? Go global! Everybody's doing it
24 November 2009 2:55 PM, PST
In case you haven't noticed, it's getting a little harder to keep track of who's ahead (or, at least, by how much) at the box office these days. That's because certain movies are now competing on two different playing fields at once: the domestic box office…and the worldwide box office. In truth, this isn't an entirely new phenomenon. American movies have been opening around the globe, and making a reasonably good percentage of their profits that way, for just about as long as they’ve existed. What is new is how much of the total tally is starting to »
- Owen Gleiberman
'New Moon,' 'Twilight,' Bella Swan, and me
23 November 2009 4:08 PM, PST
As many commenters have pointed out in posts both gentle and not so, my review of The Twilight Saga: New Moon is a mild one. Those who were frustrated were hungry for a sharper declaration, pro or con. Those who didn't like my meh opinion -- I think the movie is...okay - thought I was being too easy because, oh, I don't know, there must be some EW-wide agreement to publish only fluffy things about Twilight! Twilight! Twilight! until everyone is sick to (un)death about the phenomenon. So with the opening weekend hoopla over, I want to confess »
- Lisa Schwarzbaum
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