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Avatar Racist? They're Aliens, Not Black

Donna Britt sees Cameron flick as an 'indictment of intolerance'

(Newser) - For all those who crow that Avatar is racist, a simple fact “bears repeating,” Donna Britt writes. “The Na'vi are aliens. Not black.” Far from being racist, the “movie is an indictment of intolerance,” intended to “portray the ugliness of technologically advanced cultures...

Hollywood's Forgotten How to Tell a Story

Today's top films pale in comparison to earlier ones

(Newser) - Today's movies just ain't what they used to be, writes Stephen Farber. Sure, digital wizardry can be breathtaking, but the old-fashioned art of storytelling has waned. Farber compares 10 of this year's high-profile movies with similar ones from the past. "Even when these new movies are adapted from highbrow...

Avatar Creating Bottleneck at 3D Screens

It's still selling well, and Disney's 'Alice' is coming soon

(Newser) - The success of Avatar is creating a first-of-its-kind problem in movie land: a potential bottleneck of films for 3D screens. The problem will come to a head March 5, when Disney releases Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Imax theaters and other operators of 3D screens agreed long ago to show...

Thank Inflation for Avatar 's Box Office Record
 Thank Inflation for 
 Avatar's Box Office Record 
burning questions
Jan 25, 2010 3:59 PM CST

Thank Inflation for Avatar's Box Office Record

Gone with the Wind may trump Cameron's epic

(Newser) - Avatar will soon gross $1.85 billion worldwide, but becoming the box office champ doesn't mean it's the most successful movie of all time. Remember, a ticket to Gone with the Wind cost an average of only 23¢—45 times less than an Avatar ticket. This list ranks films...

Give Brendan Fraser a Round of Applause
 Give Brendan Fraser 
 a Round of Applause 
viral video
Jan 25, 2010 3:38 PM CST

Give Brendan Fraser a Round of Applause

Actor's Golden Globes reactions + Gwen Stefani song = Genius

(Newser) - Brendan Fraser seems to have a good sense of humor about the world watching an endless loop of his awkward laughing and clapping at the Golden Globes, which is good—it will probably spin out into increasingly involved viral video mashups. Here's one, flagged by Videogum , that sets Fraser's spasmodic...

Mel Gibson to Make Viking Film&mdash; in Norse

 Mel Gibson 
 to Make 
 Viking Film— 
 in Norse 
first jesus, now leif
Jan 20, 2010 8:30 AM CST

Mel Gibson to Make Viking Film— in Norse

Will star Leonardo DiCaprio, be scripted in Old English, too

(Newser) - Mel Gibson, the linguist, lives on: The actor/director/boozer/octodad plans to make a blockbuster about Viking raids on England and Scotland in the 9th century, scripted in Old English and Norse. The as-yet-untitled flick will star Leonardo DiCaprio and, like Gibson's other epics, will be unflinchingly violent. "I want a...

Streep, Bullock, Hangover, Avatar Clean Up

Jeff Bridges, Mo'Nique, 'Mad Men,' 'Glee' also among winners

(Newser) - Avatar and The Hangover captured the top film awards, Meryl Streep and Drew Barrymore charmed with stream-of-consciousness acceptance speeches, and host Ricky Gervais generally behaved at tonight's Golden Globes ceremony. Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock established themselves as Academy Award favorites with victories in the leading dramatic role categories, as...

10 Ways the Golden Globes Beat the Oscars

Food, drink, and fashion flubs start awards season off right

(Newser) - Awards season unofficially begins with tonight's Golden Globes ceremony, an alcohol-addled free-for-all that makes the Oscar telecast feel like a prayer meeting. Breeanna Hare of CNN runs down 10 reasons the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's shindig beats the Academy Awards:
  • Booze: "The Globes would not be the Globes if
...

Famous Movie Misquotations
 Famous Movie 
 Misquotations 
Jan 16, 2010 4:11 PM CST

Famous Movie Misquotations

'Play it again, Sam' and 'Greed is good' aren't quite right

(Newser) - Fred Shapiro rounds up famous quotations from movies that for one reason or another—compression, clarity, cadence, to name a few—are altered in our collective memory. A sampling from the On Language column in the New York Times Sunday magazine:
  • "Greed is good." (Wall Street). Orginal: "
...

Mirren, Plumber Dazzle as Tolstoy and the Mrs.
 Mirren, Plumber Dazzle 
 as Tolstoy and the Mrs. 
Movie Review: the last station
Jan 15, 2010 11:18 AM CST

Mirren, Plumber Dazzle as Tolstoy and the Mrs.

Biopic The Last Station is 'lusty, roaring' tour-de-force

(Newser) - Critics are hopping aboard at The Last Station, a lively drama about Leo Tolstoy's final days starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren. Here’s what they’re saying:
  • “The arrival of a movie with as much intelligence and artistry as The Last Station should also be accompanied by the
...

Outdated Movie Clich&eacute;s That Just Won't Die
 Outdated 
 Movie Clichés 
 That Just Won't Die 
MY PHONE DOESN'T WORK!
Jan 12, 2010 11:43 AM CST

Outdated Movie Clichés That Just Won't Die

The answering machine, the broken cell phone, the lack of GPS...

(Newser) - Ever notice that movie trailers are constantly employing the record scratch sound effect—even though today’s youth have no clue what that sound actually is? "Pop culture has shown no inclination to discard obsolete tropes simply because they are obsolete," writes Adam Sternbergh, who points out five...

New Wave Filmmaker Eric Rohmer Dead at 89

Pioneering Frenchman directed 50+ films

(Newser) - Eric Rohmer, a leading light of the French New Wave and a prolific filmmaker for over 4 decades, died today in Paris. He was 89. Overshadowed early in his career by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, Rohmer made his mark with his "Six Moral Tales," released from...

Wonderful World ? No, Terrible
 Wonderful World? No, Terrible 
Movie Review
Jan 8, 2010 2:39 PM CST

Wonderful World? No, Terrible

Broderick mopes about in sentimental, cliched dramedy

(Newser) - Critics are not sold on Wonderful World, a creaky indie starring Matthew Broderick as a misanthropic children’s folksinger. Here’s what the critics are saying:
  • World is “a checklist-indie that offers up clichés with gusto,” even flirting with Magical Negro stereotypes, writes Nick Schager of Slant
...

Gabourey Sidibe: 'I Feel Like a Model'

Precious star talks self-confidence, and her hatred of yoga

(Newser) - Now that Precious has catapulted Gabourey Sidibe to fame, the former psychology major from Harlem finds herself wearing fancy dresses, attending premieres and parties, and doing photo shoots—and she loves it all. Highlights from her Harper’s Bazaar interview:
  • On photo shoots: “I feel like a model. It
...

Youth In Revolt Funny, Familiar
 Youth In Revolt Funny, Familiar 
Movie Review
Jan 8, 2010 10:15 AM CST

Youth In Revolt Funny, Familiar

If you're not sick of Michael Cera, you'll probably like it

(Newser) - Youth in Revolt was shot in early 2008, which, Ty Burr of the Boston Globe notes, was “before some of us started getting tired of watching Michael Cera play Michael Cera.” If you aren’t tired of Cera’s adorably dorky shtick, you’ll find Youth a sharp...

Lessons From the Decade's Movies

 Lessons 
 From the 
 Decade's 
 Movies 
Richard Corliss
Jan 5, 2010 2:06 PM CST

Lessons From the Decade's Movies

Superheroes and big budgets ruled the aughts

(Newser) - Movies look a lot different in 2010 than they did in 2000. Richard Corliss of Time looks back at what we learned from a decade at the multiplex:
  • Superheroes Are Serious: Light comic book movies have given way to the dark, layered stuff of graphic novels. “Superhero movies are
...

Avatar Rakes In $1B
 Avatar Rakes In $1B 
Jan 4, 2010 4:43 AM CST

Avatar Rakes In $1B

Cutting-edge film passes milestone in 17 days

(Newser) - Cutting-edge techie-dream movie Avatar has netted $1 billion in ticket sales in record time as holiday film goers spent another weekend packing theaters. Avatar raked in $63.8 million over the New Year's weekend to boost it over the billion-dollar milestone in just 17 days. Sherlock Holmes, Alvin and the ...

Sarah Jessica Parker, Fire Your Agent
 Sarah Jessica Parker, 
 Fire Your Agent 
unsolicited advice
Jan 2, 2010 5:21 AM CST

Sarah Jessica Parker, Fire Your Agent

Bad choices put 'Sex and the City' star's career at risk

(Newser) - Not that she asked, but Mike Harvkey has some advice for Sarah Jessica Parker: Stop listening to your agent, and start paying attention to Jennifer Aniston. Since her groundbreaking HBO show went off the air, Parker has made decisions so catastrophic they make him "wonder if Parker reads the...

Bullock Rules 2009 Box Office
 Bullock Rules 2009 Box Office 
star power
Jan 1, 2010 10:20 AM CST

Bullock Rules 2009 Box Office

Cinema owners say actress was the biggest draw of the year

(Newser) - Cinema owners love Sandra Bullock, even if critics don't always agree. The owners named Bullock the Hollywood star with the most drawing power in 2009, thanks to her roles in The Proposal, The Blind Side, and even the widely panned All About Steve. The annual survey isn't based strictly on...

Top Conservative Flicks of the '00s
 Top Conservative 
 Flicks of the '00s 
decade in review
Jan 1, 2010 5:31 AM CST

Top Conservative Flicks of the '00s

Even Hollywood can make movies for the non-'lily-livered:' Nile Gardiner

(Newser) - "Hollywood may well be a bastion of liberalism, but it does continue to occasionally produce major films that advance conservative principles," Nile Gardiner writes in the Telegraph . His best of the aughts:
  1. Master and Commander, 2003: The Peter Weir flick starring Russell Crowe is "an epic tale
...

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