by Ryland Walker Knight [Spent a lot of last week running around town, and working on a non-cinematic (ahem, paid) writing project, so movies took a necessary back seat. I read instead. And, yeah, with this work and the basketball options in high definition (not to mention a visit to Oracle...

<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X61Y2Q0gWrOM2SuMseTBcYrZc4U/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X61Y2Q0gWrOM2SuMseTBcYrZc4U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X61Y2Q0gWrOM2SuMseTBcYrZc4U/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X61Y2Q0gWrOM2SuMseTBcYrZc4U/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>When Kiriya unleashed Casshern onto the masses he divided the audience like a real pro. Those of you hoping he learned from his first film will do good to lower their expectations before sitting down to watch Goemon. On the other...

Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw in The Blind Side (top); Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (bottom) Starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw as a white affluent couple who "adopt" an overgrown, inner-city black teenager (Quinton Aaron), The Blind Side managed to surpass The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the domestic box-office — Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, bare pecs, and sexual abstinence notwithstanding. Directed by John Lee Hancock, The Blind Side, which cost Alcon Entertainment only $35 million to make, earned another $20.4 million this weekend; its total now stands at $129.3 million. New Moon, for its part, collected $15.7 million; its domestic...

By Matt Maul Of course, I’m stating the obvious when I point out that turning a well-known literary work into a film can be a tricky thing. There’s always a dedicated group of fans that will balk at any changes made to migrate the work from one medium to another. I tend to fall into that category...

Mike Baab leads off today's Links with his Rottin' in Denmark post "Decade Roundup: The 13 Movies That Defined the '00s." As Mike explains:

"I wanted to put together a list of the movies that, in spite of all the upwind incentives, told us something about this decade. I don’t necessarily think these are the best movies of the last 10 year per se, I just think these are the ones we will show our kids when we want to tell them what it felt like to live in the first decade of the new millennium. Not all of them directly take on ‘how we live now’ or whatever. These are just the movies I feel like I’ll look to when I’m sitting in a hovering rocking chair in 50...

Sam Rockwell in Moon Duncan Jones‘ sci-fi thriller Moon — made for US$5 million, or about 1/zillionth of the cost of Star Trek, 2012, or Avatar — won best picture and best debut director honors at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) held this evening in London. Written by Nathan Parker from Jones’ original story (with shades of 2001: A Space Odyssey), Moon tells the story of a man (Sam Rockwell) living with a computer — that’s GERTY — at a manufacturing base on the Moon, where one day he wakes up to discover that he isn’t as alone as he thought. Worse yet, things have never actually been as he thought they were. Jones, by the way, used to go [...]

Carey Mulligan in An Education (top); Tom Hardy in Bronson (bottom) MOON Wins 2009 British Independent Film Award At the British Independent Film Awards, National Board of Review winner Carey Mulligan (above) bagged her second best actress award this awards season — which has just begun. Had Mulligan been eligible for the Gotham Awards, she’d have given The Maid’s Catalina Saavedra a run for her Chilean pesos. (The Gothams are supposed to honor American independent films, that’s why Mulligan’s British-made An Education wasn’t eligible. Chile is in South America, which makes its film productions American. I guess. Except when it comes to the Spirit Awards, which have Sebastián Silva’s...

2009 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009 Washington Film Critics winners: Dec. 6, 2009 UP IN THE AIR, George Clooney, Carey Mulligan Win in Washington ("*" denotes the winner in each category) � George Clooney, Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air � Best Film The Hurt Locker | Summit Entertainment Inglourious Basterds | Weinstein Company Precious | Lionsgate Up | Walt Disney * Up in the Air | Paramount Best Foreign Film Broken Embraces | Sony Picture Classics Red Cliff | Magnet / Magnolia * Sin Nombre | Focus Features Summer Hours | IFC Features The White Ribbon | Sony Picture Classics Best Animated Film Coraline | Focus Features Fantastic Mr. Fox | Fox [...]

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (top); Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard in An Education (middle); Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (bottom) Carey Mulligan, playing a 1960s London teenager eager to lose her virginity with the help of a man more than twice her age (Peter Sarsgaard) in An Education, won her third award today: she was voted best actress by the Washington D.C. Film Critics. Earlier this evening, Mulligan had won a British Independent Film Award and a couple of days ago she was honored by the National Board of Review. Meryl Streep had better watch out. Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, about a tin-hearted downsizing expert...