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Update: What a dry Oscars show! I know they had to scramble (I think they just had 7 days to prepare) but it was a low-key show for an audience of 1 billion. I think Jon Stewart did a great job at hosting this year although I think he couldn't help himself putting in those jokes about politics. Highlights: Marion Cotillard winning Best Actress and Tilda Swinton for ...

The Internet hype surrounding the release of Cloverfield wasn't as ubiquitous nor as annoying as Snakes on the Plane. But there is the hype with the teaser trailer strategically placed with the Transformers movie, various faux websites and endless speculation first with the title and then the monster. Was it another Godzilla movie? The American remake of the Korean monster-movie Host? The marketers of Cloverfield however perhaps informed ...

Idiotic dads notwithstanding, Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd was an enjoyable movie-going experience. I've heard of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical but movies are a different art form altogether. Broadway plays transitioning to movies are spotty at best and a horror/musical may be, uhm, a stab in the dark but Burton actually pulls it off.

Loosely based on Richard Matheson's novel, I Am Legend stars Will Smith as Robert Neville, a military scientist looking for the cure to an airborne virus which has decimated 90% of the world's population. Yes it's Will Smith trying to save the world again. And if you have watched his world-saving adventures in the past, I Am Legend pretty much goes the same way although with prettier graphics ...

I'm late coming to appreciate the Coen Brother's films. Sure I loved Fargo & Oh Brother Where Art Thou? but it took me awhile and some patience to just strap down and watch their other movies. Raising Arizona? Couldn't stand it because of Nicholas Cage. The Big Lebowski? I had to watch it on three different occasions. My point being, going into No Country for Old Men, I ...

Let me get this out of the way: I have never seen Robert Zemeckis' other mo-cap movie Polar Express. That said, I didn't get the "dead eyes" feeling from watching Beowulf. The novelty of watching this in 3-D made it a positive experience for us. The story is a well-known one - writers Neil Gaiman & Roger Avary taking a few liberties here & there to make a ...

And so it comes to an end. Last season's juggernaut of a series comes to a schreeching halt due to the Writer's Guild strike which left many a shows in a lurch. Heroes is not invulnerable after all. Even series creator Tim Kring had to apologize for the lackluster sophomore attempt -- an acknowledgement that they fumbled the stories and lost their first season momentum. Last night's title, ...