[Now Showing]
'Twas not so brillig
By now you know that Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is not the dark, psychedelic masterpiece we all expected. At this point, the critical masses have spoken, faulting our generation's spookiest director for dropping the ball on fully utilizing 3-D effects, continuing to wrench Johnny Depp for every drop of oddball mannerism he can muster and continuing to rely on Helena Bonham Carter to look wild-eyed and emaciated. But here's a few items Dig HQ cannot let go unnoticed.
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SPECIAL EDITION
HAYAO MIYAZAKI
DISNEY PRESENTS STUDIO GHIBLI
3.2.10
[Movies]
What to watch for ... through your cupped fingers
Oscar opened up his Best Picture 2010 category to 10 nominees not to extend the broadcast into April, nor to accommodate animated films, but because 2010 was an atrocious year for commercial movies.
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If a tree falls in the forest, will someone make a documentary about it?
As the era of documentaries atrophies, the reflexive nature of medium is starting to fray.
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DOLPH LUNDGREN
SONY PICTURES
2.2.10
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Craggy, creepy, criminal and crazy
Martin Scorsese has returned with a dark bag of new tricks and his muse, Leonardo DiCaprio (aka Saint Leo, patron saint of hardened cops with Boston accents and broken hearts).
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GERARD BUTLER, MICHAEL C. HALL
LIONSGATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
1.19.10
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HOWARD ZINN
A&E HOME VIDEO
2.9.10
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DE LA SOUL, GEORGE CLINTON
INDIEPIX
1.26.10
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... Well, besides Richard Nixon, anyway
There's a movie within The Most Dangerous Man in America.