A scene from The Hurt Locker.By Hap ErsteinAnd then there were 10.No, not by a process of elimination, but by inflation. I’m talking about the new, probably not improved, look for the Academy Awards, with its revised voting dynamic for best picture. Not only are there 10 nominees for the top Oscar, but members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be ranking … [Read more...]
Movie review: ‘Proposal’ recycles tired genre, and does it badly
Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock in The Proposal.By John ThomasonAs David Spade might have said in his classic “Hollywood Minute” segment on Saturday Night Live, “I liked The Proposal better the first time I saw it -- when it was called Green Card.”The Proposal is one of those “marriage of convenience” stories, which flourished in the screwball zeitgeist of classic Hollywood … [Read more...]