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Blog Entries by Marshall Fine from 01/2009

Bashir's Ari Folman: 'They need to establish a Palestine'

| Posted 01.05.2009

Ari Folman, looking both exhausted and still a little amazed, sits back in a hotel room chair and spreads his arms in a shrug. "I think I would not b...

Jack Bauer returns: I hate myself for loving 24

| Posted 01.08.2009

The son of a friend, a bright young man in his mid-20s, complained to my wife recently about the morally reprehensible nature of the show 24, which re...

I Love Bollywood - and Chandni Chowk

| Posted 01.16.2009

At the rate of 1,000 films a year - double the output of the American film industry - India's Bollywood has established itself as the world's richest ...

Live from Sundance

| Posted 01.18.2009

Ahh, Saturday, here in Park City, I think it was the Fourth of .... OK, enough with the clever 70s Chicago references (particularly because that ban...

Oscar Noms: They Wuz Robbed!

| Posted 01.22.2009

Yes, Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei received acting nominations. But The Wrestler -- one of the fiercest, most moving, most resourceful independent entries of the year -- was shut out in the major categories.

A Hilariously Tasteless Birth of a Notion

| Posted 01.27.2009

Without films like Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? we wouldn't have had the Farrelly brothers, the Judd Apatow machine or a lot of other comedy that's fairly commonplace today.

Movie Review: New in Town

| Posted 01.28.2009

If Frank Capra were to make a movie today, it would probably look a lot like New in Town. Of course, Frank Capra is dead. Then again, so is this movie.

Oscar-dissing Dark Knight: Get over it!

| Posted 01.31.2009

Let me put this is as simply as possible: The Dark Knight was not a great movie. It was only half a good movie.