Tag: Slumdog Millionaire
Favorite movie of the decade….
The following is a list compiled by DailyHelping that will remind you of the movies you may have seen over the past ten years. Included are foreign and documentary films that were well received here in the United States. As we work our way toward finding our favorite film of the decade…(and maybe 2nd and [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2009 under movies, website.
Tags: 21 Grams, 25th Hour, A History of Violence, A Mighty Wind, A Serious Man, About A Boy, About Schmidt, Adaptation, AI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Almost Famous, AMELIE, American Psycho, American Splendor, An Inconvenient Truth, Anvil-The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Best in Show, BLACK HAWK DOWN, Born into Brothels, Bowling for Columbine, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Capturing the Friedmans, Casino Royale, Castaway, Catch Me if You Can, Chicken Run, Children of Men, Chocolat, Cinderella Man, Cold Mountain, Crash, Crouching Tiger, District 9, Diving Bell and the Butterfly, DONNIE DARKO, Doubt, Dreamgirls, Eastern Promises, Elf, Erin Brockovich, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Finding Nemo, Finding Neverland, For Your Consideration, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Funny People, GHOST WORLD, Gladiator, Gone Baby Gone, GOSFORD PARK, Grizzly Man, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hidden Dragon, High Fidelity, Hotel Rwanda, Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Inland Empire, Ironman, Juno, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kinsey, Letters from Iwo Jima/Flags of Our Fathers, Little Miss Sunshine, Lord of the Rings- Return of the King, LORD OF THE RINGS-FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, Lost in Translation, Lovely Bones, Man on Wire, March of the Penguins, MEMENTO, Michael Clayton, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, Millions, Minority Report, MONSTERS INC., Moon, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, Munich, Murderball, Mystic River, Napolean Dynamite, Nine, No Country For Old Men, OCEANS 11, Once, Pan's Labyrinth, Paranormal, Persepolis, Pollack, Precious, Quills, Rachel Getting Married, Ratatouille, Ray, Road to Perdition, Seabiscuit, SEXY BEAST, Shaun of the Dead, SHREK, Sideways, Slumdog Millionaire, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Star Trek, Sugar, Superbad, Sweeney Todd, Synedoche New York, Syriana, The, The 40-Year Old Virgin, The Bourne Identity, The Contender, The Counterfeiters, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Fog of War, The Host, The Hours, The Incredibles, The Lives of Others, The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Namesake, The Patriot, The Pianist, The Queen, The Reader, The Road, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Squid and the Whale, The Station Agent, The Visitor, The Watchmen, The Wrestler, There Will Be Blood, Traffic, TRAINING DAY, U571, Unbreakable, United 93, Up, Up In the Air, Wall-E, Wonder Boys, X-Men, Zodiac
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Sacred Games
The the film, “Slumdog Millionaire” has brought world-wide attention to India and the city of Mumbai. 12 million people and their squalid living conditions were suddenly put on the world’s radar. A common criticism of the film by those familiar with Mumbai are the f ilm’s flashy bright colors and adept editing turned squalor of [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2009 under books.
Tags: Bollywood, Disneyland, Entertainment Tonite, Extra, Mumbai, Sacred Games, Slumdog Millionaire, Vikram Chandra
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Oscar Picks
1. Best Picture: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Reader,” “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Will win: Slumdog Millionaire Should win: Slumdog Millionaire.
2. Actor: Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”; Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”; Sean Penn, “Milk”; Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”; Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler.”
Will win: Mickey Rourke Should win: Mickey Rourke
Posted: February 20th, 2009 under movies, music.
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Bolt, Brad Pitt, Bruce Springsteen, Changeling, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Doubt, Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Happy-Go-Lucky, Heath Ledger, In Bruges, John Patrick Shanley, Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, Kung Fu Panda, Marisa Tomei, Meryl Streep, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Penelope Cruz, Peter Gabriel, Richard Jenkins, Sean Penn, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, The Wrestler, Wall-E, Waltz With Bashir
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The Oscar Nominations
The Academy Award Nominations were announced early this morning. There were some minor surprises among those nominated and those that weren’t, but all in all it should be a pretty interesting award show.
Here are some of the major categories and a few of my thoughts on who might win.
BEST PICTURE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
FROST/NIXON
MILK
THE [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2009 under books, comedy, magazine, movies, radio, television.
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Danny Boyle, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, Frost/Nixon, Gus Van Sant, Heath Ledger, Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marisa Tomei, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Mumbai, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Robert Downey Jr., Sam Mendes, Sean Penn, Six Feet Under, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, The Wrestler, Viola Davis
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I got your Golden Globes right here.
Tonite are the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association needs no help in promoting their star-studded, network televised event. The show is pretty glitzy and the blending of television and film stars generally makes this one of the more popular award shows. Though the judges represent 55 different countries and about 200 foreign entertainment [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2009 under comedy, movies, television.
Tags: Alec Baldwin, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Californication, Colin Farrell, Danny Boyle, Dexter, Entourage, Fox, HBO, House, Hugh Laurie, In Bruges, Javier Bardem, John Hamm, Kate Winslet, Mad Men, Mamma Mia!, Marisa Tomei, Mary-Louise Parker, Meryl Streep, Mickey Rourke, NBC, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Downey Jr., Sally Field, Sean Penn, Showtime, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, The Office, The Sopranos, The Wrestler, Tina Fey, Tom Cruise, Weeds
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Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle’s vibrant Indian adventure has enjoyed such great word of mouth that you have to wonder if it’s getting a bit exaggerated (see Little Miss Sunshine). Sometimes such praise lacks foundation, but in this case it’s hard not to be enthusiastic about a very unique film- going experience.
The movie begins with 18-year-old Jamal (Dev Patel) [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2009 under movies.
Tags: Danny Boyle, Dev Patel, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
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