Archives
- 2009.07.01: Happy Independence Day!
- 2009.06.29: "Oh yeah? Well, I criticize you back!"
- 2009.06.25: Michael Jackson, transformer
- 2009.06.24: The toy that does all the playing for/at you
- 2009.06.22: Beware of all jokes requiring punch lines
- 2009.06.22: Must-See Movie of the Week!
- 2009.06.20: Support Your Local Revolution
- 2009.06.17: Bill Maher: Dumb jokes for the TV talk show set
- 2009.06.14: #CNNFail: The revolution is being Tweeted and Facebooked
- 2009.06.10: You don't dismiss the dean
- 2009.06.08: Can a movie ruin a good review?
- 2009.06.03: You make the movie, you sell the movie
- 2009.05.28: Bye bye Miss American Privacy
- 2009.05.27: Back in the saddle again...
- 2009.05.17: And now for a brief furlough...
- 2009.05.14: Can one bad shot ruin an entire movie?
- 2009.05.13: Film Critic Keyboard Cat in the 23½ Century!(Or: "Play 'em off the bridge, KC!")
- 2009.05.13: Forget it, Keyboard Cat. It's Chinatown
- 2009.05.13: Retrofitting Star Trek: The Original Series
- 2009.05.11: Why the Enterprise matters (and the rest is anti-matter)
- 2009.05.11: Can you "out" somebody who isn't "in"?
- 2009.05.05: Hecklers as critics, critics as hecklers and comics as critics
- 2009.05.05: Internet Meme Timeline
- 2009.04.30: Pick your villain
- 2009.04.29: Making up stories
- 2009.04.24: Pretty Woman
- 2009.04.22: Is it rape? Is it funny?
- 2009.04.22: Where does ignorance come from?
- 2009.04.22: Former President Jar Jar
- 2009.04.21: The 411 on 420
- 2009.04.20: The fine art of magical thinking
- 2009.04.16: Reality: What a concept
- 2009.04.15: Make Popcorn Not Tea
- 2009.04.13: Marilyn Chambers, 1952-2009
- 2009.04.13: Wiley Wiggins' Sausage Party
- 2009.04.12: Rehearsing your own prejudices
- 2009.04.12: Easter Sunday thoughts
- 2009.04.04: The Birds is coming
- 2009.04.01: Blu-ray: Higher fidelity to what?
- 2009.04.01: Meshugene Men
- 2009.04.01: Wes Anderson scavenger hunt: Truffaut, Welles, Peanuts...
- 2009.03.30: Take the Wrong One Back
- 2009.03.30: Movie reviews on demand!
- 2009.03.24: The Lonely Critic
- 2009.03.24: World's most Kafkaesque airportno longer located in Dallas-Fort Worth
- 2009.03.17: Opening Shots: The 400 Blows
- 2009.03.10: Looney Watchmen Toons!
- 2009.03.09: What does one trillion dollars look like?
- 2009.03.09: Akzidenz Grotesk
- 2009.03.05: Nite Owl versus the Bat Man
- 2009.03.03: Opening Shots: Watchmen
- 2009.02.26: Opening Shots: Shotgun Stories
- 2009.02.26: Opening Shots: The Dark Knight
- 2009.02.25: Opening Shots: Spider-Man 2
- 2009.02.25: Alan Moore on American comic books& graphic novels: Why so serious?
- 2009.02.25: Apatow's Pineapple Express Oscar short
- 2009.02.22: Wall-E, Mickey Rourke, Dark Knight,Synecdoche NY take the big awards!
- 2009.02.19: The Watchmen dilemma
- 2009.02.19: Odienator's time of the mumf
- 2009.02.16: Hollywood joins Batman, Iron Man topromote Truth, Justice, American Way
- 2009.02.16: George Lucas: Low-Budget Eye-Candy
- 2009.02.11: jim's annotated best favorite movies of 2008 part 2
- 2009.02.11: Intelligent Design: Tried and convicted
- 2009.02.10: jim's annotated best favorite movies of 2008 part 1
- 2009.02.10: Opening Shots: The Producers (1968)
- 2009.02.07: Oscar Gold Diggers of 2009: Follies and Scandals
- 2009.02.07: No right to an opinion
- 2009.02.04: Rescued by M. Night! Four pieces of Unbreakable...
- 2009.02.03: Prof. Cozzalio's take-home pop quiz is due!
- 2009.02.02: Comedy of Doubt
- 2009.02.02: Groundhog Day is here, and here, and here...
- 2009.02.02: Alec Baldwin, "TV star": Mooshy-moosh
- 2009.02.01: What they say and what they mean
- 2009.02.01: Ebert on the meaning of movies and criticism
- 2009.01.29: For Sale: On Revolutionary Road
- 2009.01.29: Flawed
- 2009.01.27: Who (ghost-?) wrote Whose idea was Mall Cop?
- 2009.01.27: The micro and the macro
- 2009.01.25: Moments Out of Time 2008
- 2009.01.23: Spots before your eyes!
- 2009.01.22: Oscars: No comment (almost)
- 2009.01.22: "If you see only one version of Forrest Gump this year..."
- 2009.01.20: Falling: The Architecture of Gravity
- 2009.01.20: Winslet, Ledger: Who's supporting whom?
- 2009.01.20: "Mein Führer, I kann valk!"
- 2009.01.19: Do the Contrarian! It's the White List (again)
- 2009.01.19: Synecdoche, acting and re-enacting
- 2009.01.17: In context
- 2009.01.15: Pineapple Extension: "You guys were in a car chase?!"
- 2009.01.14: A few more revealing angles on the schoolbus getaway
- 2009.01.14: Patrick McGoohan escapes (1928-2009)
- 2009.01.13: On liking and disliking
- 2009.01.13: Shooting down pictures: The case for Film Criticism 2.0
- 2009.01.12: The framing of the Dark Knight
- 2009.01.12: Dark Knight Quiz #1: What's wrong with this picture? (Part 2)
- 2009.01.11: Dark Knight Quiz #1.5: Look at me!
- 2009.01.11: Frost/Nixon/Milk: Get Real
- 2009.01.10: Dark Knight Quiz #1: What's wrong with this picture?
- 2009.01.03: National Society of Film Critics: Waltzing and Happy
- 2009.01.02: jim's ten best favorite movies of 2008: the movie
- 2008.12.31: WALL-E scrunches Love Guru inVillage Voice/LA Weekly crix poll
- 2008.12.30: My 2008 best short-list
- 2008.12.24: Ben Stein: Worst Person of the Year
- 2008.12.23: The Evil, the Bad and the (Self-)Important
- 2008.12.22: The curious coolness of Benjamin Button
- 2008.12.22: 'Rosemary's Baby' remake aborted; God not dead?
- 2008.12.18: Superheroes. Seriously.
- 2008.12.18: 2008 Dogs of the Year
- 2008.12.16: Ben Stein: No argument allowed
- 2008.12.16: A top top 10: 10 critics, 10 best(s) -- and why
- 2008.12.15: "What's bad for GM is good for America!"
- 2008.12.13: Critics better love The Dark Knight -- or else!
- 2008.12.10: Best of 2008: East coast vs. West coast crix
- 2008.12.05: Here it is: Your first 2008 ten-best list
- 2008.12.04: The scary parts (part 1)
- 2008.11.24: Turkey gravy
- 2008.11.20: String of Pearl: The Lady of Altman's "Nashville"
- 2008.11.15: Fellini, Zanussi, Altman, Frances
- 2008.11.10: Blue, red, purple and Colbert: Better maps
- 2008.11.10: Altman's Dangerous Woman Speaks
- 2008.11.08: The real drama of W.
- 2008.11.08: Paul Rudd: Sexiest white man in America
- 2008.11.06: Vacancy: Filled
- 2008.11.05: Palin 2012: The End... or Only The Beginning?
- 2008.11.02: Palin 2012
- 2008.10.30: Dead of (Election) Night: Terrifying tales of campaign narratives run amok!
- 2008.10.30: Finding 'The Fall'
- 2008.10.28: My dog Frances (1999-2008)
- 2008.10.25: Dialogue as music
- 2008.10.24: Film 101: How to make a political ad
- 2008.10.23: Have the ads gotten subtler since 1964?
- 2008.10.23: 'Swing Vote' remake: My bad
- 2008.10.18: Feylin on SNL
- 2008.10.18: Tricky Dick and Wee W.
- 2008.10.17: Fey on Palin on Letterman 10/17/08
- 2008.10.17: "In history we'll all be dead." -- W.
- 2008.10.16: Critics analyze sex & symbolism in uncut HBO debate
- 2008.10.14: Supply, demand, English food, movies and Paul Krugman
- 2008.10.14: Monty Python season
- 2008.10.13: Git yer own Scanners widget
- 2008.10.10: The Tina Fey-Palin scenario
- 2008.10.09: An American Carol: Anybody seen it?
- 2008.10.09: TIFF 2008: Heartbreaker
- 2008.10.08: Nightmare on Wall Street 2: Enron's Revenge
- 2008.10.06: Will "Mean Girl" Palin herself appear on SNL?
- 2008.10.05: Pey or Falin, which is more realer?
- 2008.10.04: From Wasilla to Fargo: Sarah Palin in Rashomon
- 2008.10.04: Capranomics: Banking on Character
- 2008.10.02: Be offended. Be very offended.
- 2008.10.02: Paul Newman x 3
- 2008.10.02: Why movie critics make such darn good political pundits
- 2008.10.02: Apocalypse Now: An audio-visual aid
- 2008.10.01: The dogs are loose! (Part 2)
- 2008.09.29: The lost comedy stylings of Palin & McCain
- 2008.09.28: Sarah Silverman is a genius (still)
- 2008.09.28: Tina Fey is a genius
- 2008.09.26: Screwball Economics (with Preston Sturges)
- 2008.09.22: President Bartlet's advice to Obama
- 2008.09.18: Underdogs: The dogs below the title (Part 1)
- 2008.09.18: Roger Ebert on the critics of criticism
- 2008.09.18: The sins of the critics
- 2008.09.16: "Just look at how far we've come..."
- 2008.09.15: Crash: It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!
- 2008.09.14: David Foster Wallace on David Lynch
- 2008.09.14: David Foster Wallace, 1962 - 2008
- 2008.09.11: TIFF 08: Revolution and starvation, personal and political
- 2008.09.10: TIFF 08: Torontoids: Seen and overheard
- 2008.09.09: TIFF 08: The Divine and the "Religulous"
- 2008.09.08: TIFF 08: The Wrestler: Aronofsky + Rourke = Sweetness
- 2008.09.08: TIFF 08: The buzz and the poop
- 2008.09.07: TIFF 08: Con artistry in Bloom
- 2008.09.06: TIFF 08: The Coens Who Came In From the Cold
- 2008.09.06: TIFF 08: What are you looking at?
- 2008.09.04: TIFF 08: The omnivore's dilemma
- 2008.09.04: I knew I'd seen this movie before!
- 2008.09.03: TIFF 08: The waiting-for-it-to-start post
- 2008.09.03: Juneau
- 2008.09.02: "In a world where..."
- 2008.09.01: Aboot Toronto
- 2008.08.31: When comedy happens
- 2008.08.28: "We want information!" The Arrival of The Prisoner
- 2008.08.26: What's your game, baby? Cinephile or cinemaniac?
- 2008.08.25: Yes, but is it art, too?
- 2008.08.22: Yes, but is it art?
- 2008.08.20: This explains everything
- 2008.08.19: Batman vs. the zeitgeist
- 2008.08.18: Termite booster: Manny Farber 1917-2008
- 2008.08.18: The Telluride Widget!
- 2008.08.15: George Lucas: Give it up
- 2008.08.14: Gone fishin'
- 2008.08.13: The shorter, the longer
- 2008.08.12: The summer of our mega-discontent?
- 2008.08.12: Give me irony or give me offense!
- 2008.08.11: The Tropic Thunder publicity stunt boycott
- 2008.08.08: Rogen. Franco. Pineapple. Tarantino. Ninjas.
- 2008.08.07: Stories without endings
- 2008.08.06: Under cover of The Dark Knight
- 2008.08.05: Do critics hate comic-book movies?
- 2008.08.04: And the greatest art work of the 20th century is...
- 2008.07.31: The Re-forgotten Lost Devil Girls Trailer of Ed Wood!
- 2008.07.30: Now Playing: The Selling of the President 2008
- 2008.07.29: Walking down to The Wire
- 2008.07.26: Comic-Con games
- 2008.07.24: Be the first on your block to bust the latest blockbuster
- 2008.07.24: "Talking faux-seriously about juvenilia..."
- 2008.07.24: "Calling Barranca. Calling Barranca."
- 2008.07.24: Condensed Fight Club in 2 min. 25 seconds
- 2008.07.22: Fight Club: I Am Jack's Manic-Depression
- 2008.07.22: Arial Narrow is a redneck bastard
- 2008.07.19: Comments are working (I think)
- 2008.07.18: Back up and running
- 2008.07.16: Journey to the Center of the Dump:Wall-E, color & close-ups
- 2008.07.14: The fight over Fight Club
- 2008.07.10: Tell me a story, Act II: Acts
- 2008.07.09: The color of blood: A study in scarlet
- 2008.07.03: Wandering the hallways from Marienbad to the Overlook
- 2008.06.26: What makes a movie a "classic"?
- 2008.06.24: Hitchcockian chills
- 2008.06.20: Tell me a story... or don't
- 2008.06.18: What the hell's happening in The Happening?
- 2008.06.13: Action: Steven Spielberg & the need for speed
- 2008.06.11: Film criticism: It's not just a job, it's an adventure
- 2008.06.06: To spoil or not to spoil? (Don't worry.)
- 2008.06.02: Sex and the City: Girls do poop!
- 2008.05.29: Poetry in motion -- and it rhymes, too
- 2008.05.28: Neuro-cinema turns brains to zombie mush!
- 2008.05.23: Temple of Doom: Bang a gong, sing a song
- 2008.05.19: Whiplash: Indiana Jones and the Lowered Expectations
- 2008.05.16: Star-struck: Movie criticism or astrology?
- 2008.05.16: The Narnicles of Chronia: Prince Capsicum
- 2008.05.14: Movies too personal to share with an audience
- 2008.05.13: Highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow?
- 2008.05.09: Belatedly, Iron Man
- 2008.05.08: The Greed for Speed
- 2008.05.02: Seeing behind the images: Standard Operating Procedure
- 2008.05.02: Mishima: Blood cult
- 2008.05.01: Prepping for Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure
- 2008.04.30: Autopsy of a scene: The Act ofSeeing with One's Own Eyes
- 2008.04.30: The Seitz-geist
- 2008.04.29: Matt Zoller Seitz: Rocking the House
- 2008.04.29: The Uncertainty Principle (or, The Easy Read)
- 2008.04.28: Local hero
- 2008.04.27: Overheard exposition, Part II
- 2008.04.27: Wi-Fried in Urbana
- 2008.04.25: Bill Forsyth: "Great"-ness
- 2008.04.24: Shoot the paparazzo
- 2008.04.23: Ebertfest 2008: Springing forward
- 2008.04.22: Ebertfest 2008: The year without a Roger?
- 2008.04.19: The Hollywood studio mentality in one paragraph
- 2008.04.18: Is Judd Apatow John Hughes? (Answer: No)
- 2008.04.18: The Big Kahuna Gets Lai'd
- 2008.04.18: Movies that allow you some breathing room
- 2008.04.17: Robert De Niro and the rubber chicken
- 2008.04.14: Judd Apatow: When Penis Met Vagina...and the re-invention of romantic comedy
- 2008.04.13: There Will Be Blood: Sculpting in time
- 2008.04.12: Ebert's back in the saddle!
- 2008.04.12: De-Boulderized
- 2008.04.06: Boulderizing
- 2008.04.06: The Apatow schlub: Too ugly for the girl?
- 2008.04.03: Screwballs and grace notes
- 2008.04.02: Chigurh: It's all about the money
- 2008.03.30: The Telluride legend of Richard Widmarkand the art of entertainment
- 2008.03.29: The punk-est thing since the Ramones
- 2008.03.28: No God for Anton Chigurh?
- 2008.03.28: When vaginas attack
- 2008.03.25: Movie critics: Pros and cons
- 2008.03.23: Simply the worst
- 2008.03.22: Glengarry Bear Stearns
- 2008.03.21: Funny Games: Three real-life sequels
- 2008.03.21: Chop Shop: Of hopes and hubcaps
- 2008.03.20: Arthur C. Clarke: Do aliens dreamof anthropomorphic gods?
- 2008.03.14: Dr. Haneke's diagnosis
- 2008.03.14: Welcome to the experiment
- 2008.03.14: The reviews are in: Let the Funny Games begin!
- 2008.03.14: Paranoid Park: A Beaver State of mind
- 2008.03.14: Vegas, baby, yeah!
- 2008.03.13: David Mamet says he's not a brain-dead liberal anymore
- 2008.03.13: The Monument Valley: Music as film criticism
- 2008.03.12: Your User's Guide to Movie Violence
- 2008.03.10: Fassbinder or NPR?
- 2008.03.08: Robert Downey Jr. plays it black
- 2008.03.08: IFC signs pact with devil Blockbuster
- 2008.03.07: What we think we think we know (about movies)
- 2008.03.06: The BJ
- 2008.03.04: Movie dialog that leaps off the page
- 2008.02.29: Glen Hansard slags the Once DVD cover
- 2008.02.29: Jonathan Rosenbaum on the life of a critic
- 2008.02.28: Anne Boleyn vs. Abbie Hoffman vs. the Nazis
- 2008.02.26: No Country, under the skin
- 2008.02.24: Coens take Oscars for words and picture
- 2008.02.24: Tonight (or Why I Don't Make Oscar Predictions)
- 2008.02.24: How to Give Your Oscar Speech
- 2008.02.22: Juno about the fuzzier Oscars? Presenting... The Muriels
- 2008.02.22: Dina Martina's Oscar Entertaining Party Hints!
- 2008.02.22: Dina Martina's Tried-and-True Oscarrific Recipe Blog-h'ors-d'oeuvres!
- 2008.02.21: The Signal: What to do (and not to do) when the world ends
- 2008.02.19: The Great(ness) Debate:Flesh, blood, Day-Lewis (and Oscar)
- 2008.02.16: Biggest Acting, Best and Worst: Over the top, Ma!
- 2008.02.15: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 2008.02.15: America's Funniest Undead Videos
- 2008.02.14: Oh, go ahead and jump
- 2008.02.14: Black humor: Stepin Fetchit to Richard Pryorto Tyler Perry (Part II)
- 2008.02.13: Directorama: Ozu, Ford & Kurosawa (and Ichikawa?)
- 2008.02.12: Alien vs. Predator, Chigurh vs. Plainview
- 2008.02.11: Jack Nicholson explains the Oscars for you
- 2008.02.11: Stepin Fetchit to Denzel Washington (Part I)
- 2008.02.10: Roy Scheider (1932-2008)
- 2008.02.08: Don't let this affect your opinion of Juno...
- 2008.02.07: The Cheeseburger Phone
- 2008.02.06: Best and Worst Oscar Actors
- 2008.02.06: Are Movies Going to Pieces?
- 2008.02.05: "I'm F***ing Matt Damon": A critical analysis
- 2008.02.04: 1 Julianne Moore + 1 Mark Ruffalo + 1 movie:Putting them all together
- 2008.02.03: Pulp Fiction: Nothing serious?
- 2008.02.03: No Country for Old Manhood
- 2008.02.01: Moviegoers who feel too much
- 2008.01.31: Burt-Man Begins; Black History Mumf
- 2008.01.29: Once is in!
- 2008.01.28: Bardem, Ledger and the truth about movie acting
- 2008.01.26: Is Once ineligible for Best Original Song Oscar?
- 2008.01.25: Three kinds of violence: Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood
- 2008.01.24: Werner Herzog analyzes Juno
- 2008.01.22: Heath Ledger, 1979-2008
- 2008.01.22: And the best Oscar nomination goes to...
- 2008.01.21: Weeny Todd
- 2008.01.21: Why Jonny Greenwood's score wasn't nominated
- 2008.01.18: Jumping the snark: The Juno backlash (backlash)
- 2008.01.17: Bracing for a gala full of low-wattage drainage
- 2008.01.15: War Is Over (If You Want It)
- 2008.01.11: My Cap'n, Dusty Cohl (1929 - 2008)
- 2008.01.11: Blurb-a-thon 2007
- 2008.01.08: The Dirty Harry scene
- 2008.01.07: Euphoria in a matter of seconds
- 2008.01.06: Inverting a Zodiac code
- 2008.01.06: The Rest is Noise
- 2008.01.05: Consensus and the Big Film Poll Blowout of 2007
- 2008.01.05: Listen in
- 2008.01.05: Two Python lines:
- 2007.12.28: Sick days
- 2007.12.20: My 10 best list: the movie (WGA strike/Antonioni edition)
- 2007.12.20: IndieWIRE crix poll: American blood, blood, blood
- 2007.12.18: Once (revised and sexed-up)
- 2007.12.18: Moments Out of Time 2007
- 2007.12.17: Why the Helvetica is Trajan the movie font?
- 2007.12.14: "No Country for Old Men" towers over 2007
- 2007.12.14: For Your Consideration: Anton Chigurh, Supporting Actor
- 2007.12.14: Scanners' 2007 Exploding Head Awards (Part 1)
- 2007.12.12: Your brain, dog butts, and the quantum movie
- 2007.12.11: Corliss wonders: Do Film Critics Know Anything?
- 2007.12.09: LAFCA: There Will Be... more 2007 critics awards
- 2007.12.09: Ben Horne's "Twin Peaks" set snaps
- 2007.12.08: Stages of a Cinephile
- 2007.12.07: Short film blog-a-thon
- 2007.12.06: Opening Shots: Le Samourai
- 2007.12.05: Southland Tales: No sparkle, no motion
- 2007.12.03: I'm Not There: Ode to Joy
- 2007.11.30: The slick and the raw
- 2007.11.27: No Country For Old Men: Out in all that dark
- 2007.11.25: Mr. Jones' review...
- 2007.11.20: "I get it!": A hallucinogenic experience and the movies
- 2007.11.20: One shot: They wrote that
- 2007.11.19: Ecstatic truth
- 2007.11.15: CE3K 30 3.0
- 2007.11.15: What does a movie mean?
- 2007.11.15: Margot goes round in circles
- 2007.11.14: Are You An Extra In Your Own Life?
- 2007.11.12: From the Museum of Outmoded Technology
- 2007.11.10: The Coen ideology
- 2007.11.09: Another take on the Coens & "No Country for Old Men"
- 2007.11.08: No Country for Old Literalists
- 2007.11.06: Bud Uglly: Back to the Future
- 2007.11.06: Shocking! Attend the hair of Sweeney Todd
- 2007.11.02: Written in the Flesh: A Crash Course in David Cronenberg
- 2007.10.31: Feliz Dias de los Muertos!
- 2007.10.31: Hidden horrors: Four spine-tingling DVDs
- 2007.10.30: Corliss's perverse "Top 25 Horror Movies" list
- 2007.10.29: Kirk/Spock and Dumbledore
- 2007.10.24: Film noir: Carved in black & white
- 2007.10.21: The evolution of a hat
- 2007.10.20: Dexter: Putting it together
- 2007.10.19: Psycho: Murder in close-up (without bodies)
- 2007.10.17: Close Up: The movie/essay/dream
- 2007.10.14: Close-Ups: A free-association dream sequence
- 2007.10.13: North by Northwest: Long shots as close-ups (Part 1)
- 2007.10.12: Close-Ups: Blinded by the grin
- 2007.10.11: Up close and personal: The Close-Up Blog-a-thon
- 2007.10.11: Blood rights
- 2007.10.10: Faking the real and unreeling the fake
- 2007.10.09: How does it feel? Footnote fetishism & "I'm Not There"
- 2007.10.04: 50 greatest music films ever
- 2007.10.04: "The Bridge": Legends of the Fall
- 2007.10.04: "Kite Runner" delayed to protect kids
- 2007.10.03: The new-er-est "Blade Runner"
- 2007.10.02: Words and music
- 2007.10.02: Bordwell & Thompson: Declaration of Principles
- 2007.10.01: The Golden Age of Cinemania is Now
- 2007.10.01: Opening Shots: Silent Light
- 2007.09.27: Opening Shots: Zodiac
- 2007.09.27: Z is for zed
- 2007.09.26: Make it a double
- 2007.09.25: Buñuelathon '07!
- 2007.09.24: Fear of fauna: Of horses & men & ZOO
- 2007.09.24: Web > Friends, sex?
- 2007.09.24: America's Top Pundit: Roger Ebert
- 2007.09.20: He's Here: The Legend of Pete Seeger
- 2007.09.19: Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
- 2007.09.19: TIFF 2007 Wrap: Personal best & indelible images
- 2007.09.18: TIFF 2007: Stuck in time
- 2007.09.18: TIFF 2007: Girl of Iran
- 2007.09.18: Welcome Back, Edelstein
- 2007.09.17: TIFF 2007: Movie bloggers EXPOSED!
- 2007.09.17: Plumber's Nightmare: Two cents in "The Fountain"
- 2007.09.15: TIFF 2007: The Award-Winners
- 2007.09.14: TIFF 2007: Brian De Palma on the front lines
- 2007.09.14: TIFF 2007: Robert Zimmerman Bob Dylan Revisited
- 2007.09.14: TIFF 2007: The Eastern Inbred Class
- 2007.09.13: TIFF 2007: The Evil That God Does
- 2007.09.11: TIFF 2007: What did I know and when did I know it?
- 2007.09.10: TIFF 2007: The Coens = the essence of movies
- 2007.09.10: TIFF 2007: Abortion in demand
- 2007.09.10: TIFF 2007: Cronenberg's knockout punch
- 2007.09.09: TIFF 2007: It's alive!
- 2007.09.08: TIFF 2007: Grizzly boy
- 2007.09.08: TIFF 2007: The rituals of romance
- 2007.09.08: TIFF 2007: Madmen and lawyers
- 2007.09.07: TIFF 2007: Coen Brothers update
- 2007.09.07: TIFF 2007: Casa of Horrors
- 2007.09.06: TIFF: One day at a time
- 2007.09.04: Personal note: Off to Toronto!
- 2007.09.01: Sudden impact
- 2007.08.30: Directed by David Mamet
- 2007.08.30: This show could be your life
- 2007.08.30: Hollywood: Just shut it down
- 2007.08.30: Kubrick defends himself
- 2007.08.28: Stanley Kubrick hates you
- 2007.08.28: More sex, please. We're American.
- 2007.08.28: Opening Shots: Pan's Labyrinth
- 2007.08.27: Leonard Maltin: Still "Movie Crazy"
- 2007.08.27: Another critical voice severed
- 2007.08.26: Gimme them old-time furrin pictures
- 2007.08.25: The Sixth Man: A Corleone Family Mystery
- 2007.08.25: Is it anti-American to like non-English movies?
- 2007.08.25: Unforgiven: The Discreet Bunch
- 2007.08.24: The Stepford Critics?
- 2007.08.24: The 100 Greatest Directors of... what?
- 2007.08.22: The secret ingredients of a hit movie
- 2007.08.22: The Bourne Upchuck
- 2007.08.22: Star Wars: Episode VII -- Resurrecting Mace Windu
- 2007.08.22: Rock Hudson + Bea Arthur: I have nothing more to say...
- 2007.08.20: The "Best" Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
- 2007.08.19: Holy theology! Holy film!
- 2007.08.17: Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy Bourne!
- 2007.08.17: David Lynch's Ultimate Peaks
- 2007.08.17: The answer is: Merv, Movies & "Jeopardy"
- 2007.08.16: "Blade Runner" meets "The Matrix"
- 2007.08.16: Scorsese at his best: "The Man Who Set Film Free"
- 2007.08.16: What's in David Lynch's DVD player?
- 2007.08.15: Mr. Cheney Explains It All For You
- 2007.08.14: Fanny & Rosenbaum & Bordwell
- 2007.08.09: Yes, But Is It Art? Part 237
- 2007.08.09: "There's nothing I like less..."
- 2007.08.08: Who matters?
- 2007.08.07: Ebert Strikes Back
- 2007.08.07: A cinematic (crossword) puzzle
- 2007.08.07: Godard: "It's all showbiz..."
- 2007.08.06: The 100 Most Acclaimed Movies of the 20th Century
- 2007.08.06: The enemy of my enemy is my friend
- 2007.08.06: Opening Shots: Brazil
- 2007.08.05: Bergman and Antonioni: Commercial moviemakers
- 2007.08.04: Bergman: Sawdust and Tinsel?
- 2007.08.02: Opening Shots: Army of Shadows
- 2007.08.01: Holy Holes
- 2007.07.31: Mourning (and assessing) Bergman
- 2007.07.31: "Blow-Up" corpse pays tribute to Antonioni
- 2007.07.30: Ingmar Bergman (1918 -2007)
- 2007.07.30: Words from Deadwood
- 2007.07.27: The End of "The Road"
- 2007.07.27: Opening Shots Project Index
- 2007.07.26: The Shamus, Mr. Shoop, & blogger catch-up
- 2007.07.26: László Kovács: In Memory
- 2007.07.25: An unforgivable lapse into tabloid sensationalism (in song)
- 2007.07.24: Deeper into movies
- 2007.07.23: Sherman Torgan: In Memory
- 2007.07.20: Flamers
- 2007.07.20: "There is no god!!!"
- 2007.07.19: Wilhelm: The Man and His Scream (1951 - present)
- 2007.07.19: Waxing Roth: Define "failure"
- 2007.07.19: With love, from Bay, to you...
- 2007.07.18: What I learned from Johnny Caspar...
- 2007.07.17: The Creature from the Black Lagoon (or mud puddle)
- 2007.07.16: The Hitchens/God challenge & The Atheist Film Fest
- 2007.07.06: Everything that's wrong with the world in two examples
- 2007.07.06: The Favoritest Movies (or Everybody Loves Lieblingsfilme)
- 2007.07.04: Moral relativism & "A Mighty Heart" & July 4
- 2007.07.01: Edward Yang, 1947 - 2007
- 2007.06.29: Roger Ebert on Joel Siegel's death
- 2007.06.28: Shmashmortion in the age of Bush
- 2007.06.25: An even dumberer list
- 2007.06.22: The Return of the Movie Answer Man
- 2007.06.21: The films of Joni Mitchell: A brief retrospective
- 2007.06.20: The AFI Top 100
- 2007.06.20: Racial Purity, Part II
- 2007.06.18: Torture porn: Want popcorn with that?
- 2007.06.12: David Chase breaks his omerta
- 2007.06.11: Tony Soprano, Barton Fink & Charles Foster Kane: Whaddaya want?
- 2007.06.11: Ten Movies That Shook The World
- 2007.06.10: "The Sopranos": Eighty-Sixed
- 2007.06.09: "The Sopranos": Closing the door
- 2007.06.07: Getting "Knocked Up"
- 2007.06.05: NEWS FLASH: BILL O'REILLY CAUGHT TELLING LIES!
- 2007.06.01: Theaters try to compete with living rooms
- 2007.06.01: The 24-second news cycle
- 2007.05.28: Charles Nelson Reilly, R.I.P.
- 2007.05.27: Bowie & Marianne Faithfull: "I've Got You Babe"
- 2007.05.24: 5-25-77: A Geek Odyssey
- 2007.05.24: 3-D, QT & "DP"
- 2007.05.24: Bad Waitress (Or, the Wit and Wisdom of Mr. Pink)
- 2007.05.23: How "Star Wars" changed the world (as we knew it)
- 2007.05.23: 30th Anniversary Poll: What's your favorite Star War(s)?
- 2007.05.23: (Kar-) Wai, Oh Why?
- 2007.05.15: British film Philistines
- 2007.05.14: A contrarian music video
- 2007.05.08: A Fan's Notes
- 2007.05.07: Where I've been
- 2007.05.07: Flowers from a gigolo
- 2007.05.07: Charles Has a Licking Problem
- 2007.05.04: "We can't stop the dancing chicken!": Ebertfest photos #2
- 2007.05.03: Red eye in the sky
- 2007.05.02: An insult every 6.8 seconds...
- 2007.05.02: High rollers and lowlifes
- 2007.05.01: My Ebertfest 2007 photo blog #1
- 2007.04.29: "This is not HAL 9000..."
- 2007.04.27: "This is where he wanted to be, this is where he is..."
- 2007.04.23: He's putting the Ebert in Ebertfest!
- 2007.04.20: Return to Twin Peaks
- 2007.04.10: Greetings from Boulder
- 2007.04.02: "40 years is not enough" -- Roger Ebert
- 2007.03.29: The silence of the monks
- 2007.03.29: Ebertfest '07: "It's his happening and it freaks him out!"
- 2007.03.29: Bump and Grindhouse
- 2007.03.28: Chris Rock: Blacks more electable than retarded
- 2007.03.23: LOST: Schrödinger's Cat
- 2007.03.23: Crix Nix Kix Flix (Part I)
- 2007.03.22: A Clockwork Cuckoo
- 2007.03.22: Don't forget it, Jake: It's Chinatown in Boulder!
- 2007.03.21: The Huckabees Harangues
- 2007.03.17: Lust and Death
- 2007.03.16: Prof. Irwin Corey's Foremostly Authoritative Spring Break Movie Quiz
- 2007.03.15: Coming to a bad end
- 2007.03.15: Bow down to Babs
- 2007.03.15: The Miracle of Trudy Kockenlocker
- 2007.03.14: Old White Guy Lists
- 2007.03.14: Revulsion
- 2007.03.12: Poll: Andrew Sarris and Your Greatest Films of All Time
- 2007.03.08: Attack of the Giant Amphibian!
- 2007.03.08: Brokeback Jack and the gay "Departed"?
- 2007.03.08: What if they didn't spend millions to advertise "Norbit"?
- 2007.03.08: "The Host" LIVES!
- 2007.03.05: Hurdy Gurdys and Aqua Velvas: Misc. "Zodiac" fax...
- 2007.03.05: "Zodiac": Digital and analog
- 2007.03.04: The Rise and Rise of the Celebritocracy
- 2007.03.03: What is up with that Seinfeld guy?
- 2007.03.02: On acting, authenticity and Robert De Niro
- 2007.03.02: A.O. Scott is on a roll!
- 2007.03.02: Unchain My Tart
- 2007.03.02: Opening Shots: 'The Big Animal'
- 2007.03.01: What is your favorite Oscar-winner of the last 10 years?
- 2007.02.27: When critics get slashed & butchered
- 2007.02.25: The Marty Show
- 2007.02.24: Rob Lowe, Snow White, "Proud Mary" & the Oscars
- 2007.02.22: How do you solve a problem like the Oscars?
- 2007.02.21: Queen Victoria in hot pants?
- 2007.02.21: Pauline and Renata Go Showboating
- 2007.02.21: Whose fingerprints are on 'Touch of Evil'?
- 2007.02.20: Blog-a-Thon Post Mortem: Lessons Learned?
- 2007.02.19: Trash and Art: Critics on/of Pauline Kael
- 2007.02.16: Contrarianism Blog-a-Thon: Let the perversity begin!
- 2007.02.16: Which great director is not-so-great?
- 2007.02.15: Two reviews: "The Lives of Others" & "Climates"
- 2007.02.15: The 100-Year-Old Contrarian
- 2007.02.14: A-C-T-I-N-G
- 2007.02.14: Taste into theory
- 2007.02.12: 'Fire Walk With Me' and the Lost Language of Code
- 2007.02.12: The film habits of Homo Portlandia
- 2007.02.11: Questions for the Academy
- 2007.02.10: Outguess Ebert on the Oscars
- 2007.02.09: Watching movies again. And again...
- 2007.02.09: 'Breaking and Entering' (It's a metaphor)
- 2007.02.09: Reminder: Contrarianism Blog-a-Thon next week!
- 2007.02.07: How not to blow your Oscar speech
- 2007.02.07: Fight of the Century: John Cassavetes vs. Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 2007.02.07: Just when you thought it was unsafe to go into the water...
- 2007.02.07: Hannibal Lecter, critic eLectercuted at Super Bowl
- 2007.02.06: Best movie ad tag line ever?
- 2007.02.05: Rescuing "articulate" from the Language Police
- 2007.02.05: Yes, gayer than "Dreamgirls"
- 2007.02.05: What is your favorite Scorsese Picture?
- 2007.02.04: The meaning of "articulate"
- 2007.02.03: Restoring your faith in America
- 2007.02.02: What was YOUR favorite comedy of 2006?
- 2007.01.31: Sarah Silverman, critics & the new PC
- 2007.01.26: Go Inland, young woman!
- 2007.01.26: Losing control, or ceding control, or not...
- 2007.01.25: Raping Dakota: From the Sundance resumé movie to "Indie Guignol"
- 2007.01.23: Take the Lost Highway to the Inland Empire...
- 2007.01.23: Roger's take on the Oscars
- 2007.01.23: Obligatory Oscar analysis!
- 2007.01.18: Mr. Lynch Comes to Washington
- 2007.01.17: The color of scent
- 2007.01.16: Bad form
- 2007.01.16: ANNOUNCING: The Contrarianism Blog-a-Thon: Do the Contrarian (Part III)
- 2007.01.15: Everything about the Golden Globes in four lines
- 2007.01.15: Jake Gyllenhaal stops the show!
- 2007.01.15: Gasp! Choke! As film criticism lay dying...
- 2007.01.12: Critics and 'crackpots'
- 2007.01.12: Mr. Contempt
- 2007.01.12: New Message from Roger
- 2007.01.12: The Entitled
- 2007.01.11: Four-star faves for January
- 2007.01.11: Learning from lists
- 2007.01.11: Contrarian dispatch: Are critics patronizing Scorsese?
- 2007.01.10: Up With Contempt!
- 2007.01.10: Call him "Mr. Contrarian"
- 2007.01.09: Children of...?
- 2007.01.09: When is a bloody heart not just a bloody heart?
- 2007.01.09: Johnie's Broiler, RIP
- 2007.01.08: Do the Contrarian (Part II)
- 2007.01.08: Do the Contrarian (Part I)
- 2007.01.06: Sun-Times publishing server problems -- sorry!
- 2007.01.03: Odds and Ends Beginnings for 2007
- 2006.12.21: The Double-Best of the Year
- 2006.12.21: Moments Out of Time 2006
- 2006.12.20: Judd Apatow on Comedy 2006
- 2006.12.19: 1. Ten 2. Best 3. Lists
- 2006.12.19: '50 Lost Movie Classics'
- 2006.12.19: Happy Listmas! Year is Over (If You Want It)
- 2006.12.18: Drop everything, read this now
- 2006.12.18: Dreamgirls and Soul Man
- 2006.12.18: Opening Shots: The 'Burbs
- 2006.12.18: The Perfect Storm
- 2006.12.13: Crash!
- 2006.12.06: Opening Shots: Eyes Wide Shut
- 2006.12.04: MoMA: Images on ice
- 2006.12.01: Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon!
- 2006.11.30: Pearl of the South: A tale of two reviews
- 2006.11.30: First-Shot Bordwell
- 2006.11.28: Indie Spirit Awards: Good news & bad news
- 2006.11.21: Altman: Life beyond the frame
- 2006.11.21: Robert Altman (1925-2006): Moments
- 2006.11.18: The Borat release form
- 2006.11.16: Catherine O'Hara: Queen of Comedy
- 2006.11.16: Why the Hell It's Funny Or Not, Part 2 or Possibly 3
- 2006.11.16: Bordwell covers coverage
- 2006.11.13: The comical jocularity of humorousness
- 2006.11.13: Polish poetry in motion
- 2006.11.10: Reality and fiction in 'Borat'
- 2006.11.06: Film criticism mash-up: Exciting and new!
- 2006.11.03: Opening Shots: The Girl Can't Help It
- 2006.11.02: This week: Four 4-star reviews!
- 2006.11.02: They no like Borat
- 2006.11.02: Visit the Official Web Kazakhstan (and America)
- 2006.10.31: Los Dias de Los Muertos: Thoughts on the dead & undead
- 2006.10.27: Suicide watch
- 2006.10.26: A presidential fiction
- 2006.10.24: Flagging Fathers
- 2006.10.24: 'The Departed' revisited
- 2006.10.23: Milestones
- 2006.10.20: A miracle of a movie
- 2006.10.19: Jim Crow casting?
- 2006.10.19: A view from 'The Bridge'
- 2006.10.18: Letting Go of God
- 2006.10.18: Reviews: Some great lines about movies I haven't yet seen
- 2006.10.18: Nihilism on Aldrich Street
- 2006.10.17: All about your parents
- 2006.10.17: Happy 300 million!
- 2006.10.12: 'The Departed': Choppy craftsmanship?
- 2006.10.12: Three new Ebert articles
- 2006.10.11: Roger Ebert writes from rehab
- 2006.10.07: The Ultimate Review of "The Departed"
- 2006.10.06: Putting NYFF in its place
- 2006.10.05: Study: 'Daily Show' as substantive as network news
- 2006.10.03: GoodFellas and BadFellas
- 2006.10.02: Gone missin'
- 2006.10.02: Borat: Cultural Learnings of Anti-Semitism for Make Benefit Stupid Bigots?
- 2006.09.30: Loose Canon: Paul Schrader and the end of movies
- 2006.09.30: Bordwell Does Vancouver
- 2006.09.29: A.O. Scott's perspective on NYFF
- 2006.09.28: NYFF? Fuggedaboutit!
- 2006.09.28: The best American film of the last 25 years?
- 2006.09.28: That was the fest that was
- 2006.09.28: White House: Jeff Gannon, yes; Borat, no
- 2006.09.27: Opening Shots: 'Little Murders'
- 2006.09.27: What we talk about when we talk about movies (Part 2)
- 2006.09.27: Torture, '24' and 'Dirty Harry'
- 2006.09.21: Sven Nykvist, 1922 - 2006
- 2006.09.21: What we talk about when we talk about film criticism
- 2006.09.21: The Abode of Chaos: Where we live
- 2006.09.20: Oh, the 'Idiocracy'!
- 2006.09.19: Nicole Kidman: David Thomson's plaything
- 2006.09.19: Gérard Brach, 1927 - 2006
- 2006.09.17: Toronto Fest award winners
- 2006.09.15: TIFF: Kids at play
- 2006.09.15: Brian De Palma and The Pink Dahlia
- 2006.09.14: Ain't-It-Cool-Times
- 2006.09.14: TIFF: 'RFK: The Disaster Movie'
- 2006.09.13: TIFF: Behind the mask of horror
- 2006.09.13: TIFF: Woolly Bully
- 2006.09.12: TIFF: Who shot Bush?
- 2006.09.11: TIFF: Two or three things I've noticed about Toronto
- 2006.09.11: TIFF: Matters of Life and Death
- 2006.09.11: TIFF: A-maze-ing
- 2006.09.11: TIFF: Short cuts
- 2006.09.10: TIFF: Borat R US
- 2006.09.10: TIFF: The war over there
- 2006.09.10: TIFF: What's missing here?
- 2006.09.09: TIFF: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
- 2006.09.09: TIFF: What Is This Thing Called Sex?
- 2006.09.09: TIFF: Death and the Madre
- 2006.09.09: TIFF: Tower to nowhere
- 2006.09.07: TIFF: Monsters
- 2006.09.07: TIFF: Suicide isn't painless
- 2006.09.07: Opening night
- 2006.09.07: Toronto: Beware catalog spoilers!
- 2006.09.05: Heading to Toronto
- 2006.09.03: De Palmania!
- 2006.09.02: Opening Shots: 'Greetings'
- 2006.09.01: Opening Shots: 'Raw Meat'
- 2006.09.01: Take the Opening Shots Poll!
- 2006.09.01: Opening Shots: 'Repo Man'
- 2006.08.31: Opening Shots: 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
- 2006.08.31: 'The Scream': Now more than ever
- 2006.08.31: Griffin Mill and 'The Return of the Player'
- 2006.08.30: Joe Lieberman on a Plane: Another dumb story about blogs
- 2006.08.30: Opening Shots: 'Day for Night'
- 2006.08.30: 9/11: The Movie
- 2006.08.29: Opening Shots: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
- 2006.08.29: Tracing the image #2: The rebirth of 'The Descent'
- 2006.08.29: Opening Shots: 'Cat People' (1982)
- 2006.08.28: Famous propaganda
- 2006.08.28: Don't tell me you didn't see this one coming
- 2006.08.27: Mise-en-Bob
- 2006.08.24: Opening Shots: 'Punch-Drunk Love'
- 2006.08.24: The Birth of a Button (and a Blog)
- 2006.08.24: Can you get canned for this?
- 2006.08.23: Nobody knows criticism, Part 2
- 2006.08.23: High camp: Does it translate?
- 2006.08.22: The death of film criticism has been greatly exaggerated, Part I
- 2006.08.22: Preview of Coming Attractions
- 2006.08.21: Roadkill at 35,000 feet?
- 2006.08.17: E-mail from Roger
- 2006.08.15: Title for a Movie
- 2006.08.15: Borat: For Make Milgram Experiment
- 2006.08.14: Descent imagery #1
- 2006.08.10: Say goodbye to this spot
- 2006.08.09: Best Mel Gibson joke yet
- 2006.08.09: Take the 'WTC' litmus test
- 2006.08.09: 'World Trade Center': How political is it?
- 2006.08.09: Opening Shots: 'A Hard Day's Night'
- 2006.08.08: Opening Shots: 'Petulia'
- 2006.08.08: Opening Shots: 'Quills'
- 2006.08.08: Kubrick and the cosmic zoom
- 2006.08.07: Chaz has news on Roger's recovery
- 2006.08.04: Cave paintings: The art of 'The Descent'
- 2006.08.04: 'The Descent': The deeper ending
- 2006.08.04: Opening Shots: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
- 2006.08.04: 4 for Friday: Ricky Bobby, Descent, Miss Sunshine, Night Listener
- 2006.08.04: Opening Shots: 'Man Push Cart'
- 2006.08.04: Oliver Stone: What happened?
- 2006.08.03: Dr. Bordwell Goes to Hong Kong
- 2006.08.02: En garde! Blood on film
- 2006.08.02: Opening Shots: 'The Wire'
- 2006.08.02: A brief Melification
- 2006.08.02: NORAD, 9/11 and United 93
- 2006.08.01: Bin Laden Offers Mel Gibson Anger Management Lessons
- 2006.08.01: Opening Shots: 'Ghost World'
- 2006.07.31: Opening Shots: 'Cutter's Way'
- 2006.07.31: Mad Mel's mouth
- 2006.07.30: 'The Descent': A horror-thriller for movie freaks
- 2006.07.30: Opening Shots: 'La Femme Infidel'
- 2006.07.30: Lunch With David
- 2006.07.28: Touché, Dupree!
- 2006.07.28: All apologies (and new reviews)
- 2006.07.26: Are YOU Kevin Smith's friend?
- 2006.07.25: Tex Avery: Escape from Alka-Fizz
- 2006.07.24: Me & Mr. Colbert
- 2006.07.23: Chasing the image: Barred
- 2006.07.23: Opening Shots: 'The Rapture'
- 2006.07.22: Opening Shots: 'Yojimbo'
- 2006.07.22: Who is the gaucho, amigo?
- 2006.07.21: Darth Vader goes all Sybil on us...
- 2006.07.21: The Small (But Equally Profane) Lebowski
- 2006.07.21: Film history from A to Z...
- 2006.07.21: Opening Shots: 'Femme Fatale'
- 2006.07.21: You don't even want to know what a scrunt is...
- 2006.07.20: Opening Shots: 'Juggernaut'
- 2006.07.20: Opening Shots: 'Annie Hall'
- 2006.07.19: Joel Siegel helps Kevin Smith promote 'Clerks II'
- 2006.07.18: 'Clerks II': Picking at scabrous
- 2006.07.18: Critics to Philistines: Stop ruining our fun!
- 2006.07.17: I, the Fury: Mickey Spillane, R.I.P.
- 2006.07.16: Chasing the image: Office spaces
- 2006.07.15: Wither While You Work
- 2006.07.15: Opening Shots: 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
- 2006.07.15: The Mystery of the Missing Mandy
- 2006.07.15: South Parkers speak out at last
- 2006.07.15: Opening Shots: 'Thieves Like Us'
- 2006.07.14: King of the mash-ups
- 2006.07.14: Opening Shots: 'Star Wars'
- 2006.07.14: Opening Shots: 'Accident'
- 2006.07.14: Opening Shots: 'Fight Club'
- 2006.07.14: You, Me and 'You, Me and Dupree'
- 2006.07.13: The return of 'Bloody Mary'
- 2006.07.12: Clowns and Nazis, Take 4
- 2006.07.11: Free at last, free at last? Thank Xenu Almighty!
- 2006.07.10: Comments & updates
- 2006.07.08: Opening Shots: 'Primer'
- 2006.07.07: Opening Shots: 'Nights of Cabiria'
- 2006.07.07: Eyeless in Monument Valley, Part II
- 2006.07.06: Eyeless in Monument Valley
- 2006.07.06: 'First, I'd like to thank Xenu..."
- 2006.07.06: Opening Shots: 'Withnail and I'
- 2006.07.06: Opening Shots: 'Slacker'
- 2006.07.06: Opening Shots: 'Deep Red'
- 2006.07.05: Opening Shots: 'Dawn of the Dead'
- 2006.07.04: Opening Shots: 'Caché'
- 2006.07.04: Opening Shots: 'Flowers of Shanghai'
- 2006.07.04: Opening Shots: '2001: A Space Odyssey'
- 2006.07.03: Thumbs up for Roger
- 2006.07.03: Whither Comments?
- 2006.07.02: Opening Shots Pop Quiz: Answers
- 2006.07.02: Opening Shots: 'Choose Me'
- 2006.07.01: Prescient words of wisdom from Cary Grant
- 2006.06.30: Opening Shots: 'Scarecrow'
- 2006.06.30: Seventh inning stretch-marks?
- 2006.06.30: Looking at screens
- 2006.06.30: Opening Shots Quiz 2: Answers
- 2006.06.29: Repeatable pleasures
- 2006.06.29: Opening Shots update & lexicon
- 2006.06.28: Reports of Skip's death have been somewhat exaggerated
- 2006.06.28: Opening Shots: 'Superman,' 'Lost in Translation,' more
- 2006.06.28: Opening Shots: 'Beware of a Holy Whore'
- 2006.06.28: Opening Shots: 'Halloween'
- 2006.06.28: Opening Shots: 'Stranger Than Paradise'
- 2006.06.27: Stephen Colbert on the role of artists in popular culture
- 2006.06.27: Opening Shots: 'The Crying Game'
- 2006.06.27: Opening Shots: 'Kiss Me Deadly'
- 2006.06.27: Tinseltown Trash Alert!
- 2006.06.27: Opening Shots: 'Dazed and Confused' (and more)
- 2006.06.27: New terror sleeper cell uncovered?
- 2006.06.26: Opening Shots: Keep 'em coming!
- 2006.06.26: Opening Shots: 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God'
- 2006.06.26: Opening Shots: 'Miller's Crossing'
- 2006.06.26: Opening Shots: 'His Girl Friday'
- 2006.06.26: Opening Shots: 'Altered States'
- 2006.06.26: Shyamalan recounts Disney nightmare
- 2006.06.23: Opening Shots: Quiz 2: 10 Easy Pieces (+2)
- 2006.06.23: Opening Shots Project: Pop Quiz
- 2006.06.22: "This is my happening and it freaks me out!"
- 2006.06.22: Forget it Joe, it's Chinatown
- 2006.06.21: It's a God! It's a Man! It's Super-Jesus!
- 2006.06.21: The Cinephiliac Moment
- 2006.06.21: Singin' 2: Electric Boogalooing in the Rain
- 2006.06.20: Who Killed the Electric Car?
- 2006.06.20: Between a critic and a crank
- 2006.06.16: Movies 101: Opening Shots Project
- 2006.06.15: 'Birth' of a Buñuelian Notion
- 2006.06.15: Re: Saddam's penis
- 2006.06.14: From 'Gumnaam' to 'Ghost World' to... 'Lost'?
- 2006.06.13: The musician: John Darnielle on criticism
- 2006.06.13: The critic: Manohla Dargis on film criticism
- 2006.06.12: The filmmaker: Wayne Kramer on critics & criticism
- 2006.06.11: All trails lead to 'The Searchers'
- 2006.06.08: Snakes on a ... zzzzzzz
- 2006.06.05: Product placement: The lives of 'The Sopranos'
- 2006.06.05: Critics: Irrelevant, or just... right?
- 2006.06.04: The March of 'The Sopranos'
- 2006.06.04: How Not to Write About Film
- 2006.06.04: 'The Break-Up' & 'Superman Returns': Not what you think
- 2006.06.03: Reply to 'The Da Vinci Code':
- 2006.06.02: Video games as brain aerobics
- 2006.06.02: Letter: Inconvenient truths
- 2006.06.02: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments
- 2006.06.01: Ebert has another surgery
- 2006.06.01: Letter: When theories become fact
- 2006.05.31: Diminished by the movies
- 2006.05.31: Letter: In defense of (some) Christians
- 2006.05.30: A Convenient Semi-Truth
- 2006.05.29: Letter: Intelligence and religion are not incompatible
- 2006.05.23: The Conspiracy Code Conspiracy
- 2006.05.23: The conspiracy against movie critics
- 2006.05.22: Darkness for 'Donnie Darko' director?
- 2006.05.19: 'Da Vinci Code': O, the theology!
- 2006.05.19: Wal-Mart and the Priory of Lyin'
- 2006.05.18: "Trapped in the Closet" screened in UK
- 2006.05.16: 'The Da Vinci Code': Faith in fiction?
- 2006.05.15: The Cruise-ible
- 2006.05.11: The Ultimate Movie Quiz (and Free Personality Inventory!)
- 2006.05.11: A Concise History of the Made-For-TV Issue Movie
- 2006.05.11: Why we are all doomed
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