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Dim the lights…  One You'll Be WatchingIn 10 Years Time... Innocence - Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s brilliantly oneiric female coming-of-age fable was shamefully overlooked on its belated release in the UK. One that should be reviewed and re-viewed over and over again. LS  innocence review Comeback Of The Year... Mickey Rourke – The only recognisable human in Sin City. LS sin city featureMatt Dillon - Written off as an overrated has-been relegated to lampooning his goofy image, Dillon proved that Drugstore Cowboy was no fluke. His performances in Crash and Factotum were his best for over a decade. KA matt dillon audio interviewcrash interview Most Overexposed Actor... Bill Murray’s Sole Facial Expression – Yes he’s a legend, but his default setting of silent doleful bemusement in The Life Aquatic… and Broken Flowers is starting to show its age. LS broken flowers reviewthe life aquatic... review BreakthroughAward... Chiwetel Ejiofor From cross-dressing cabaret star (Kinky Boots) to Detroit mobster (Four Brothers), to New York jazzman (Melinda And Melinda), to intergalactic bad guy (Serenity), there’s nothing this Brit can’t do. LS melinda and melinda reviewMaria Bello The best thing by far in one of the year’s best, A History Of Violence. LS a history of violence review Best DirectingDebut... Jacob Aaron Estes – In Mean Creak, the 32-year-old Estes places us in the dark ravine where Blood Simple meets Deliverance. It’s not just a great script, he also manages to elicit brilliant performances from his young ensemble cast. KA jacob aaron estes video interview The “I Can’t Believe It’s Any Good”Award... The 40-Year-Old Virgin – OK, we were put off by the title and refused to go and watch this “guaranteed tripe”. Then word got out that it might actually be funny. It was. Shame. KA  BestRemake... The Beat That My Heart Skipped - After decades of inferior Hollywood “homages” to French movies, director Jacques Audiard and dynamic actor Romain Duris, reworked and effortlessly surpassed James Toback and Harvey Keitel’s Fingers (1978). LS Learning the lesson from Soderbergh that when making a remake choose a film that people do not love, Audiard gives Fingers some French cool. And an actor (Duris) who’s far better-looking than Harvey Keitel. KA the beat that my heart skipped review Best SexScene... Battle In Heaven - C’mon, not everyone has abs like Brad Pitt or breasts like Salma Hayek. So well done to director Carlos Reygadas for showing us what we really look like when we’re shagging. KA carlos reygadas video interview The Porky’s Award For Gratuitous Sex... 9 Songs – Sixty-nine minutes long? It felt more like nine and a half weeks. LS michael winterbottom interviewTwentynine Palms – A shameless attempt to justify its hateful excesses through loads of gratuitous sex. Catnip to arthouse snipers. LS twentynine palms review Best On-Screen Couple... Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbett- Every great screen couple works by turning hate into love. In Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin, these two talents had audiences forgetting the hate that bound them together and falling in love with an exceptional film.KA gregg araki video interview Best Drugs Scene.... Maria Full Of Grace – Proving that you don’t need guns, mountains of white powder and Al Pacino to create tension in a drugs film, the wonderful Catalina Sandino Moreno simply sits on a flight desperately trying not to go to the toilet. KA joshua marston video interview Best ConceptFor A Film... Dear Wendy – “Pacifists with guns”. Alright, the allegorical nature of the story-telling wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea but the simple three-word premise was, and still is, genius. KA dear wendy review Best SubjectMatter... Moolaadé - Legendary African director, Ousmane Sembene, came up trumps with this story, dealing with an issue most people want to sweep under the carpet – female circumcision. KA  The Catwoman AwardFor Biggest Disappointment... Elizabethtown (all of it) - Cameron Crowe lets his record collection dictate his script to disastrous effect. LS War Of The Worlds (the ending) – After 100 minutes of punishing annihilation, Spielberg’s inner ET awakes to curdle us in a cheese-fest. Ouch. LS  MostOverhyped... Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith – Better than Episodes I and II, but that’s a(na)kin to saying the Gulf Wars weren’t as disastrous as Vietnam. LS  MostOverrated... Million Dollar Baby – Clint Eastwood’s snore-fest won Best Picture at the Oscars. Need we say more? KA  The Sylvester StalloneWHY? Award Marvel Comics movies – That grating sound you hear is the rear end of their particular barrel being ravaged. After Daredevil, who needed Elektra? And after the genius of The Incredibles, how can they justify the dire Fantastic Four? LS Kaleem Aftab and Leigh Singer.  comments
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comment by sunsetbeach
Jan 6, 2006
Cool. It's like Eurovision!
comment by Alfredo
Jan 6, 2006
Thanks from Amsterdam
comment by sunsetbeach
Jan 6, 2006
Every forum I've used has had that policy. It would be impossible if a new comment appeared on page 4 of a 20 page discussion. Usually there's a quote button of course but not here. Same with italics, bold, etc. Yet they have the smileys. Crazy. But that's the BBC.
comment by Alfredo
Jan 6, 2006
I get it; strange, very strange. The screen suggests that one can "comment" at a very specific posting; say 3. But whatever you want, it always ends after the last posting. Well, if that's the way it is, I'll have to get used to that.
comment by Alfredo
Jan 6, 2006
comment to post 3
comment by theswampmonster
Dec 21, 2005
Batman Begins was good but sooooo drawn out man. Michael Caine sounded more like Alfie than Alfred.I've got a good a novel idea how about making a film of the War of the Worlds the book written by HG Wells for once & how about setting it in England instead of the ET sequel we got from Steven Spoilberg.
comment by Niall-W
Dec 21, 2005
Best film involving Nazis - "Downfall" - saw that on More 4 the other week, and it's loads better than prejudice would probably lead you to believe. I ended up caring what happened to the various Nazis anyway, and the bit where Mrs Goebbels kills her children was absolutely heart-rending. Surprisingly moving.
comment by iabanon
Dec 21, 2005
did somebody complain about my post and what the hell for!? 
comment by anubis2
Dec 19, 2005
all fair points about the filming - i was just ambivalent to it and just watched it as a bit of a no brainer popcorn fluff - it went on to be one of the biggest grossers of the year though so what do we know?on the other end of the scale there was Kingdom Of Heaven - i quite liked that - especially as it didnt focus on big set piece battles apart from the city siege but it got slated mercilessly and only recouped less than a third of its production budget at the box office so it's different strokes for different folks. again.
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