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Some issue movies have become for liberals, who are more than twice as likely as conservatives to say they prefer documentaries, what talk radio is for conservatives: a way of rallying the base. Many follow the pattern of the $370 million--grossing 2004 juggernaut The Passion of the Christ. Fewer...
Sometimes Oscar's taste is validated by history. There are five Best Picture winners among the Top 10 honorees on the American Film Institute's list of the all-time best movies: Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather and Schindler's List. It's also true...
Lucasfilm's biggest competitor in animation, Disney, has so far limited its creative forays in Asia to teaming up with local companies, using a very different formula with some early success. In June, Disney released The Secret of the Magic Gourd, its first Mandarin-language film made for mainland China...
If the Oscars can be faulted for anything, it's not for nominating obscure movies. Perhaps at its inception, popular films had the greatest artistic merit. But in a year in which intellectually void, flashy crowd pleasers (like 300 and Transformers) and idiotic supposed comedies (like Wild Hogs and Rush...
IF THE OSCARS CAN BE FAULTED FOR ANYthing, it's not for nominating obscure movies. Perhaps at its inception, popular films had the greatest artistic merit. But in a year in which intellectually devoid, flashy crowd pleasers (like 300 and Transformers) and crude, idiotic, supposed comedies (like Wild Hogs and...