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...possible for a major Hollywood studio to make a $50 million movie in which the hero is a terrorist? A terrorist who appears wearing the dynamite waistcoat of a suicide bomber, and who utters the line--from beneath a full-face wooden mask that he never takes off--"Blowing up a building can change the world"? A movie written and produced by the Wachowski brothers, the cyberauteurs who created The Matrix? Starring Natalie Portman, shaved as bald as Demi Moore in G.I. Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mad Man In The Mask | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

These are not rhetorical questions. V for Vendetta, set for release March 17, is that movie, and it is the most bizarre Hollywood production you will see (or refuse to see) this year. It's the kind of film that makes you ask questions like, Who thought this was a good idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mad Man In The Mask | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...know all you need - and too much more - to win on Sunday night. And as a film professional, and someone who?s played this lottery for a half-century, I will cite one last bit of Hollywood wisdom: William Goldman?s "Nobody knows anything." That should console you, and me, Monday morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win Your Oscar Pool | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...nominations: Transamerica and, for Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents. Ferocity over likability could also lift Weisz, in The Constant Gardener, over adorable Amy Adams, in Junebug. The same logic applies to both Actress categories: do you want the driven idealist or the down-home cutie? As for Supporting Actor, Hollywood may want to reward George Clooney, the hunk with a liberal heart; but Gyllenhaal really deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win Your Oscar Pool | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...actors run around a bit, editing. No such easy marks this time. Look for Memoirs of a Geisha, a critical and box office disappointment but seemingly run off from the Academy template, to win a couple of these consolation prizes - and for King Kong, the film Hollywood was expecting would dominate the Oscars, to take the Special Effects trophy and maybe one or two others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win Your Oscar Pool | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

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