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Hollywood Bias? Snubbed Documentary “2016” More Popular Than The 15 Oscar Contenders Combined

Posted on Dec 5, 2012 | Comments Off

The Academy Awards are never about the best movies, or even the movies people go to see, or even good movies. Instead, they are about rewarding the ‘right kind’ of production.  “Out Of Africa” got 11 Oscar nominations while “Ran” was not nominated for even one. American directors have made their whole careers lifting the work of Akira Kurosawa but he only got...

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Dear Wachowski Brothers

Posted on Jul 30, 2011 | Comments Off

For the first 15 minutes of “Speed Racer” you have us convinced you are making the best movie of 2008,  “The Matrix” for kids and race cars.   Then you introduce two swear words and a pointless interlude and you end up giving us “The Matrix Revolutions” instead. I’d recut this movie and make it good if you would accept my help.  I can’t do much...

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