January 2010
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What the all time list looks like, if you adjust... →
Since my previous article, I went back and exhaustively reworked the all-time adjusted box office list. New titles to the top 100 are in bold. Most amazing? Song of the South is in the top 20 films of all time. Think Avatar seems racist?
Other highlights - 2001 makes the list. This is Cinerama, a movie that was “The Imax Experience” of its day. Billy Jack at number 31. People forget...
Mamo #159: The Hurt Avatar →
The roll to total world domination continues, as Avatar takes some Golden Globes, some more records, and the increasing ire of some among the filmgoing community. We continue to handicap the…
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Adjusting for Beration
There’s been a lot of talk about the box office the past couple of months, and what it means for cinema in general. Now that the 3D digital monkey puppet movie is on a collision course with the most money ever grossed in theatres. Mostly, this falls into a series of pretty trite and predictable camps, and I wanted to take a look at these and try to see through some of what people are saying....
Mamo #158: We Drink Your Milkshake →
The end of the year, the decade, and oh, conventional filmmaking. The Matts are back to reset the conversation with the list of what we liked in the past 3653 days. As is it impossible to cover…
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Best films of the Zeros
The Absolute Best These dozen or so are in order of importance. They are my picks for the best films released between 2000-2009.
1) There Will Be Blood
2) Enter The Void
3) Speed Racer
4) Oldboy
5) Taxidermia
6) Lord of the Rings
7) Caché
8) The Incredibles
9) Du Levande
10) George Washington
11) Kill Bill
12) No Country for Old Men
13) Happy Feet
14) Peter Pan
15) Unbreakable
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Best films of 2009
1) Enter The Void
2) Valhalla Rising
3) Deliver Us From Evil
4) A Serious Man
5) Goodbye, Solo
6) Where the Wild Things Are
7) Avatar
8) Inglorious Basterds
9) Bunny & the Bull
10) Star Trek
Honourable Mentions: Hipsters, Fish Tank, Get Low, The Informant! , The Disappearance of Alice Creed and Harry Brown