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Frankie, Frankie, Frankie. Ya killin’ me here.
…Okay. I haven’t seen Central Station, The Heiress, Judgment at Nuremberg, or Monster’s Ball, so I won’t vote for them.
That doesn’t help much in terms of ruling things out, …
Two clear favorites here in the Jordan Division, just based on nominations-round name-checking: The Killing Fields and Saving Private Ryan. The first I endorse; the second I consider more of an action movie, and the …
The inevitable division in which I haven’t seen much, alas. A very few words about the films I know, then, starting with Double Indemnity. I watched it for the first time recently (…I know, I …
Without double-checking the remaining divisions, I have to compare Polley to the NL East, where you’ve got one team contending and the rest pantsing around like the Bad News Bears.
Washington Nationals duty in this lineup …
Wow.
I don’t know if Blow Out will do very well, but it’s a great film with no hope for human beings — as well as 1) De Palma at his best at harnessing his intensities …
We may have to conduct a separate poll for who gets Cinemarch Madness’s poster-girl honors: Emily Watson and Emmanuelle Riva well in the lead at this point.
Milestone is an odd lot, isn’t it? Yeah, I …
If you only have time in your life for one Elvis Presley biography, and can’t commit to the diaristic detail of the two-volume Guralnick, you could do worse than Down at the end of Lonely …
From the looks of the nominations thread, the George Divison belongs to Hotel Rwanda, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Where the Red Fern Grows. We saw valid cases made for all; I haven’t watched any of these, …
What a strange flight Kaplan is. I don’t quite understand the noms for Murder in the First and V for Vendetta, or even for Brazil, a movie I recall as having enough of a funny …
The randomizer giveth, the randomizer taketh away. What it giveth here in the Ku division is two presumptive favorites, Breaking the Waves and Requiem for a Dream, plus a Gary Oldman joint and some embattled …