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category: film
15 Dec 2008

Thats right, the 100 worst movies of the year according the TimesOnline.co.uk,

Let the bashing beging, here are the first 11:

100: The Hottie & The Nottie
“The most eagerly hated movie in America is a tongue-in-cheek homage to Paris Hilton that has drawn nothing but poisonous reviews. On IMDb it has been voted the worst film ever made” - James Christopher

99: Sex and the City
“Everything great about the series has been lost in transition. The fizz has gone, the fun looks fake and the laughs are few” - Cosmo Landesman

98: The Incredible Hulk
“Millions of dollars of computer software at their disposal and the best they can come up with is something that looks like angry Plasticine” - Wendy Ide

97: Wanted
“A movie ruthlessly designed for an audience of comic nerds who suspect that they are destined for greater things” - Kevin Maher
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96: My Blueberry Nights
“Wong Kar Wai’s first English-language film, and I, for one, hope it will be his last. Something got lost in the translation: his talent” - Cosmo Landesman

95: Easy Virtue
“A criminal waste of Colin Firth – arguably the most charming man in British cinema – in a role that requires him to shuffle around looking like an unmade bed” - Wendy Ide

94: Zack and Miri Make a Porno
“Seth Rogen is an amiable and chubby clown, and quite possibly the most unconvincing romantic hero since Adam Sandler. The most soppy and unsexy 18-certificate skin-flick ever made” - James Christopher

93: Hannah Montana
“Miley Cyrus hails from the Hilary Duff school of wholesome, squeaky-clean candy pop. She comes across as another (fake) blonde singing vacuous fluff, complete with pushy stage mom” - Saadeya Shamsuddin

92: The Oxford Murders
“Imagine The Da Vinci Code remade by a philosophy student, set mostly in Oxford bedsits starring Elijah Wood in the Tom Hanks role, and featuring the world’s most unerotic sex scene” - Kevin Maher

91: Mister Lonely
“Harmony Korine’s bizarre film about a group of celebrity impersonators who hole up in a Scottish castle: gives The Cottage a respectable run for its money in terms of making no sense at all” - James Christopher

90: The X-Files: I Want to Believe
“It’s just not very good; it’s an average episode of the TV series stretched to feature length” - Wendy Ide

89: Fine, Totally Fine
“If you’re someone who can never have enough Hello Kitty merchandise, this might be just the film for you, but I would have found it hard to bear even without the winsome music that dribbles through every scene” - Edward Porter

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category: film
15 Dec 2008

With Sean Penn’s new movie Milk out now and getting great reviews, this video on the life of Harvey Milk seems appropriate.  The video, entitled The Life of Harvey Milk: In the Footsteps of Gandhi and King, is a short documentary that interweaves the life of Harvey Milk with the human rights efforts of Gandhi and Martin Luther King.  Produced by Causecast (www.causecast.org) for Focus Features, the piece chronicles the timeline of the late San Francisco city supervisor’s fight for gay rights and highlights the historical struggle for human equality.

Milk Synopsis:

His life changed history.  His courage changed lives.

In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum. From senior citizens to union workers, Harvey Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights and became, before his untimely death in 1978, a hero for all Americans. Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk under the direction of Gus Van Sant in Milk, filmed on location in San Francisco from an original screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, and produced by Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen.

Milk charts the last eight years of Harvey Milk’s life. While living in New York City, he turns 40. Looking for more purpose, Milk and his lover Scott Smith (James Franco) relocate to San Francisco, where they found a small business, Castro Camera, in the heart of a working-class neighborhood. With his beloved Castro neighborhood and beautiful city empowering him, Milk surprises Scott and himself by becoming an outspoken agent for change.

With vitalizing support from Scott and from new friends like young activist Cleve Jones (Emile Hirsch), Milk plunges headfirst into the choppy waters of politics. Bolstering his public profile with humor, Milk’s actions speak even louder than his gift-of-gab words.

When Milk is elected supervisor for the newly zoned District 5, he tries to coordinate his efforts with those of another newly elected supervisor, Dan White (Josh Brolin). But as White and Milk’s political agendas increasingly diverge, their personal destinies tragically converge.

Milk’s platform was and is one of hope – a hero’s legacy that resonates in the here and now.

The film’s original score is by Danny Elfman. The costume designer is Danny Glicker and Elliot Graham edited the film. The production designer is Bill Groom and the film’s director of photography is Harris Savides, A.S.C.