Patrick James
Hello GOOD readers. Since everyone's going bonkers about this year's Oscars, we thought it fitting to hitch a ride on the band wagon. Now we're taking that ride to a town called Pollsville. We haven't been there for a little while, but we know it well. Look below...we've arrived!
Feel free to expound your choice in the comments section.
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Make it by Monday: A DIY Valentine's Day
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
OUTSOURCED Directed by John Jeffcoat. Opens today in Manhattan."Outsourced, in which a Seattle call center manager named Todd (Josh Hamilton) is...
MY KID COULD PAINT THATDirected by Amir Bar-Lev. In Limited Release. (Marla Olmstead pictured above.)"A story that had seemed to raise...
CONTROL Directed by Anton Corbijn. In Limited Release."Control tells a sad story that is also a chronicle of success, and it declines to find an...
GONE BABY GONE Directed by Ben Affleck. In Wide Release."... one of the graces of Gone Baby Gone is its sensitivity to real struggle, to the...
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEADDirected by Sidney Lumet. In Wide Release."Mr. Lumet takes what might have been a claustrophobic genre exercise...
DARFUR NOW Directed by Theodore Braun. In Limited Release."What Darfur Now offers is a collective vision of actions, small and large, taken on...
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MENDirected by Joel and Ethan Coen. In Wide Release."And the minutes fly by, leaving behind some unsettling notions about the...
CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERODirected by Matt Ogens. Laemmle's Music Hall in Los Angeles (One Week Run)."Celebrity is America's true addiction, and...
DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLYDirected by Julian Schnabel. Opens today in NY & LA."...a movie about deprivation becomes a celebration of the...
JUNO Directed by Jason Reitman. In Wide Release."Directed by Jason Reitman ("Thank You for Smoking") from a screenplay by hot newcomer and media...
SWEENEY TODD Directed by Tim Burton. In Wide Release."Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Mr. Burton's film adaptation of Mr....
It's too late for new releases to be considered for the Oscars and–guess what?–pickings are slim at the multiplex. These two came out over the...
THE VIOLINDirected by Francisco Vargas. In Limited Release."'The Violin' emphasizes the timeless necessity and even inevitability of rebellion on...
So, neither of the major timeses (NY, LA) cared for Cloverfield all that much. But we're stoked to spill our popcorn over it this weekend. Here's...
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYSDirected by Cristian Mungiu. Opens today in New York."[The camera's consciousness] is embodied by a young university...
THE WITNESSESDirected by André Téchiné. Opens in New York today."The fluid sexuality of at least one male character in most Téchiné films is...
PRAYING WITH LIORDirected by Ilana Trachtman. Playing in New York."Shot over three years in a close-knit Jewish Reconstructionist community in...
THE 2007 ACADEMY AWARD-NOMINATED SHORT FILMSVarious Directors. Opens on Friday nationwide.The New York Times has a great rundown of the 10 films...
With Netflix streaming on the rise, pricey movie theaters are less and less attractive. Let's lower film budgets and thus ticket prices.
USB movie rental kiosks harness new technology, and self-destructing files to let you watch movies more impulsively.
