All the posts of March 2002
In a business where imitation trumps originality, remakes rule. Desperate producers have regularly raided the vaults in a most-often futile effort to seize the sure thing. There have been multiple versions of “Mutiny on the Bounty,” “The Prisoner of Zenda,” and “King Solomon’s Mines,” to name just a few. But the next year or so will see the largest number of high-profile remakes ever to hit theaters in one concentrated time period.
First off, the Coen …
Is “Crash” the worst movie ever to win the Oscar for best picture? Probably not, though it definitely reeks. Academy members had a chance to make history by honoring “Brokeback Mountain,” a trailblazing gay love story that also happened to be the best movie of 2005. Instead, they voted for arguably the worst of the five films nominated—a ham-fisted expose of racial tensions in Los Angeles that pulled its punches by ending on an incongruous …
