Craig's MovieBlog

Roger Ebert's Top 10 of 2007

Caught Juno today.  Pretty darn perfect if you ask me... or Roger Ebert:

1. Juno
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4. Atonement
5. The Kite Runner
6. Away From Her
7. Across the Universe
8. La Vie en Rose
9. The Great Debaters
10. Into the Wild

Conspicuously Missing: Sweeney Todd, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, Charlie Wilson's War, The Savages, American Gangster, Zodiac, Once, etc...

Across the Universe Has Too Many Cooks in Their Kitchen

First, you can see the trailer for the disputed film, Across the Universe, here.

However, the controversy raging about the film is a good one.  I mean, why wouldn't the acclaimed director of Revenge of the Nerds II and Christmas with the Kranks know how to make a better film than the director of Titus and Broadway's The Lion King, Julie Taymor? 

Catch up on her battle with Joe Roth and Alan Smithee (wink, wink) at Defamer, The New York Times, and Hollywood Wiretap.

UPDATE: There are two more really good pieces on this.  Jeff Wells chimes in, but Nikki Finke's article is hands-down the best coverage on the spat.