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Best Movies of 2000 - 2020 from the LA Times Movie Critics

This is something I put together was back at the beginning of 2000 -2020 when the top 10 movie lists were published by various publications. I thought it would be a good idea to republish the lists to give you some older movies to choose from. Hope you find something worth viewing.

 "Top 10" and "Best of" movie lists are a feature of the closing of every year. Hollywood blockbusters get plenty of coverage, but what about the less-marketed, less widely-distributed independent and foreign movies? The LA Times reviewers' picks for top 10/best of 2000 - 2020 movies contain an overwhelming line up of independent, foreign, and documentary films from 2000 - 2020. Most of their picks are movies that most people will not have heard of or had an opportunity to see unless they live in large metropolitan areas, but many are now released on DVD if you wish to buy them for your collection or rent from Netflix.com.

Best 10 Movies List by Kenneth Turan

 My personal favorite movie reviewer for LA Times, Kenneth Turan, found it impossible to list just 10 picks, and titled his "top 10 movies" list as "Ten Just Isn't Enough", giving multiple picks of related genres in his list of ten.

 Turan's first picks were described by him in a Shakespearean quote as "untimely ripped" from the screens:

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"The Best of Youth" from Italy's Marco Tullio Giordana and "Duma" from Carroll Ballard

Middle-Eastern focus: "Paradise Now" and "Syriana"

Family drama: "The Squid and the Whale" with "Brokeback Mountain"

Animated: "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit"

Meditations on the nature of violence and its outcomes: "A History of Violence" and "Munich"

Documentary: "Los Angeles Plays Itself", "Born Into Brothels," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "Gunner Palace", "Occupation: Dreamland", "Grizzly Man," "March of the Penguins" "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" and "Ballets Russes"

Biographies: "Capote" and "Good Night, and Good Luck."

Blockbusters with auteur: "Batman Begins" and "King Kong."

Foreign language: "Head-On" "Saraband", "Tony Takitani" (Japanese), "The World" (Chinese), "Look at Me", (French), "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" (French), "The Holy Girl," (Spanish), "Machuca," (Spanish), "Lost Embrace" (Spanish), and "Torremolinos 73 (Spanish)

Last, but not least, and on its own, Turan's pick for 10th place was "The Constant Gardener."

Top 10 Movie Picks by Carina Chocano

 Like Turan, Carina Chocano found herself unable to limit her best 10 movies in 2000-2020 to ten, listing the following 13 movies:

"2046" (Wong Kar Wai)

"Brokeback Mountain" (Ang Lee)

"Capote" (Bennett Miller)

"The Corporation" (Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan)

"The Edukators" (Hans Weingartner)

"Grizzly Man" (Werner Herzog)

"Head-On" (Fatih Akin)

"Junebug" (Phil Morrison)

"King Kong" (Peter Jackson)

"Last Days" (Gus Van Sant)

"The Squid and the Whale" (Noah Baumbach)

"Syriana" (Stephen Gaghan)

"Turtles Can Fly" (Bahman Ghobadi)

Top Ten Movie Picks by Kevin Thomas

 Thomas was actually able to restrain himself to an actual count of 10 in his picks for Top Ten Movies for 2005.

 "Mysterious Skin." (Gregg Araki)

"Brokeback Mountain." (Ang Lee)

"Crash." (Paul Haggis)

"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada." (Tommy Lee Jones)

"Garçon Stupide" (Lionel Baier)

"Hustle & Flow" (Craig Brewer)

"Ballets Russes" (Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller)

"Tropical Malady" (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

"Keane" (Lodge Kerrigan)

"The Holy Girl." (Lucrecia Martel)

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The MLB iPhone app rocks

Take me out to the ballgame,  take me out to the crowd, buy me the MLB iPhone app then I’ll never ever go back…

It’s like being at the game, well almost. The MLB.com iPhone app is a fantastic app for the baseball fan.

Remember the days of sitting on the corner with your little transistor radio listening to the game on a Sunday afternoon? Well now imagine that same thing in addition to listening to the game you can see the box score, the pitch count, the actual strikes, balls and hits in real time, the game summary and video highlights minutes after they happen. Well this is all possible with the MLB iPhone app. In addition to all that you get all of this for every game being played.

The only downside that I see is the app crashes a little too often, but I believe that has been fixed with the latest update.

All in all we like the app a lot and think it’s well worth the $7.99

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iPhone 4GS Voice Control

So I’ve been playing around a lot with the Voice Control feature on the 4GS. First let’s start by saying this technology is nothing new to cell phones, my wife pointed that out to me when I tried to impress her with one of the many cool iPhone features.

However the Voice Control interface on the iPhone is pretty cool.

You simply press and hold the START button for 5 seconds and the program opens, the commands float by on the screen so you are always reminded of what to say to activate whatever it is you are trying to do. Such as make a phone call or play a song.

There has been a lot of complaints about the Voice Control but all in all it’s not bad, I find you have talk slow and clear to get it to work. When it finds what you command it reads it back to you and does not always pronounce names properly. For instance it calls Michael Buble; Michael Bubble.

And for whatever reason; every single time I say “Play Artist Bon Jovi” is plays Motley Crue. But that’s ok for me, and I’m thinking very few people still carry around Motley Crue songs on their iPhone.

In conclusion. I like the Voice Control feature on the new iPhone 4GS, it’s one of those things you will use to demo you new iPhone to your friends

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Analytics Agent keeps your website traffic handy at all times

Google Analytics is a fantastic tool for any website owner to keep track of all the activity on their website. I use it on all of my websites including my clients sites. It’s a must have tool for any website owner.

Now how great would it be to have all that info at your finger tips on your iPhone? Well thing no more there is a nice little app called Analytics Agents that keeps it all organized in one place.

Simply log in and configure to work with your online Google Analytics account and all the sites you have in your account are listed you open up to a list of all your sites, when you click on the site you want to see stats for it shows you a graph with daily hits. Below that you have listed all the important info you need

Visits

Pageviews

Pages/Visits

Bounce Rate

Avg. Time On Site

New Visitors

Below that you have some pie charts showing Traffic Source, Visit Types and lastly the pages with hits and bounce rate.You can switch between Direct hit stats, Referring Sites, Search Engines, Keywords used and track the stats on your Ad Words campaign.This is a real nice little app with a lot of good details to help you figure out your website traffic on the go.We give it 5 thumbs up.