With the Oscars coming up tomorrow, I finally decided I needed to finish up this article that I have been slowly working on for a while. Rather than talk about who’s likely to win the Oscars, it seems more worthwhile to stick to my guns and just provide a list of my favorite films from last year.
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My Favorite (and Least Favorite) Movies of 2011
Posted in Movies, tagged Beginners, Brad Pitt, Cedar Rapids, Ed Helms, Emilio Estevez, Friends with Benefits, Martin Sheen, Moneyball, Movies, My Idiot Brother, Paul Giammati, Paul Rudd, Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides, The Big Year, The Way, Win Win on February 25, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Movie Review: Dolphin Tale
Posted in Animals, Environment, Movies, tagged aquariums, Ashley Judd, bottlenose dolphins, conservation, dolphin, dolphin movie, Dolphin Tale, dolphins, Florida, Harry Connick Jr., Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, mountain top removal, oceans on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As a crowd-pleasing family film, Dolphin Tale takes few risks but will still most likely be enjoyed by its target audience. It tells the “based on true events” story of Winter, a dolphin that lost its tail after getting caught in a crab trap off of the Florida Gulf Coast. After rescue and recovery, Winter learns to swim anew, in part thanks to a first-of-its-kind prosthetic dolphin tail.
Can You Remember Disney’s 50 Animated Movies? [Video]
Posted in Movies, tagged 101 Dalmations, animated movies, animation, Disney, Disney animated motion pictures, Disney films, Disney movies, Disney's 50th animated motion picture, Tangled, The Black Cauldron, The Fox and the Hound, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh on December 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As the parent of a 3 year old girl, we are seeing a lot of Disney movies these days. The latest one is Tangled, which we saw in the theater and thought was great. When we went to see it, I was surprised to learn that it is Disney’s 50th animated motion picture. Luckily for me (and perhaps you too!) I just found a 2 minute rapid-fire video from Disney that shows the 50 films in order.
Hey, Country Strong Looks Pretty Good!
Posted in Movies, Music, tagged Country Strong, The Thing Called Love, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, River Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Running on Empty, country music, Country Music Awards, Samantha Mathis, Sandra Bullock, Dermot Mulroney, Patty Loveless on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So we all have those weird things about us that happen in our lives. One of mine is that when I was in college I suddenly started liking country music. Until that point, I really despised country music even though I grew up in Georgia.
Movie Review: Monsters
Posted in Movies, tagged aliens, Cloverfield, District 9, Monsters, Movies, Science Fiction, squid on November 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the oddest things about the new science fiction film Monsters is its name. The film takes place in a world that is entirely familiar, except that we learn in the opening sequence of the film that aliens came to Earth in a NASA probe six years earlier, started breeding, and reaking havoc. Since that [...]
Roger Ebert Explains the Role of Bathrooms in Movies
Posted in Movies, tagged bathroom, bathrooms in movies, Inception, Movies, Roger Ebert, using the bathroom in movies on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Few people know as much about movies as Roger Ebert. Last night I was reading through one of Ebert’s recent blog posts. It is about negative criticism directed toward the movie Inception. The post was titled “The Myth of a Perfect Film” (link). While the primary subject matter of the article was interesting, I found this interchange in the comments of the article and thought it was funny and quite observant.
Review: The Secret in Their Eyes
Posted in Movies, tagged Argentina, crime movies, El Secreto en Sus Ojos, foreign films, Juan Jose Campanella, movie review, movie reviews, Movies, Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Suspense movies, The Secret in Their Eyes, trains, underbelly of life, Zodiac on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to know exactly what to think after seeing the Argentine crime film “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” (The Secret in Their Eyes), but it is clear that this is an outstanding film with profound ideas about how we should pursue our passions despite the inevitable tragedies of life. It is storytelling at its most compelling and the pacing is just right. With two charismatic leads, it’s no wonder that this film won the 2010 Academy Award for best foreign picture.
Not Another Shark Movie
Posted in Animals, Environment, Movies, Science, tagged Animals, conservation, documentaries, documentary, education, endangered species, Facebook shark, fear, great white sharks, knowledge, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Movies, oceans, Our Oceans, Pacific Ocean, Science, Sean Aronson, shark attacks, shark research, sharks, surfers, surfing, tigers, White Shark Cafe on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Now that his film has been released, Aronson thinks he has added something valuable and new to “what has been said” about great whites.
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