For the second year in a row, my wife and I managed to see all of the best picture nominees prior to the Oscars. We love movies, and while admittedly this accomplishment is minor, it's also a lot of fun. There are nine nominees this year which is a lot! Some of these movies we [...]
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A Book Review of “Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind”
If like the show Entourage, imagine it starring River Phoenix and that's the kind of book you get here. It's all highly entertaining and full of juicy Hollywood backstories and gossip.
What I Liked Least about Oz the Great and Powerful
This ain't yo mama o yo papa's Oz. Prior to seeing Oz the Great and Powerful today, I was aware that my favorite reviewer, Dana Stevens of Slate, had given it a terrible review. Her devastating headline: "No brain, no heart, no courage." After seeing such a scathing (and effective!) headline, I decided not to read the [...]
My Favorite (and Least Favorite) Movies of 2011
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.
Movie Review: Monsters
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
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
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
Now that his film has been released, Aronson thinks he has added something valuable and new to "what has been said" about great whites.
Is George Clooney Currently the Favorite Actor of Movie Buffs?
I was recently thinking about George Clooney. For the past few years he seems to have been in a movie almost every year that has been hailed by critics as "one of the best movies of the year." I write that facetiously as my wife and I often joke about this type of shameless marketing. [...]
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