Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
Foxcatcher chronicles the tragic partnership of multi-m
Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
A lot has been made about the Academy’s snub of Ben Affleck’s direction of Argo, despite wide acclaim for the movie. The subsequent criticism of the Academy is certainly warranted, particularly if you want to focus on the fact that Affleck provided a movie that is essentially about a half-dozen people getting on an airplane and dealing […]
Just in case you haven’t read enough critiques of Tarantino’s seventh film. Here’s one more.
The Razzie Award nominees were announced on January 8th, but does anyone really care about a group that selects the most clearly awful films that weren’t trying to be good anyway? There is nothing like staying as close to the tree trunk as possible by picking an Adam Sandler-produced movie (which they did) or an Eddie Murphy […]
A little haiku for movie-loving public and some of it rhymes.
It’s Oscar season! Let the conjecturing begin!
How prophetic are the DGA announcements this year?
Academy Award nominations come out tomorrow. Who might surprise us? Who shouldn’t?
The fervor over Zero Dark Thirty, the allegations that it condones torture, and its alleged factual inconsistencies have seemingly come to a head. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Senators Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levine, and John McCain “are raising the possibility that the CIA might have misled director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal and are demanding that […]
Hope Springs offers a tense, unflinching look at the waning years of a marriage.
Texas Chainsaw 3D takes over the box office. Here’s our thoughts as to why.
