Jan07

Take 5 — At Year’s End 2012

Five writers. Five looks at the five best films. Five number ones. Boy, are we inconsistent.

 

 

MGM’s recent announcement that Carrie, a remake of Brian De Palma’s 1976 film of the same name, will be moved to October is a bit difficult to read – much like the remake itself. On the one hand, this newest version (another one, starring no one in particular, was made for television in 2002) might be decent […]

 

 

This year’s second attempt at presidential biography falls short because it’s unsure where it’s going.

 

 

Every time you sit down for a movie, whether it’s in the theater or your home, you have a preconception about what’s going to run on that screen for the next two hours. The previews certainly influence this. So do the cast and their filmography. Perhaps the writer has a trope that just won’t die. Or, a […]

 

 

Project X gives us some thoughts about the reasons for piracy.

 

 

On the heels of Django Unchained, we take a look at Tarantino’s best characters.

 

 

It was inevitable that, someday, someone would be reading Twilight while watching the Walking Dead.

 

 

There’s always one film that causes audiences to jeer … in part because it gets a bit too close.