Unless you plan to take off from work in observation of All Saints Day, it’s possible that the Tuesday morning alarm will prevent you from celebrating the witching hours of Halloween proper away with gallons of Guinness. However, if you happened to celebrate the day of the dead on the Saturday prior and you’re looking to have […]
The prison film might be the genre most antithetical to how we view heroes and villains. As opposed to films set in courtrooms where the victim usually wins and the bad guy goes to jail to contemplate his or her crimes, the protagonists in prison films are often the guilty party, the ones who couldn’t get away […]
As the New York City Sanitation Department is condemned for their lackadaisical performance during last week’s blizzard, I gaze out my window at the piles of uncollected garbage that fill our New York City street, so it seems appropriate to make a brief list of the rubbish movies that I saw this year. Now, just for clarification, […]
The first word out of my mouth after seeing a “great” movie is more often than not, an expletive. Followed by an exhale. I would’ve have thought with “The Social Network”, closing with The Beatles classic “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” would have evoked that emotion. It didn’t. It did however after Leo DiCaprio’s final line of […]
I haven’t seen every single music documentary released between 2000-2010, but I have come pretty close. I’ll watch one on any band whether I’m a fan or not. Most of the time documentaries about bands I don’t really like or am completely unfamiliar with turn out to be the most interesting. Compiling this list was much harder […]
[Ed. Note: Please welcome film aficionado Robert Cotto to the Do You Like Movies About Gladiators? team. He watches way more movies than I and is thus here to breakdown his best of 2009 as we enter Golden Globe/Oscar season.] 2009 was a rather important year in cinema for me. Not because of the films that came […]
As the first decade of this millennium passes, there’s a focus on the “best of” well, everything. Can’t say I’m above this: in a previous post, I ranked the last ten Best Picture winners, and I’m currently working on an article that ranks the days of the week (screw Thursday). Why Thursday you ask? Well, because […]
As 2009 comes to a close, it’s time for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to award the producers who have sent out the most gift baskets in the last year with a tiny gold statue. And to improve on the mediocrity of nominations from 2008, this year the Academy has decided to sift through […]
The other night, I sat in a bar and — judging by the next-day hangover — drank a pitcher or two of methanol dyed brown. Anteblindness, an interesting conversation brewed over the best sequels of all time. You’d figure given the tendency of terrible sequels to spawn from a box-office hit that was probably such because of […]
I’m only calling this “The 20 Best Movies of the 2000s” since that’s what everyone else is calling their lists. Because more than attempting to rank the “best” films objectively, this is probably closer to something that should be called “My 20 Movies of the Decade.” I mean, I’m not just putting random movies on here that I […]