‘A Most Violent Year’

  You know, we’ve been in ‘anti-hero’ mode for so long, it was really nice to see an old-fashioned New York pic like ‘A Most Violent Year’ show up. The National Board of Review’s Best Film of 2014 (somehow shut out of the Oscars) stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain as a young couple carving […]

Song of the Day – ‘You Rock My World’

As we’re in the middle of comparing great acting performances, I have to apply the same standard across the board. Michael Jackson, my personal favorite artist ever, probably the greatest pop star of all time. Great actor at times like Sinatra?  No.  Good actor even?  Um…. Look, even the best actors figure out what they […]

‘Birdman’

‘You confuse love with admiration.’ Can I stop right there?  Please?  Alright, I’ll write a full review… No surprise why so many actors/artists/Hollywood types love this one.  The original Dark Knight, Michael Keaton, stars as a past his prime movie star who tries to return to relevancy by staging a Broadway play. The rest of […]

‘The Judge’

Robert Duvall is nominated this year for playing the title character in this courtroom drama.  The strong patriarch with three sons with different personalities, a death on a fishing boat, Robert Friggin Duvall; impossible not to draw comparisons to ‘The Godfather’.  I’d still like to see Duvall, Robert Downey Jr, and Vincent D’Onofrio in an […]

‘Whiplash’

I loved this one! There’s always one ‘really small’ movie that doesn’t have a big enough machine behind it to really win Best Picture, but five years later we may look back on it as the Best Picture of the year.  ‘Whiplash’ is that movie this year. I know I’m biased as a hypercompetitive narcisstic […]

OHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

  Let me be the 130,428,241st person to tell the WWE: ABOUT DAMN TIME HE WENT INTO THE HALL OF FAME!!!!! It really is a shame he didn’t live long enough that we’ll hear his speech.  The best all around performer in WWE of his generation. Depending on how you feel about Naitch, you may […]