Inception was the most entertaining film, The Social Network was the most clever film, but if The King’s Speech wins Best Picture in a couple weeks, I won’t be surprised. It’s one of those films where all the elements are top notch. If I pitched you a movie about Facebook and a movie about […]
Actual conversation in the bathroom while the closing credits were still going… Dude 1: “You just come out of Black Swan?” Dude 2: “Yeah.” Dude 1: “What the hell was that?” What that was, my friends, was a Darren Aronofsky film. Visual, trippy, and probably the best third act I’ve seen in the past […]
To paraphrase the Sports Guy, the ‘underdog boxer’ genre has probably been worn dry. Like the gangster genre, boxing has created some of the greatest films ever made (with the Rocky series and Raging Bull immediately coming to mind). The standard is ridiculously high. I go with that lead in to say The Fighter is […]
The opinions I’ve heard about The Kids Are All Right have run the gamut from ‘great indie film’ to ‘whatever word is the opposite of misogyny.’ It got a Globe nomination for Best Screenplay and on the whole I’ve heard good things so I had to check it out. I don’t know whether this is […]
The Town is one of the movies that’s been hanging around all year and has a shot at a Best Picture nomination next year now that they’ve expanded the field to 10 films. A friend on Twitter referred to this flick as Set It Off for white folks, and I get where they got that […]
While not the crowd pleaser that Slumdog Millionaire was (and let’s be honest, few films are), 127 Hours has all the makings of another Oscar-caliber film for Danny Boyle. Based on the true story of a young man who got trapped in a Utah canyon and had to cut off his own arm to survive, […]
Spent quite a bit of time this past week staring at the big screen. Let the awards season begin! Real quick wrap ups of three films I’ve seen the past week: N Secure is a film about abusive relationships, set in the upper/middle class black community. The film buff in me thought this movie had […]
There’s Chris Nolan and there’s everybody else right now. That was my first thought walking out of Inception a little while ago. I’m not saying there aren’t other filmmakers capable of making films as thought provoking or visually interesting as him; nothing could be further from the truth. But with the billion dollar Dark Knight […]
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