Weekend Update – Golden Globes 2011 Live Blog!
4:00 P.M. E! has already started their Golden Globe coverage, so I guess it’s time for me to begin as well! Time for the best of Hollywood (and television) to come out and get rewarded (or robbed)....
View ArticleOscar Moment: Final 2011 Predictions!
Well, folks … guesswork is almost over. In a little over 12 hours, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will announce their nominations for the best of the best of 2011. We’ve had...
View ArticleREVIEW: Side by Side
If you are a film buff, “Side by Side” is a documentary that is totally up your alley. If you just enjoy watching movies for fun, “Side by Side” will easily raise you up to aficionado level on the...
View ArticleLISTFUL THINKING: Most Anticipated Movies of 2013
I’ll still be stuck in 2012 at least until the Oscars are handed out and until then will be filling in with reviews of some of the movies I missed from the year. But it’s time to move forward and look...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Wolf of Wall Street
Sex. Cocaine. Hookers. Profanity. Quaaludes. Destruction. Money. Orgies. More profanity. More sex. More cocaine. More destruction. More money. Normally these are the kinds of things that liven up a...
View ArticleREVIEW: Life Itself
Film critic Roger Ebert inspired many people and touched countless lives, ranging from saving Martin Scorsese from self-implosion to many much smaller-scale interactions. One such example is a brief...
View ArticleTelluride Film Festival Diary, Day 1
12:45 P.M.: TGIF, everyone! I’m headed into a packed day that will have me at some incredible events. For all those who are really dying to know, here’s the schedule I’ve been given for the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Hitchcock/Truffaut
Though Kent Jones’ documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut” may bear the name of two deceased titans of the cinema, but make no mistake about it: this film is focused on those still living and producing vital...
View ArticleREVIEW: Before the Flood
Admittedly, I know fairly little about climate change apart from what I learn in documentary films. (You didn’t ask for this, but I’ll provide two recommendations anyways – “Merchants of Doubt” in...
View ArticleREVIEW: Silence
Like I do with many great films, I approached reviewing Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” with a reverence tinged with trepidation. No matter how many seemingly objective angles I took to evaluating it, I...
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