"Win Win" Catch-up
Tom McCarthy's "Win Win", which I just caught up with last week, is a truthful, affectionate family drama, one that's easy to snuggle up to and sympathize with, while still staying true to its self and...
View ArticleBoyega for "Attack the Block"
For me, there's no more enduring performance this year than John Boyega's in "Attack the Block," Joe Cornish's slick, propulsive small-scale action-comedy hybrid which rose through the ranks of genre...
View Article"Shame" on Me
Seeing Steve McQueen's "Shame" tomorrow afternoon (thank you, NFL, for scheduling no games of consequence until Sunday night...), so certainly looking forward to that. With school pretty much wrapped...
View ArticleThe Playlist's Best Scores of 2011
I look forward to this list every year. The Playlist, a movie blog with a deceiving background as a music-in-movies specialty, released their list of the best scores/soundtracks of the year. Some are...
View ArticleThoughts on "Shame" (2011)
I'm not entirely sold on Steve McQueen's "Shame", but this immaculately cold and detached portrait of a Manhattan sex addict is a real work of art. Every frame of this film appears calculated and...
View ArticleThoughts on "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" (2011)
Brad Bird's "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" is such a feat of high-tech globe-trotting spy-movie extravagance that it takes nearly the majority of the film's running time to reveal itself as a...
View ArticleThoughts on "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" (2011)
The production design on Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows", from the costume department to the art direction to Hans Zimmer's now-familiar score is, I must say, first-rate stuff -...
View ArticleThoughts on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011)
Without question, David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is a much more accomplished, taut and ornamented adaptation of Steig Larsson's runaway bestseller than that wretched Swedish-language...
View Article2011: The Worst Films of the Year
I've pretty much exhausted what 2011 has to offer and with a viewing of Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" some time this weekend, that will make it 113 films seen this year - some bad, some good, but as...
View ArticleBest of 2011: Male Performances
5. Brad Pitt, "The Tree of Life" - As a temperamental, disciplinary father trying to raise his family in rural Texas in the 1950's, Brad Pitt's performance in many ways provides the backbone to...
View ArticleBest of 2011: Female Performances
5. Kirsten Dunst, "Melancholia" - Working for the first time with Danish provacateur Lars von Trier, Dunst, with a glazed-over despondency, is the perfect conduit for von Trier's mediation on...
View ArticleBest of 2011: The Films
Truthfully, 2011 was a year that produced very few great films, even fewer good ones and a surplus of decent ones. Thus, making a Top 20 list was more a reach than in year's past, yet like every year,...
View ArticleThe 20 Greatest Title Sequences of All-Time
Everybody has to do one of these lists, right? I've been thinking about it for a while and decided it was time to just throw it out there. - Really my only rule when compiling this list was making...
View ArticleUgly Box-Art
- -Of course I had to buy "Drive" this week, but don't think this nasty navy blue atrocity with its pinstriped type and lousy quote didn't make it just a wee bit tougher to shell out the $20 bucks to...
View ArticleCapa's Jump
Never gets old. Piece composed by John Murphy. Obviously from Danny Boyle's "Sunshine". -
View ArticlePoster Project
My first digital poster for Luis Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel". - -
View ArticlePoster Project #2
2nd attempt at digital poster. Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
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