This year's crop of films focused on the indomitability of the human spirit
Some time late July, deep in the heart of the summer blockbuster movie season, I had what you might call a film critic’s existential crisis.
It was the summer, you recall, of Grown Ups 2 and...
Last year, I wrote a column bemoaning the fact that, thanks to social media and blogs devoted exclusively to Academy Award prognostication, the Oscars have lost all their suspense.
Oh what a...
Dopers, liars, and questionable heroes have been in the news a lot lately, thanks to both Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens being snubbed for the Baseball Hall of Fame and Lance Armstrong getting...
Every year, there are so-called Oscar snubs, people we thought were shoo-ins, or at least deserving of a nod, who got passed over for the nomination. It’s inevitable, if not necessarily fair...
For me, 2012 was the year of the BUT. (That’s one t, people. One t.)
I loved Zero Dark Thirty BUT was uncomfortable with its seemingly pro-torture politics.
I found Django Unchained to be...
There’s been a little controversy on the interwebs over himbo Channing Tatum winning the title of People’s Sexiest Man Alive over Ryan Gosling and I want to come to Tatum’s defense.
Let me...
This year’s Oscar race has been a lot like the Republican primary. The nominees have been extremely divisive (with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close being the Herman Cain of the bunch) and...
I’ve made no bones about the fact that I am something of a Diablo Cody fangirl. I loved Juno and Young Adult made my honorable mention list for best of this year.
But a question has been...
Warning: This isn’t so much a review of The Descendants as a discussion of why it didn’t quite “do it” for me. So I’m assuming that anyone who reads this has already seen the film. In other...
It’s almost impossible to do this, but when I assemble a Top 10 list, I like to imagine myself a decade from now, reflecting back on the year that was. Which 2011 films will really stick out...