Q and A Session with Under the Skin’s Director and Producer
At a special screening, at the wonderful Coolidge Corner theater, of the dark, dangerous and beautiful Under the Skin director Jonathan Glazer and producer James Wilson were kind enough to show up at their film’s conclusion to…
Under the Skin Review
A woman, who looks an awful lot like Scarlett Johansson, pulls up next to you on the street corner in a white van, asks for directions, proceeds to somewhat flirt with you and asks you…
Scenery Theory: Goodfellas and The Trend-Line of 1990′s Cinema
Let’s wind the clocks a few decades back shall we? You’re Martin Scorsese coming off of one of the more tumultuous but lucrative decades in your career; starting with the tremendous critical and commercial success…
The Grand Budapest Hotel Review
Agatha Christie via the lens of Wes Anderson, what else do I need to say? The specific pool of actors, flat camera angels, quick pans, color pallet, handwriting, chapter headings, soundtrack, and quirky characterizations are…
The Top 10 Performances By Animated Characters
Upon being so taken after seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, I have found out that out of all film genres Animation is one of my absolute favorites. It was one of the first art forms…
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My 25 Favorite Movie Moments of All-time
To celebrate my recent birthday and Oscar Sunday my own way I decided to rundown the scenes, images, shots, characters and movies…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined the 1950′s: Top Ten
Before getting into the top ten here are the pervious…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined the 1950′s: Part 4
Here are the links to Part 3, Part 2, and Part 1…
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The Wind Rises Review
The Manhattan Project’s lead physicist John Robert Oppenheimer was asked a few years before his death about the true effectiveness of halting…
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Top Ten Movies of 2013
As I say farewell to the films of 2013 I find there is no one word to describe the past year in…
The 10…12 Greatest Performance-Driven Directors of the 21st Century
Distill the one thing needed to propel a movie down…
10 Great Post Cold War Spy Movies
In light of the calls for treasonous combative action and…
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The Past Review
Let it be said what tears people, relationships, apart most of the time are not the things said in anger… Further evidence as to why I don’t do best of lists right at the end of December. Director Asgahr Farhadi knows how to build evolving…
Her Review
(Arcade Fire’s Supersymmetry for Atmosphere) Astronaut Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors HAL. HAL 9000: I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid can’t do that… The technological singularity is defined as the point where Artificial Intelligence, A.I, grows and surpasses the intellectual bounds of its creators and…
Blue is the Warmest Color Review
Finding and discovering first love is a many splendid thing… until it isn’t At that impressionable age during the final years in high school, some young teens will began to realize all too well that nothing is going to be certain or given from here…
Upstream Color Review
As limitless as imagination, as unique as a human mind and as fragile as existence… A young man buys blue flowers and takes grubs from the soil in the pots; a young woman works in an office as visual artist; the man kidnaps the girl…
Fruitvale Station Review
This is a tough one, there is a reason why I’ve waited so long to get to this one. This has been on my ‘to do’ list for some time because it’s taken me a while to find the proper tact on how to handle…
The Wolf of Wall Street Review
Years ago in middle school my mathematics teacher did a whole section on Economics and Finance, a field trip was dedicated to going to the Chicago Board of Trade (The mid-west’s Wall Street you could say), I had to do a full report on my…
Short Term 12 (I got nothing for rhymes here, in Honor of Marcus’ Rap)
Everybody has had that sickening penetrating feeling at least once in his or her lives, that one of utter loneliness. That you are all alone in the world, with no one wanting to help or even listen while you’re crying for attention. Thus, we become…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined the 1950′s: Part 3
For some looks back here’s the preceding part 2, and the first installment with Part 1. So, there’s been a certain lacking of Hitchcock on this list let’s correct that now… 29). The Omniscient Gazing At Society Through The ‘Rear Window’ Alright, yes I think we…
The Top 50 Movie Moments That Defined The 1950′s: Part 2
Welcome back to the nostalgic cinematic way-back machine, you can take a look at the moments that got us here in part 1, so here’s the next 10 moments. Let’s get things started off with a touch of something dark and foreboding… 39). The Opening To Orson Welles…
Ed Harris 5X5, His Best and Worst Roles
Most movie-goers would probably equate the name Ed Harris to anger and rage, defining his many villainous turns in blockbusters. However, his career is much more than what he is well-known and infamous for. Whenever a role calls for an intense, steely gazed and completely…