CUAH Media Film Awards for 2017
Whew, hey, give yourself a pat on the back: you made it through 2018 awards season! Congrats to all the “winners,” nominated works and talent. Now then, onto the fun stuff. After honoring my favorite…
The Top 25 Films of 2017
From depths of the seemingly bottomless pit of absurdity, insanity, and strife that was 2017 came forth madness, hardship, struggle, social upheavals, and triumphs. In other words, it was quite a year, to put it…
2018 Sundance Film Festival Report
Happy Belated New Year! I haven’t posted in quite awhile it seems. I’m still watching movies of course just having trouble getting down to writing long form on even the ones I really want to for various reasons. I…
The Top 25 Films of the 21st Century (2001-present)
With a New York Times article last month detailing their staff’s picks for the 25 best films of this century thus far, many others online have felt the need to return the favor and list their…
Film Review: Song to Song
The cinematic Maestro conductor plays another symphony of emotions that hits all the right high notes and (intentionally) sour ones. 1969’s “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles. Now that’s a song forever etched in…
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The CUAH Media Awards For the Movies of 2016
Once again that time has come to evaluate the roster of movies from the last calendar year in the only way we know how…
Sundance Film Festival ’16: Premiere Weekend
Greetings from in the middle of the great snowy Rocky…
The Top 60 Movie Moments That Defined The 60’s: Part 3
And we’re at the halfway point in this generation defining…
Scenery Theory: On Depiction and Intent
Clint Eastwood’s latest war drama American Sniper is breaking box-office records in…
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Film Review: Silence
It’s easy to be a saint in Paradise – Capt. Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The opening to Martin…
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The Top 25 Films of 2016
So here we are again, another year has passed and we are well into the new Year. It had been a trying…
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My Awards for the Movies of the Year
With all the attention on all things movies tonight, I thought it would be fun to do my own roll call for the movies of the recent past year (Don’t know what to call them, The Jeff’s doesn’t really do the trick). My winners in BOLD, enjoy…
Top 10 Documentaries of 2014
With all the things concerning fictional narrative films out of the way for 2014, lets get to the non-fictional ones as there were several to take in, discover and enlighten. Not unlike the fictional narratives many of the best Documentaries focused on the Now, what are…
The Top 60 Movie Moments That Defined The 60’s: Part 2
We move on from Part 1 to Kubrick, Military Takeovers, Alienation, and Abstraction. A rather crowded line-up to be sure. Lets get started with empathizing with pedophilia! I apologize in advance. 50). Lolita Expresses Sexual Taboos With Unabashed Candor And Humor “How Did They Ever Make A…
Top 10 Supporting Performances of 2014
Thursday was the leading characters, today it’s the supporting players that amplify the onscreen story by giving the main characters something to play off of. Engaging the audience a few more layers by revealing more dimensions and shadings of the leading characters, and thusly the…
Top 10 Lead Performances of 2014
An outstanding year for film usually means an outstanding one for performances as well. First up are the lead roles that acted as our surrogates through many diverse and engaging narratives. From recovering depressives to battling mid-life crisis’s to tracking high-risk terror suspects to psychotics…
The Top 20 Movies of 2014
2014 has come and gone, another year in books, so as is movie reviewer tradition it is time to come up with a listing of the very best films that I saw in the past year. The end tally range from moody period-pieces to contemporary…
Foxcatcher Review
There is the scene in the trailer for Bennet Miller’s unbearably tense olympic wrestling docu-drama where multi-millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) walks into the training room with his sponsored wrestlers training together, and in his right hand there is a gun. The shot doesn’t…
Selma Review
Now, here’s the way to make a truly resonating Bio-pic, the type of ‘Prestige Drama’ that gets it. At the risk of going into spoiler territory I want to examine a scene late in Ava DuVernay’s topical and powerful Civil Rights Era Period Film Selma, which…
Inherent Vice Review
The very best movies of this recent past year concerned themselves with depicting life in the present; living in the here and now, whenever that “here and now” was. From the 60’s Poland to the 2000’s Austin, Texas. Enter auteur Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson who…
Nightcrawler Review
Making it in America: for the ‘if it bleeds; it leads’ crowd, AKA the current American media cycles. A satirical indictment of the media and its outlets has already had a go-around with Gone Girl earlier in the year, tackling the over-sensationalized aspects of nightly news, taking…