Well the last few weeks have been chock-full of people talking Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, and all the other big ticket Oscar contenders. If you’re like me, maybe you’d like to take a step back from the madding crowd...
I decided to make this a list of my ten favorite movies of 2012, the only thing I believe I am fully qualified to rate is my own enjoyment. I thought 2012 was a good year of movies so I...
2012 was a pretty damn good year in film — though I wasn’t totally aware of this until I sat down and tried to figure out my top ten films of the year. There were a few films that I...
There were a lot of movies that deserve applause from 2012 and there are many movies I really liked. Indeed, I had quite a hard time deciding which ten movies would make up my Top 10, something people seem to...
First, eligibility issues. I live in West Virginia, where we are lucky to get any of the cream of the crop within the calendar year it was released. However, my rules for top 10 lists have traditionally included any film...
10. The Dark Knight Rises Pity Christopher Nolan—that poor, poor highly acclaimed millionaire. The director succeed just a little bit too much with his previous Batman film, Dark Knight Original Recipe, thus putting himself in an unwinnable position. But despite...
It’s that time of year again, friends, to talk of things award and nomination. Yes, the ever-churning onslaught of Oscar season, which has expanded outwardly towards dozens of regional and national institutions just dying to give another award to the...
Insofar as there’s no such thing as a “bad year” for movies, the process of whittling down dozens of films (in my case, in this year, 139) to a mere ten “best” features is sort of an impossibility, but, as...
The disparity between a person’s public face and their private self is not one that many filmmakers even acknowledge, let alone let entire films spring from that, but then, Abbas Kiarostami is not a typical filmmaker. Feeling no obligation to...
As a movie nerd, I have a love-hate relationship with box office. Part of me says that it’s unimportant and drives films further away from taking risks and being artistic and more toward being economically safe and cheap thrills for...
