The 2017 Biggie Awards (and my Top 10 & Bottom 5 of 2016)
The 28th Annual Biggie Awards for the love of movies. Celebrating achievements in film for the year 2016 So 2016 has come and gone. A year I had big hopes […]
The 2016 Biggie Awards (and My Top 10 & Bottom 5 of 2015)
The 27th Annual Biggie Awards for achievements in film for the year 2015 2015. Goddamn. “Weird” doesn’t even begin to describe it. In my view, this was the weakest year […]
Jurassic Park & Me: 20 Years Later
Chills. My first viewing of Steven Spielberg‘s Jurassic Park, on June 11, 1993, at the age of 13, at a sold out show in the biggest and best movie theater […]
The 2013 Biggie Awards (& My Top 10 of 2012)
The 24th Annual Biggie Awards aka The Biggies for achievements in film for the year 2012 I’ll be the first to admit I had unfair expectations for 2012. Given the […]
The Case Against ARGO (& why the Oscars matter to me)
I shouldn’t be writing this, but I’m fed up. I’m fed up with Argo sweeping every major award this season. More than being fed up, I’m frustrated. I simply do […]
Reaction: J.J. Abrams as STAR WARS director
“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.” I anticipated that it wouldn’t take long after the announcement of Michael Arndt as Episode VII‘s screenwriter that we’d have a decision on […]
Review: LINCOLN
I typically don’t do a full review for a movie unless there were several things I liked and didn’t like. I like to share the good and the bad. Lincoln, […]
A New Hope: George Lucas gives up control over STAR WARS
October 30, 2012: a date that will live in infamy. I keep re-reading the title to this post. I had to double check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t […]
Ten Actors & Filmmakers I Want Back from the Dead
I don’t know how I got the idea for putting this list together. Every now and then, I’ll think about actors or filmmakers who died too young, and I can’t […]
The 2012 Biggie Awards
The 23rd Annual Biggie Awards aka The Biggies for achievements in film for the year 2011 MMXI (that’s 2011 in Roman numerals, noobs), it was a strange year at the […]
Can We Talk About the Second Tintin Trailer for a Minute?
For reference purposes, watch this (switch video quality to 720p) before reading ahead: I’ve written a lot here and there about my lack of excitement for The Adventures of Tintin, […]
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY #3
I really want In Time to be grrrrrreat! In Time (in theaters this Friday, October 28!) is a film I’m very much looking forward to seeing. Have been for a […]
Epic Review for an Epic Fail: TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
A Film Well, that’s the last time I put a Michael Bay movie as my “most anticipated movie of the year.” Lesson finally learned. Movie gods, I surrender! I used […]
Mo-Cap Dies, Robert Zemeckis is reborn?
This past weekend, while many moviegoers were out seeing Battle: Los Angeles ($35.6 million), Rango ($22.6 million), Red Riding Hood or The Adjustment Bureau, what Hollywood didn’t expect was that […]
2011 Oscar reactions (and more!)
Welcome to my post-mortem to the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. I say post-mortem because a lot of what happened on that show has left me dead inside. So let’s get […]
My Ten Most Anticipated Movies of 2011
2011, aka The Nolan Off-Year. Christopher Nolan has been releasing a movie every other year since 2006, so while we wait for his 2012 Batman finale, The Dark Knight Rises, […]
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