They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for February, 2014
Armchair Oscars – 2013
Best Picture THE WINNER: 12 Years a Slave (Directed by Steve McQueen) The Nominees: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, her, Nebraska, Philomena, The Wolf of Wall Street MY CHOICE: her (Directed by Spike Jonze) My Nominees: American Hustle (David O. Russell), (Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche), Fruitvale Station (Ryan Cooglar), Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón), […]
RoboCop (2014)
The remake of Robocop is a colossal miscalculation. I’m all for remakes that change up the original material, but this movie does it in such a way as to drain all the juice out of the material until we are left with a dull, boring, lifeless bag of sand. Let’s put it this way, that […]
The LEGO Movie (2014)
“The LEGO Movie” is a happy and exhilarating ball of fun. It’s a bright, colorful, quick-witted adventure that stretches the animated form as far as it can possibly go, spinning its characters into other dimensions and other realms. In short, it does exactly what animation is supposed to do. It plays around in a magical […]
