The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction is the most obnoxious film you’ll see all year. It’s loud, dumb, incoherent and endless. And yet, while it’s...
The Legend of Ghostbusters: 30 Years of Mass Hysteria.
You can’t fake comedy. It either works or it doesn’t and no one can know until the movie is finished that it doesn’t work. There...
Maleficent (2014)
The first thing you notice are the horns. They’re impressive. They rise at least a foot off of Angelina Jolie’s head, twisting and turning like...
Godzilla (2014)
The most tickling moment in Godzilla comes when we first see the creature. He's revealed slowly; first a shot of his foot, then his hip,...
Devil’s Knot (2014)
Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot is wholly unnecessary. Here is a fictionalized recreation of the brutal 1993 murders of three elementary school boys from West Memphis,...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
I’ll be honest, I haven’t always been kind to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that opened with 2008’s Iron Man. Save for the original Iron Man...
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...
