The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Room (2015)
The first sounds we hear are breathing. Then a voice whispers “Go back to sleep.” Barely a light reaches the interior of the room and...
Blog: Are the Academy Awards racist?
Oh, what a monologue Chris Rock must be cooking up for this year’s Academy Awards. It is not a stretch to suggest that on the...
The Boy (2016)
To make a creepy doll movie takes a lightness of touch. You have to employ atmosphere, pacing, good editing, a good script, plus a doll...
Spotlight (2015)
We have progressed far enough now that we can easily look back at the turn of the millennium with a sense of wonder, reflection and...
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Picture in your mind the output of a Quentin Tarantino movie if it were written by Agatha Christie. Try and imagine “Ten Little Indians” wrapped...
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
It is difficult to be blasé about Star Wars if you happen to be one of the millions who have spent the last 40 years...
Steve Jobs (2015)
There was a time when, upon leaving the house, I never walked out without my wallet and my keys. After the revolution of Steve Jobs,...
