The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2010)
I haven't always been kind to the film adaptations of the Harry Potter books because they always seemed to be missing something. J.K. Rowling created...
Armchair Oscars – 2003
Best Picture THE WINNER: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Directed by Peter Jackson) The Nominees: Lost in Translation, Master and...
Armchair Oscars – 1986
Best Picture THE WINNER: Platoon (Directed by Oliver Stone) The Nominees: Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room With...
Louder Than a Bomb (2010)
I have to admit that before seeing Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel's documentary Louder Than a Bomb, I had never given much thought to rap...
Iron Man 2 (2010)
"Iron Man 2" is a curious misfire. Given that the original 2008 film pulled the superhero genre out of the cape and cowl doldrums and...
Green Zone (2010)
Green Zone is one the of cleverest war pictures that I have ever seen. More than any other film about the war in Iraq -...
The Lovely Bones (2009)
The Lovely Bones is a sick, ugly little movie about a girl who is raped and murdered and then spends her afterlife in an eternity...
