Best Picture

And here it is – the mountain top – the Best film of the year. Epic. Ok, they have expanded the film this year to 10. ten. One-Zero. This is like every march when the NCAA toys with expanding the NCAA Basketball pool. It isn’t that there are more quality contenders – it just means [...]

Review #12 – The Messenger

Life can be inexplicably dark at times. All of us hit that time where we are at a low point; sometimes it is set into action by an event or chain of events, other times it is just for no other reason then simply “just because”. With the light times comes the dark. And by [...]

Review #10 – Invictus

I do not understand rugby at all. At all. It seems like a cool sport – Guys hitting other guys, a brutal, bruising sport played by hooligans and watched by gentlemen. A film about rugby is not a bad idea if people in America actually understood the sport – since we don’t, having the game [...]

Review #9 – Up in the Air

Bill Simmons (Page 2 writer for ESPN.com) equates different game situations to what he calls “Levels of Losing”, each one is a different level of loss that your own sports team goes through now and again. Specifically, there are (in his most recent update) 16 levels of loss, Ranging from the “Princeton Principle”, when your [...]

Review #7 – A Serious Man

As I sit, watching this 1960′s character (judging by the music, cars and styles, I would guess late 60′s) for about 2 minutes, a recurring question keeps coming in: Have you ever wondered what happened to Michael Douglas in the lead up to his explosion in “Falling Down”? The secret is: “A Serious Man” – [...]

Review #6 – Precious

With sadness comes hope. Thats the overwhelming sentiment I have about the film “Precious”, the story of an unfortunate incest survivor whose own father is the father of her own 2 kids. Layered amidst flights of fancy to escape the harsh realities she is trying to face, the protagonists struggles to find not only self [...]

Academy Awards Pre-viewing pleasures!

I am all atwitter (yes, I just said “atwitter”.  Get over it.) about this week.  First, it is Super Bowl week, a magical week where football comes to a magnificent head and blows its shoulder padded load all over sports fans from coast to coast.  Ask a football fan who they think is going to [...]