Oscar Picks for the 81st Year of the Event
Here are my picks, Should win is my pick from the nominees, not necessarily my favorite, just fyi. Except for best song, gave some credit to where it was due. Best Picture * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button * Frost/Nixon * Milk (Should Win) * The Reader * Slumdog Millionaire (Will Win) Best Director […]
08 Year In Review
Take a look at what we thought were the best movies of the year in 2008.
Behind The Scenes – I’m On A Boat by The Lonely Island
The guy’s from The Lonely Island have done it again! Another incredible music video, for one of their cleverly written and hilarious songs – I’m On A Boat (Ft. T-Pain). Go behind the scenes with The Lonely Island Crew – Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone – and T-Pain, to see how they made […]
He’s Just Not That Into You
This dramedy that is being sold as some silly romantic comedy is actually pretty serious and interesting look at relationships that works for the most part, outside vindicating the failures of some its characters in the end and warping young girl’s minds. The film follows an ensemble of intertwining characters and couples, for instance Jennifer […]
Coraline
Henry Selick’s latest stop motion adventure is his most beautiful yet and while after a first viewing it isn’t my favorite of his work, there is definitely a lot of room for this one to grow on a second and third go around. Coraline and her family have just moved into an apartment up in […]
Notorious
This biopic about the legendary rapper Notorious B.I.G. brings nothing new to the genre and plays it pretty safe with it’s main characters history, but the result is still an entertaining look at the man’s rise to fame. ‘Biggie’ was born Christopher Wallace, and he was raised by a single mother in Brooklyn where he […]
Che
This epic biopic about the Argentinean revolutionary is engaging, informative, and includes a phenomenal portrait and portrayal of this extraordinary individual by Benicio Del Toro. Che Guevara was a philosophizing Marxist doctor who felt that his Latin American people have been oppressed for too long and that a revolution by the people was the only […]
Updated: Why You Shouldn’t Think Bale is off his Rocker
Update: Hopefully Bale’s words will put this word to rest, though Letterman’s phone call bit was pretty good, as was James Lipton’s reenactment. “The thing I really want to stress is that I have NO confusion what-so-ever. I was out of order beyond belief. I acted like a punk. I regret that and there is […]
