more Film.com postings
• the all-new, expanded and improved TiVo This! (there’s a ton of Godzilla movies this week!) • a look at the HBO documentary Friends of God (P.S.: it’s scary!) Open thread away…
Month: January 2007
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 8, ‘Bobby’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Emilio Estevez makes an enormous leap as a filmmaker, nay, as an artist, with this powerfully emotional tribute to the influence of Bobby Kennedy… and at the same time laments the absence today of his like in the public realm. As an American who … more…
over at Film.com…
…here’s what I’m talking about: • maybe Apollo and Starbuck should just get a room already? • wrapping up the weekend box office • movie math is all negative numbers • I fall in love with Harry Dresden, wizard detective • my reaction to the Oscar noms And it seems that Film.com got a mention … more…
when everyone hates you…
…you must be doing something right. I simply must point out that in the comments following my review of Smokin’ Aces, I have been accused — accused, I tell ya — of being a “conservative Christian” (though not with such accurate spelling). I love my work…
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 9, ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: War is hell … except when it comes to war movies, which, when done with sensitivity and keen perception, offer some of the more provocative insights into what it means to be human — at the most fundamental level, where we’re stripped of cultural … more…
me in newspapers not quite everywhere
I got an email recently from Chuck, a FlickFilosopher.com reader, who wanted to know if I was aware that Ace Weekly, the alternative newspaper of Lexington, Kentucky, was running some of my reviews. Chuck was rather indignant, on my behalf: he figured this paper was swiping my stuff and hoping no one would notice. I … more…
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 10, ‘Happy Feet’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: C’mon, dancing baby penguins? You’d have to have a heart of stone not to find yourself wrapped up in delicious warm fuzzies by this movie. Cute overload! NO, SERIOUSLY, WHY?: Okay, managing to be this exceptionally cute without descending into goopy sentimentality would have … more…
2006 best-ofs: best actor, best actress
Maybe even more so than debating the best movie of the year, we love arguing over which actors gave us the most astonishing, most surprising, most riveting performances of the year. And that makes sense: their faces are ones we become most acquainted with when we watch a movie (as opposed to, obviously, the director’s … more…
Catch and Release (review)
A beautifully crafted film in all respects. The script, Grant’s own, is witty and wise, not reducible to catchphrases or pithy bon mots but twinging with pain and hope. And she creates an aching loveliness of psychic empty space…
2006 best-ofs: best documentary, best foreign-language film, best animated feature
People who love films tend to love all kinds of films, but there are those with more specific tastes. Whether you’re looking for based-on-fact newsiness, the high-flying spiritedness of animated movies, or the challenge foreign-language films in which the underlying cultural rules that form the story space may be alien to your experience, there were … more…
