my picks for tonight’s 89th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2016’s films)
Now updated with winners…
Denis Villeneuve
OFCS 2016 awards winners announced
Moonlight wins big…
AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced
Moonlight leads, with seven awards…
Arrival movie review: how to talk to aliens and expand your consciousness
Intelligent, intense, grownup science fiction that will thrill genre lovers and satisfy fans of moving human drama. A beautiful, thought-provoking film.
OFCS 2015 awards winners announced
Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…
Sicario movie review: lies, injustice, and the American way
The “War on Drugs” has never felt more like an actual war in this brutal, scathing condemnation of the lawlessness of the battle… on the “good guys” side.
The Double and Enemy trailers: doppelganger movies
Two movies about a man who discovers he has an identical double, and the identical double is up to no good. Is someone trying to drive movie lovers crazy?
Prisoners review: the unbearable darkness of being
Please see this movie. We need to let Hollywood know that there is, in fact, an audience for sophisticated drama for adults.
trailer break: ‘Polytechnique’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This week, the Toronto Film Critics Association named this film, by Denis Villeneuve, the best Canadian film of 2009. It’s about the mass shooting at the Montreal Polytechnique school in 1989 in which the shooter targeted women studying to be engineers, since he believed that feminism had … more…
