X-Men: Days of Future Past movie review: time for hope
With its time-twisting plot, sci-fi soapiness, powerful humanism, and to-die-for cast, this is the summer blockbuster done with elegance and heart.
Michael Fassbender
Frank movie review: the heart of artness
A bitter dramedy of creative desperation that has something sneakily marvelous to say about what it takes — and what it doesn’t — to be an artist.
why movies like Under the Skin and Nymphomaniac are not feminist
These films act like what it means to be a woman is purely about sex and bodies, purely about interacting with men in no other way than a sexual one.
my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards
Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
the Online Film Critics Society 2013 film awards winners
12 Years a Slave is our big winner…
The Counsellor review
Almost, but not quite, hilariously demented — if accidentally so — drama about sex and death, and why not to get involved with drug cartels.
1 (aka 1: Life on the Limit) review (London Film Festival)
Action packed, with tons of amazing archival footage, but if you don’t already have an interest in Formula 1, it’s unlikely you’ll find one here.
The Counsellor trailer: don’t do drugs
Don’t do drugs, people. Don’t sell drugs, don’t move drugs, don’t hang out with drug dealers, don’t work with drug dealers. Sheesh.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of May 18-24 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Rise of the Guardians (trailer)
Hugh Jackman as a badass Easter Bunny? I love this already.
