the 85th Academy Award nominees
With links to my reviews. I’ll be adding reviews of the last few films I haven’t yet covered between now and the Oscars.
Quentin Tarantino
question of the day: What do you think of the Golden Globe winners (and losers)?
Feel free to talk about the TV side as well, if you like…
Django Unchained (review)
Quentin Tarantino spins a dark fantasia of the pre-Civil War South that is hilarious, ferocious, shocking, and wise, sometimes all at once.
question of the day: What makes a movie “modern”?
Is it the use of CGI? Is it blockbusterness (or bucking blockbusterness in the age of blockbusters)? Is it just about being produced after a certain date, and if so, when did the “modern” era of film begin?
if Shakespeare wrote about the modern English royal family (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: What actor/director team-ups would you like to see?
Terrence Malick with James Franco? Woody Allen with Clive Owen? Quentin Tarantino with Kate Winslet? And what kind of project would your dream team do?
question of the day: Is the rise of the geek a good thing for movies, or a bad thing? (Or is it too early to tell?)
Are the geeks directing Hollywood, or is Hollywood just learning how to better use the geeks?
‘Harry Potter’ beats up ‘Star Wars’; Michael Caine, psychic author; TV getting gayer; more: leftover links
Plus: the deaths of Stephen J. Cannell, Sally Menke, Gloria Stuart, and Tony Curtis; Armond White is at it again (and so are his adversaries); Chris Noth thinks critics killed Sex and the City; and on and on…
wtf: Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion, and so it must be favoritism?
Almost instantly on the heels of the news of Coppola’s win came grumblings that she only won because the jury president was Quentin Tarantino. Whom she once dated.
cinematic roots of: ‘Machete’
In Machete, a former Mexican federale (Danny Trejo) hiding out in Texas takes on The Man who wants to bring down his Hispanic brothers and The System that perpetuates social injustice. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
