Movies

There are many talented composers working on films today, but there is no one that I find more spectacular than Clint Mansell. John Williams may have composed some of the most classic scores of our…

When you watch a crappy movie there’s always some character that pisses you off and you realize that you’d rather not see them at all.  But it’s rare when you watch a great film that…

It seems to be the cool thing to do to hate on Michael Cera these days. Everywhere I turn, the poor kid is lambasted as the most typecast actor in Hollywood, and that his “awkward…

Whether it’s Tony Montana snorting lines of coke the length of pool tables, Cheech and Chong puffing on some quality bud, Harry Goldfarb injecting himself with smack, or crack smoking on The Wire, mind-altering and…

There was a time when the term “vampire” was actually a cool thing. When “vampire movie” seemed like an event that you actually were looking forward to attending. That all changed one fateful day, however,…

Yesterday, Madison brought you his picks for the best of ’09, so now it’s my turn today. Our lists share a lot of the same films to be sure, but we do have different enough…

  I actually had a difficult time putting together and ranking the 10 best movies of the past year, but unfortunately it wasn’t because there were so many to choose from.  No, 2009 was a…

It’s not easy for a director to change genres this drastically. For Peter Jackson to go from King Kong and Lord of the Rings to The Lovely Bones would seem to be equivalent to Michael…

I did this once with Tim Burton, so why not again with the guy who’s just dominating right now, James Cameron? Cameron’s career is notable for two main reasons.  The first is that he simply…