Movies

It’s an interesting juxtaposition to watch The Road and The Book of Eli within a few days of each other. Both feature wandering, haggard A-listers and both take place in what very well could be…

The Book of Eli is an allegory, but not one you’d easily guess. Rather, I view it as a portrait of the slate of awful, half-finished, mangled winter movies we as moviegoers have to trudge…

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…