BIRDMAN, no doubt, is one of the best films of the year. It has originality, drama, effects, comedy… and some very good acting as well as excellent cinematography. Upon seeing it a second time, nuances surface and anticipated humor or...
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Chris Rock has crafted a great comedy out of a journalist’s purse essentials, wedding bling, stuff people do on the side, and drunken judgment. Simple, classic structure, good payoffs and laughs. More than interesting. Like this: Like Loading…
Where Is That Interpreter When You Need Her? The Academy just announced their short list for the category of Best Foreign Language Film for the Oscars. Six European (three east, two west, one half Europe/half Asia), two Latin American and...
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Over Thirty Downloadable Screenplays – Award Season 2014. Including Nominated Screenplays for Oscars 2015 Before they are bestowed with tinsel, screenplays must be readable. This year we have some interesting ones to boot. Standouts are the one camera sequence film...
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THE 20th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS. Over 300 nationwide movie critics from television and radio have their say in these awards. That is more votes than in the Golden Globes, but with no big hype. This is the last...
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Some Snubs and Some Pushes from SAG and the Globes. On two consecutive days, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, we got the first peer reviewed nomination list and the one from that odd group that is neither critic, insider...
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AFI has The List. Last year, seven out of nine Oscar nominated films were in the 2013 American Film Institute Top 10 Movies of the Year List. The other two, Dallas Buyers Club and Philomena, progressively built momentum after early...
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The Los Angeles Film Critics Association picks for 2014. A noted Los Angeles film critic allowed his colleague from his own publication of record to review Boyhood, in essence because he didn’t want to rain on the parade. Given the...
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Oh, All The Things You’ll Learn on The Internet. Jake Gyllenhaal’s nightcrawling Louis Bloom is mesmerizing to watch. Not since Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs has a character been so amorally fascinating. The film...
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Keeping Up with Warm Traditions. “Select knowledgeable film enthusiasts, academics, filmmakers, and students in the New York metropolitan area” (Wikipedia) are members of the National Board of Review. This organization has fostered the art of film since 1909 and is...
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