Top Ten Films: 2017
It was a very good year. (At the movies, anyway.)
Read More Top Ten Films: 2017It was a very good year. (At the movies, anyway.)
Read More Top Ten Films: 2017Fifty years is a long time. Unfortunately, it has not been long enough to distance America from the depicted in Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit. There’s Motown music in the background and the cars look old, but otherwise, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single moment of the movie that doesn’t crackle with contemporary relevance. Bigelow’s direction […]
Read More Black & Blue: Justice Takes A Holiday In Bigelow’s Brutal ‘Detroit’Continuing my retrospective Top 10 lists… Okay, so this was the year the Oscars got on my nerves for announcing ten Best Picture nominees. (And judging by what was included in those ten, I think we can all agree that I was right to be irked… which is some vindication, at least.)
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