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: 2017Attention, please, gentlemen: 2017’s Best Actresses are not taking any more of your shit. It wasn’t planned this way. No one could have predicted the seismic events that hit Hollywood in the last quarter of 2017, beginning with Harvey Weinstein and continuing with seemingly everyone else. It’s much too soon for awards hopefuls to incorporate […]
Read More Molly & Tonya & Lady Bird, Oh My: The Women Of 2017The Martian shouldn’t feel like such a treasure, and maybe twenty years ago, it wouldn’t have. Its closest cousin, Apollo 13, was nominated for Best Picture in 1995, back when feel-good movies could still dominate both the box office and awards season — which is not to say that they always did, but feel-good guys […]
Read More Intelligent Life: Science Rules In ‘The Martian’(Movies discussed in this post: Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.) I had the makings of a fanboy. Things could very well have turned out differently for me, had I continued my worship of Batman and the T-Rex instead of turning my eye […]
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