TOP TEN FILMS: 2017

It was a very good year. (At the movies, anyway.)

Black & Blue: Justice Takes A Holiday In Bigelow’s Brutal ‘Detroit’

Fifty 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 directionContinue reading “Black & Blue: Justice Takes A Holiday In Bigelow’s Brutal ‘Detroit’”

Bear-Man, Or The Expected Tragedies Of Awards Season: ‘Son Of Saul’ & ‘The Revenant’

(Plenty of spoilers in this review… though you’ve probably heard most of them already.) Here’s a fun game of “Would You Rather?”: