So before we go any further, this is Charlie: Don't worry, he's not mad. That's just his face. Well okay, he might have been slightly peeved about the fact that I was sticking a camera in his face, but for the most part looking snotty and annoyed with me was par for the course. And …
And just like that, I hit post #100. I realize that nobody else cares about that statistic other than me, but here we are. It feels like an accomplishment and I'm going to take it. And as I did with post #50 I decided to make this one more personal than usual. And I decided …
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) And we have finally arrived at the Top 25 Oscar winners and suffice to say, these are all just great films with very little separating them. To be honest I could move any of these movies up and down a couple of slots and not have …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 3 (#25-1)
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) Here is the continuation of my futile task of ranking all the Oscar winners. At some point in this list (somewhere in the mid-30s) the movies move from being decent to legitimately great and worthy winners of the prize. Even if they beat out another nominee …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 2 (#56-26)
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) In conjunction with the upcoming Academy Awards this weekend, I engaged in the daunting task of catching up with every Best Picture winner ever. While there were moments when this task turned out to be a slog (especially at the end, when my excuses for avoiding …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 1 (#90-57)
(Original Post on Nov. 17 2017. Updated to include latest MCU releases) In 2008 Marvel almost innocuously dropped Iron Man on the world to little hype or fanfare. I remember as a comic-book fan being much more excited for Christopher Nolan's Batman follow-up The Dark Knight and being much more lukewarm towards Marvel as their recent track-record …
Continue reading Ranking the Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies (Updated)
Ah yes, the romantic comedy. An oft-mocked genre that tends to rank low on the list of prestige genres. The genres suffers occasional attacks from the right because it apparently glorifies sex while it also has to endure salvos from the left because it paradoxically also seems to entrench regressive gender roles and sexual politics. …
Let's be honest: At least 75% of the fun of Oscar season is complaining about how the Academy got it completely wrong. And it is something that the Academy has done very often, providing us with endless amounts of fodder for articles such as these (really, I should be thanking them). Due to the sheer …
My recent traverse through my Criterion Collection for crime movies got me well and truly into a crime movie watching mood. In years past I usually spend January almost exclusively watching old film noirs (in what I have dubbed "Ja-noir-y") but due to the extenuating circumstances (read: my lack of planning) I didn't get to …
Paul Thomas Anderson is the great exegete of the modern American psyche. His films are portraits of broken people who are each in their own way unsatisfied with their lives regardless of the levels of success that they have attained. In his hands, these films are frequently unflinchingly intimate portraits of these people, even if …
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