The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Right from the start, this film reached for my heart and squeezed it SO hard. If I wasn’t actually crying, I felt like crying through this sweet film about a troubled high school boy who finds kindness with new, accepting friends. Life …
Despite some monster box office hits, like various sequels for Transformers, Twilight, and Harry Potter, the box office was down in 2011. People may have simply been staying home with their new phancy home theater systems, but it was also argued that there weren’t a lot of really good movies worth seeing. As I looked …
How to Train Your Dragon How to Train Your Dragon – OK, I admit it: I was kind of a weepy mess throughout this whole film. A boy and his dragon made for the sweetest friendship of the year, soaring far above all the other 3D family films. The Ghost Writer – With this witty …
Best of 2009 Where the Wild Things Are Where The Wild Things Are A Single Man Watchmen District 9 Inglourious Basterds An Education Moon Avatar Up in the Air Observe and Report Moon Worst of 2009 Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Easy Virtue Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes To Jail Obsessed The Informers Missed of …
A Single Man A Single Man – Gorgeous, swoon-worthy, heartbreaking, and uplifting. Colin Firth anchors this quiet, poetic day-in-the-life of a man who has been shattered by his lost love. Little Soldier – A mentally effed-up soldier returns home from war to work for her dad, becoming the driver and bodyguard for her papa’s number-one …
88 Minutes 1. 88 Minutes. I’ve seen a lot of bad thrillers, and I’ve loved a lot of bad thrillers… but I have never loved a bad thriller as much as I love 88 Minutes. It’s hilarious from start to finish, from the moment Al Pacino’s raggedy wig is introduced, to the moment Leelee Sobieski …
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Let the Right One In 10 movies that I really liked in 2008: Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) – Though other vampire movies got a lot more attention and more box office (*cough* Twilight *cough*), this somber, melancholy, and strangely sweet Swedish film made a love story between a 12-year-old …
No Country for Old Men – This perfectly-made Coen Brothers film astonished me with its dusty, Texan look, its wry and sad tone, its shocking violence, and its unresolved ending. If this wins Best Picture, it will be the first time in years (if not ever) that I completely and utterly agree with the Academy. …
Romance and Cigarettes.. The most delightful and original movie of 2007 was made in 2005. It breaks the rules, and your heart. Silly, but never ridiculous. There Will Be Blood. P.T. Anderson’s epic oil drama explores human darkness as black as, well, oil. Daniel Day-Lewis, man. Black Snake Moan. Perfectly dirty, sexy, and shocking. Possibly …
Here we are at the end of another lackluster year at the movies. Out of all the releases in 2006, I was passionate about seeing only three: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Lake House, and Rocky Balboa. I watched Pirates twice, bought a t-shirt, a key chain, and two boxes of Pirate …