Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow was riding high in 2010. She just became the first female director to win Best Director at the Oscars over her ex-husband, and …
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Movie Review: Django Unchained
Revisionist history is a term that gets thrown around a lot, especially in the media. Quentin Tarantino uses those words as a challenge. Similar to …
Movie Review: Life of Pi
What audiences were waiting for: the cross between Cast Away, Contact, and Titanic. Life of Pi is a tremendous motion picture. It is equal parts …
Movie Review: Cloud Atlas
Watching Cloud Atlas feels like watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. In its time, 2001 was panned by audiences and critics alike; after a few generations, …
Movie Review: Argo
Argo is a top-notch political thriller. Most movies like this resort to some sort of violent conflict at the end, but Argo knows the suspense …
Movie Review: Looper
Looper is a wonderful motion picture. Writer/Director Rian Johnson, much like Christopher Nolan’s Inception, has been penning this script for a long time. The time …
Movie Review: A Separation
A Separation is a wonderful combination of genres rolled into one: courtroom drama, family conflict, mystery, and a dysfunctional institution story. Director Asghar Farhadi sets …
Movie Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin must have read Huckleberry Finn before he directed Beasts of the Southern Wild. The setups are almost identical: they feature a younger protagonist, …
Movie Review: The Social Network
Topics change, but themes do not. Worthy of a Shakespeare tragedy, along comes the Social Network, the adapted account of how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. …
Top 10 Movies for 2010
2010 has 3 of the best films of the 2010s. 2010s? I mean all time. Really, 3 bangers, including #3 on my all time list. …