Where the Wild Things Are is a very complex movie, filled with highs and lows, darkness and light, reality and fantasy and wraps all of these concepts together in a way that feels so close to actual childhood that it viscerally cuts the audience down to their most basic elements. From the moment the trailer premiered it was clear that from a short, largely graphical children’s book, Spike Jonze and David Eggers were able to distill the essence of childhood and recreate the awkwardness, imagination, wonder, anger and joy that comes with trying to find your way in a world you are only coming to understand. Where the Wild Things Are is an unmitigated success and in unquestionably one of the best films of the year. Keep reading…
Today the sad, sad news broke that it’s confirmed: Jon Favreau will not be directing The Avengers movie. Why? I’m not sure. But there’s one thing I am sure of and that this: I’m sad. Keep reading…
October 12, 2009
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been finding myself surprised at the movie that people declare to be their “favorite”. I myself have the same problem. Generally people are surprised that I have even sifted through all the movies that I’ve seen and have declared one my “favorite”, but also at the movie that it is. I find so very often that people are usually incongruent with the movies they call their favorites that I made a list of my own just to see what’s on it. It’s a pretty dismal list, actually. Keep reading…
Michael Moore burst onto the screen 20 years ago with his groundbreaking film Roger & Me. In it he discussed the negative impact that the auto industry, specifically General Motors, had on the town of Flint, Michigan which is, incidentally, where Moore lives. Roger & Me exposed the economical implications of a town completely dependent upon one business for its way of life and brought it to us on a personal level when Moore showed us some of the 30,000 people who had lost their jobs. It was also the first time that we had seen the smart talking way in which he presents his argument or the kamikaze interview style we’ve become so familiar with. Roger & Me was revolutionary but soon Moore and his politics disappeared from the scene until Bowling for Columbine. Keep reading…
Erika was kind enough to send in her list of 10 Movies she thinks you should see before you die. (In no particular order…) Keep reading…
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