Your Academy Awards Debrief

Well there we go people, the 85th Academy Awards have just wrapped up. The stars gave their all in a typical night of glitz, glamour and Jennifer Lawrence, and now we sift through the results and see where we as cinema-goers, nay our society, now stand. I have a proclaimed soft spot for the Hollywood Babylon, KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD! Rest assured, it is in a better place, and for that we have to thank JLaw. Jennifer Lawrence came, saw...

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85th Academy Awards Picks

The time is upon us, once again the films billed as the best of the year (2012) will compete for honor and glory in the eyes of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As we have yet to reach the time wherein nominees battle out for the prize in the Thunderdome (one day...), I have brought together my favorite categories and will give my predictions and comments on the 85th Academy Awards. Soon. Also props to me...

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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina (2012) - dir. Joe Wright Love, it is the feeling which no words can define, and no definition can capture its passion and beauty. Leo Tolstoy created a masterpiece with Anna Karenina, exploring the very core of love in an entrancing tale set against imperial Russia. Adapted over 20 times on the silver screen, 2012 saw director Joe Wright and Keira Knightley create a daring vision fit for the modern screen, though is bittersweet...

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Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - dir. Kathryn Bigelow After two amicable yet spirited debates over this film, I have decided to finally throw my hat into the ring and write my opinion on this film. I write this fully acknowledging the controversy surrounding it, to which I will try and address some of the finer arguments, and I hope to show why this is my pick for best film of 2012.  We open to a black screen, the words September 11th,...

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Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis (2012) - dir. David Cronenberg David Cronenberg is one of cinema’s foremost auteurs, but sets himself apart from his peers with his daring projects and controversial subject matter. Now with Cosmopolis, Cronenberg finally enters the 21st century, and has made perhaps the most peculiar film I have seen in years.  Cosmopolis sets its sights on the world wealth and capitalism, with Robert Pattison’s character Eric Michael Packer...

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The Dreamers

The Dreamers (2003) - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci The Dreamers is, along with Mulholland Drive and The Fall, the film I hold closest to my heart. In short, The Dreamers perfectly captures what it is to be a cinephile, a child of the silver screen, one of the insatiables. This film is ultimately about me. I digress. 1968, the world is in a state of radical change, where sex, politics and cinema collide. Matthew, a young American in...

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Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon (1975) - dir. Stanley Kubrick I begin by professing my utter adoration and admiration of director Stanley Kubrick. Long my favorite director since first viewing Spartacus at a young age, it is with my viewing of Barry Lyndon, to which some view as his meisterwerk, that I complete his oeuvre. Barry Lyndon follows the roguish travels of Irishman Redmond Barry, as he waltzes through 18th Century Europe through love, conflict,...

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