Brooklyn’s Finest, Antoine Fuqua’s latest down and dirty cop drama, opens with a line of dialogue that went something like “There’s right and wrong.  Then, there’s righter and wronger.”  The film tries to explore this theory, but in the end it’s just too boring for me to care about ethics or morals or anything other [...]

Tonight’s the night, the only awards show actually worthy of being liveblogged (yet I still liveblog all the others, go figure). Join me and my panel of experts, or whoever ends up showing up to help me out, as we tell you what to think about the Academy Awards. Because that’s what the Internet is [...]

This time of year, there are a lot of Oscar predictions, but I don’t follow many other awards shows, nor do I keep up with a lot of the inside gossip.  I did read an interesting NY Times article describing the hysteria around the race for an Academy Award, but in the end I don’t [...]

You know what day it is today, right? You don’t? It’s only the most important day in the history of all days. This is the day you will tell your children about, and they will tell their children about, and they will tell their children about, and so on and so forth until the zombie [...]

Life and laziness sort of got in the way, but I’ve finally made my Top Ten of 2009 list and SPOILER alert—Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will not be making the list.
I should mention the five Oscar-nominated films that I haven’t seen yet.  These are my unseen also-rans (“never-rans?”)—condolences to Il Divo (1), The Imaginarium [...]

I really liked A Serious Man. It was much better than the Coen’s previous effort; being more thoughtful and much funnier. It’s not just about some man and his midlife crisis, but about faith and perspective in 60’s suburbia. God plays a big role in the film, governing everyone’s lives for better or for worse, [...]

Man—life really got in the way… It’s already February and I still haven’t finished my Top Disappointments & Surprises or Top 10 Films of 2009…  Better bang this post out tonight (without pics) so that I can focus on that Top 10 list….
Five Disappointments
Public Enemies
Michael Mann directing Depp, Bale, Cotillard, Crudup, Ribisi, et al should [...]

Nobody is knocking over any shelves for the last copy of Pandorum. It had a low budget (40 mil) and a lousy theatrical run (10 mil), despite a decent ad campaign and wide release. Maybe it’s because it had to compete with Paranormal Activity, a much bigger movie that attracted all the remaining horror fans [...]

HEY. SO I FOUND OUT THIS NEW THING THAT’S GOING TO MAKE ME A MUCH BETTER WRITER THAN I WAS BEFORE. IT’S CALLED CAPS LOCK. HAVE YOU HEARD OF IT?
CAPS LOCK IS LIKE MAGIC, ONLY BETTER. YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED, BUT I’M USING IT RIGHT NOW. WHAT IT DOES IS IT MAKES LETTERS BIGGER, [...]

The Golden Globe Awards have always struck me as kind of half-assed Academy Awards, where everyone gets drunk. So here’s my half-assed Golden Globe liveblog. And yes, probably getting drunk. Irony!
Golden Globe Golden LiveBlog