The Best of the Aughts, ctd. – The Action, The Fantasy, The Adventure
This grouping of films is mostly of the action/adventure variety, but with a couple of inclusions that don’t quite fit the bill. Hence the “fantasy” designation. Here is probably where you’ll find some of the most dubious choices of my favorite films of the decade.
Kill Bill and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of [...]
Real Time Thoughts on the Oscar Ceremony
I’m just so thrilled to be watching the Oscars for the first time since 2005 that I’ve decided I’m going to post some thoughts as they occur to me while I watch (as long as I have access to this live stream anyway). Also, I’m watching this on my own with no one to talk [...]
Oscar Predictions
These are my full predictions (after the jump) for the awards show of awards shows coming Sunday night. As of this writing, among the main feature films nominated, I haven’t seen Crazy Heart, Il Divo or The Last Station. I’ve also only seen 3 of the foreign language films, 2 of the documentary features [...]
The best of the aughts, ctd. – The Broad Comedies (Part II)
Following on from my previous post plotting my favorites of the decade, here are the remaining comedies:
The Hangover (2009) dir. Todd Phillips – A Las Vegas bachelor party gone out of control. This could have been a generic Hollywood comedy. But somehow it transcends the genre. It’s so well written and acted. The first of [...]
A Correction to a Real Error, or Simply a Regret?
There’s this wonderful correction in the Times Arts Beat blog:
An earlier version of this post misquoted Mr. Remnick on his comparison between the book and a New Yorker article he had previously written. He said the book would not be a “pumped up” version of the article; he did not say that it would not [...]
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