Poster, finally

February 13, 2013

Thank you, Academy, for waiting until February 12 – and twelve days before the Academy Awards – to release your official poster.

The design is not bad – a definite improvement from recent years, but you can do better. Look again at 2002.


Zero Dark Thirty

February 12, 2013

New review of Zero Dark Thirty. I never thought I’d say that a film that runs 2.5 hours deserves to win for Film Editing.


The Best Picture of 2012

February 3, 2013

Did you like Lincoln? Argo?

Try this – this is the movie of 2012 – Amour.


The Soundtrack to Our Lives

February 3, 2013

New review of “Waiting for Sugar Man“. This is a story for the ages, and the gold-standard example of what is a documentary.

Have you seen a documentary lately? I posit you have not. Not because you haven’t seen a film so classified, but because we have become lazy in our standards of what a documentary is. No commentary. No editorializing. No political or social message. Just a story – a story we all should see and hear.

And to the story itself: can you transform a generation, and a nation, and not even know? Watch this film and find out.

Bravo.