2012: The Year In Film

2012 was a stupendous year for cinema from my perspective.  There were certainly some abysmal lows, but for the most part, the highs were hi...

Django Unchained

The law of diminishing returns has caught up to Quentin Tarantino with a vengeance on Django Unchained, a sloppy, irresponsible and unarguab...

The Hobbit And Jack Reacher

I recently wrote up Jackson's LOTR series ahead of The Hobbit's release and concluded by expressing my tempered excitement to retur...

Frankenweenie, Paranorman, The Raven And Ted

Thanks to Netflix and Amazon's illustrious streaming services, I was able to take in Paranorman, The Raven and Ted this past weekend.  W...

Killing Them Softly

Andrew Dominik grabbed my attention quite forcefully with Chopper over a decade ago.  I was fairly obsessed with that film for a good long w...

Life of Pi And Brave

                                                            I've never been head over heels in love with Pixar like most.  For the life ...

Skyfall

The new James Bond film is breathtaking to look at, very well acted and book-ended by two of the more stupendous action set-pieces ever put ...

Cloud Atlas

It goes to show you how malleable a thing expectation can be, especially when it comes to film.  I recently bemoaned being compelled to see...