7 years ago
The Lego Movie 10
“A LEGO Brickumentary” Feels More Like A Commercial
LEGOs are the little toy that could. What began as the brainchild of a Danish carpenter in the 1940s has gradually grown into a corporate powerhouse that generates $4 billion annually in revenue. The signature plastic blocks and yellow figurines are popping up...
Read more →
Whole Wide World: Living in a Film
Charlie Kaufman once said, “I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night…” Who else but someone as imaginative as Kaufman to say this, the creator of such seemingly real and tangible worlds like the ones in Being John Malkovich and Synecdoc...
Read more →
Opening Acts 2/16/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
1. I Went On A First Date To See Fifty Shades of Grey And It ...
Read more →
A Cinephile’s Survival Guide to February
As assuredly as Punxsutawney Phil will crawl out of his hole every February 2nd and declare it spring (or six more weeks of winter), the second month of the year also brings upon all of us some of the worst box office weekends on the calendar. Known as a dumpi...
Read more →
Opening Acts 1/8/2014
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
David Cronenberg Says Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrecking Film Critic...
Read more →
LVFCS Goes for “Birdman” Down the Line
Boyhood has swept a majority of critics awards this last week, but today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society put their chips behind Fox Searchlight's Birdman, awarding the film seven awards for best picture, best director, best actor, best screenplay, cinematog...
Read more →
Edgar Wright Shares His Favorite Flicks of 2014
The New York Film Critic's Circle released their picks for the best films of 2014 this morning, but I'm going to focus on the selections from the director of Shaun of the Dead and The World's End instead. Edgar Wright sat down with Esquire's Emily Zemler to di...
Read more →
District Mined: The Gerrymandering of Contemporary Cinema
While concerned citizens and political journalists agonized over the fate of the Senate in the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, there was a good reason no one was talking about the fate of the House: Due to the gerrymandering of Congressional distri...
Read more →
Halftime Report: The Best Movies of 2014 So Far
The year has now half passed us by, which marks a good opportunity to take stock of what it's offered cinematically so far. Releasing a "best of" list for half a year may seem like clickbaiting, and perhaps it is, but it's no more so than any other kind of lis...
Read more →
The Smart Dumb Films of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
If Phil Lord and Christopher Miller can be defined by any one thing, it is their ability to turn flimsy properties into unexpected hits. Their first feature-length directorial project, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, an adaptation of the eponymous children’...
Read more →
