Compiled By Noah Mallin Continuing with our flashback to 40 years ago, here’s numbers 6 through 10 of the best movies of 1968. See 1 through 5 here. 6. Funny Girl The big musical was a dying breed in 1968 but still had a few big shots left (Oliver! was another hit in 1968). With [...]
My beautiful and charming wife has a soft spot for films of a romantic nature. Fittingly in honor of Valentine’s Day she has come up with her 10 favorite romantic films. So curl up with a loved one and max out your Netflix account with these fine choices: 1) Moulin RougeBaz Luhrmann’s eye-popping ear-bending musical [...]
Page in Juno Juno seems on paper like it belongs to the Judd Apatow family of films, bringing together as it does one preggo woman as in Apatow’s summer hit Knocked Up and the brilliant Michael Cera as in his other summer hit Superbad. What it actually turns out to be is a tour-de-force for [...]
I’m not the only critic to pick up on Daniel Day-Lewis’ oddball accent du jour in Paul Thomas Anderson’s powerhouse American epic There Will Be Blood. The first 15 minutes (or so) come accompanied by nothing other than Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s unsettling dissonant score. Thus, when Day-Lewis as ravenous, rapacious oil baron Daniel Plainview [...]
Washington tries to warn himself from taking a part in Deja Vu The temptation when writing a review for a bad time travel movie is to suggest that had the reviewer got hold of whatever doohicky or cosmic force that allows for such travel, then they would surely have erased the 2 hours (give or [...]
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