Though 2014 wasn't a remarkable year for Hollywood, 2015 is looking good. Every entertainment website on the internet, whether of note or not, has already listed their most anticipated movies for the year, so I shan't add my voice to the chatter. (I agree with most of them anyway. Besides, if you read my blog often enough, you already know what film I want to watch the most this year.)
Summer is over and fall is here, which means we're starting the awards season part of the year where really really good movies all come…
Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey bantering on stage at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards The Primetime Emmys were held yesterday, and it went pretty much…
Director and producer Steve McQueen celebrates after accepting the Oscar for best picture at the 86th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood…
Edit: Updated with winners below. Read my review of the ceremony here. Before the Oscars air in a few hours, let me take a shot…
August: Osage County quietly holds your attention until you realise that you are not just perfunctorily sitting through it, as you would sit through a family gathering that you have to be at -- you really are invested in what happens to this family.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting the 71st Golden Globe Awards I love watching award shows. Not so much for the awards, but for the jokes,…
When a movie spends its first three minutes on Christian Bale carefully arranging his sparse hair into a comb over, with his shirt unbuttoned to show off a paunchy stomach, you know somehow that plot isn't its biggest concern.
Just as Schindler's List is the first to come into mind when people think of films about the Holocaust, 12 Years a Slave will go down in cinematic history as that film for slavery.
Very few movies nowadays truly deserve the title "cinematic masterpiece"; but Gravity is one of them. You have to go to the cinema to view it to appreciate just how much of a masterpiece it is, and you have to watch it in 3D -- preferably in IMAX, but definitely in 3D. (And I'm speaking as someone who hates watching things in 3D.) Watching it in any other form -- on TV, on your computer; or even worse, your smartphones and tablets -- would be to rob yourself of an experience that movies have been trying to build themselves up to since the very beginnings of cinema: To immerse its viewers in an experience so akin to reality you feel you are amongst the characters on screen in that very moment.
