Scream

Scream

Watching the trailer I’ve already praised for Isn’t It Romantic I repeatedly thought “This is like Scream for romantic comedies.” So how well does Scream pull of parodying a genre while simultaneously being an example of a film in that genre? Quite well! Most of the...
The Wrestler

The Wrestler

After talking about that fun little movie that just came out, I’m traveling back to 2008 for a much-lauded film that really spoke to me. It was such a joy seeing a name talent the caliber of Darren Aronofsky direct a movie about professional wrestling, especially with...
What Women Want

What Women Want

I’ve given my thoughts on the remake and since I liked it I’m glad it’s already made Paramount a profit just from its domestic theatrical release! It’s nowhere near the smash What Women Want was though. Although the original wasn’t much...
Inocente

Inocente

As I alluded to in this post, Inocente was the only Oscar winning short film of 2012 I hadn’t seen in the theater when it came out. And it’s surprisingly hard to find now, only available to stream on iTunes. For the sake of this project I paid for the download though....
2019 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts

2019 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts

Time to discuss the last set of short film nominees. The documentary shorts are always the longest, so much so that sometimes the program is split into two separate releases! That wasn’t the case this year. Was the one shorts program worth the price of admission? Read...
Curfew

Curfew

So happy to write in detail about this movie. To elaborate on what I said in this post, the other nominees for best Live Action Short of 2012 and their plots were 1) Asad-a Somali boy learning to fish 2) Buckashi Boys-two young men growing up in Afghanistan 3) Death...