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The 10 Best Films of 2010

The 10 Best Films of 2010

Luca Guadagnino's "I Am Love" I Am Love Luca Guadagnino’s astonishingly beautiful portrait of a woman torn between love and loyalty. A deep, layered, stylish work of cinema with all the passion and...

Jan 15, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong
Blogs

New Spider-Man Revealed

New Spider-Man Revealed

Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man Sony has released the first official photo from their new Spider-Man film. Andrew Garfield, who starred in “Never Let Me Go” and “The Social Network,” will don the...

Jan 14, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong
Essays

Marching through a blizzard at the bottom of the world: George Miller’s microcosmic penguin mythmaking

Marching through a blizzard at the bottom of the world: George Miller’s microcosmic penguin mythmaking

I don’t think there is a singular film-maker I’ve found myself having written more about than Australia’s own Dr. George Miller. And now, writing this, I’m still not quite certain of the best way to...

Jan 13, 2011 / Henry J. Baugh
Action/Adventure

Feelin’ IFFI and the Films That Now Matter

Feelin’ IFFI and the Films That Now Matter

The Goa Film Festival that was from the 22nd of November to the 2nd of December and I managed to attend the first five days. Unfortunately, I got sick just after the festival and couldn’t compile the...

Jan 12, 2011 / Kamayani Sharma
Drama

Loose Cannons: Small Expectations

Loose Cannons: Small Expectations

Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti, Ferzan Ozpetek) is an Italian comedy about Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio), a young man who returns home planning to announce to his family that he is gay. However, his...

Jan 8, 2011 / Alison Frank
News

Trent Reznor to score Fincher’s remake of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Trent Reznor to score Fincher’s remake of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Trent Reznor, the mastermind behind Nine Inch Nails, will be scoring David Fincher’s remake of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” The musician confirmed the news during a live interview with Jon...

Jan 8, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong
Features

Monsters director Gareth Edwards to take on Godzilla

Monsters director Gareth Edwards to take on Godzilla

Since picking up the rights to Godzilla from Japan’s Toho Co. in March, Legendary Pictures has been on the hunt for a director to bring the famous cinematic destruct-a-saur back to the big screen....

Jan 5, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong
Features

The Social Network named Best Picture by Online Film Critics Society

The Social Network named Best Picture by Online Film Critics Society

As a member of the Online Film Critics Society it is my duty and pleasure to vote in the OFCS Awards to honor the greatest achievements in the movies. This year’s winners probably won’t surprise...

Jan 3, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong
Drama

The pharma rep and the conventional comedy: A contextual reading of Little Fockers and Love and Other Drugs

The pharma rep and the conventional comedy: A contextual reading of Little Fockers and Love and Other Drugs

Maybe it’s a sign that healthcare issues have become a prominent part of the general American consciousness: I went to see two quite different Hollywood comedies and each featured a character who was...

Jan 1, 2011 / Alison Frank
Blogs

Online Film Critics Society Picks Nominees for 2010 OFCS Awards

Online Film Critics Society Picks Nominees for 2010 OFCS Awards

December 27, 2010 – The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international professional association of Internet-based film reviewers, has announced the nominations for its 2010 OFCS Awards. The...

Dec 27, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Drama

Rabbit Hole (2010)

Rabbit Hole (2010)

Adapted from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Rabbit Hole” ferries us down into the blackest void of parental despair and bravely leaves us without a sturdy rope to climb back...

Dec 27, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Drama

Casino Jack (2010)

Casino Jack (2010)

“Washington is like Hollywood, only without the pretty faces.” This, according to Kevin Spacey’s idealistic, wise-cracking super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff on the two-faced, backstabbing nature of...

Dec 22, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Features

The Tree of Life trailer

l Any time Terrence Malick decides to direct a film, it becomes an event, for film fanatics at least. Every one of his pictures has been called a masterpiece by at least a few prominent critics....

Dec 17, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Essays

‘I Am Love’ opens more than doorways

‘I Am Love’ opens more than doorways

The month of January is named after Janus, the Roman god of exits and entrances. Janus is most commonly depicted in ancient art as having two faces, one looking backwards while the other looks...

Dec 16, 2010 / Vanessa Graniello
Blogs

The Illusionist: The Obsolescence of the Magician

The Illusionist: The Obsolescence of the Magician

Sylvain Chomet’s animated film The Illusionist (2010) is based on a script by Jacques Tati, the famous French director and master of live-action physical comedy. The film’s lead character, a...

Dec 15, 2010 / Alison Frank
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