November hits the sweet spot of Fall releases, as the great films are poised for a strong end-of year run before awards campaigning goes into full effect. More than a few films opening this month are already garnering Best Picture buzz - I imagine the film taking home to top Oscar is in the mix here ...
Coming Soon: October
It's the (second) most wonderful time of the year - Fall Movie Season! Each year, I'm not entirely sure the season will deliver until I do some digging and drum up a whole host of films I want to see every weekend through the end of the year. 2015 is proving to be no exception, starting with ...
Watch This: Amy
She had an intimate relationship with music, like it was a person...she would die for it. In ten or twenty years, my kid siblings may come across Amy, the new documentary that chronicles Amy Winehouse's meteoric rise to fame in the first years of the millennium, and watch it much the way I recently ...
2014 [in films]
I saw a headline recently that the domestic box office fell 5% in 2014, the lowest number of tickets sold since 1995. It's not terribly surprising, what with the myriad ways one can see a film these days that don't involve heading out to a theater. But more, I have to wonder if the dip in ticket ...
197 hours on screen. Or so.
Welp, after a slow start in early 2014, I managed to end the year having seen seven more films than I did in 2013. I'm honestly not sure how I did it, especially when you factor in all the television series I fit in there, the travel and work and, you know, generally having a life. Before I get to ...