I don’t like sports movies. I hate boxing. I never connected with Rocky and I haven’t seen any of the sequels. But I’ll be damned if Creed didn’t manage to exceed expectations and be quite an entertaining movie. Four quick observations: 1) Michael B. Jordan is one of our finest young actors and I wish such great things… Read More Creed
Continued from my earlier post, this is my list of favorite Best Picture nominees so far this century. 50. Letters From Iwo Jima: Again, I’m of two minds here. On the one hand, Eastwood displays a surprising amount of humanity in relating this story from a Japanese perspective. I can’t think of another American war movie that… Read More Best Picture Nominees – The 2000s (Part 2)
I love lists–making them, reading them, arguing about them, etc. Indeed, I credit one list in particular for introducing me to film at a young age. So when it occurred to me that there have been exactly 100 Best Picture nominees so far in the 21st century, I thought it would be a good occasion… Read More Best Picture Nominees – The 2000s (Part 1)
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