Hollywood has had a slight obsession with the apocalypse in recent months, with ‘Zombieland’, ‘2012′, ‘Knowing’, and ‘The Road’. Denzel Washington stars in the thriller ‘The Book of Eli’. In it, he portrays Eli, a man who walks across a post-apocalyptic America with only cannibals, thieves, and beggars left. He carries the last surviving copy [...]
Before ‘Leap Year’, Amy Adams had never been in a bad film. Sure, the parts ‘Julie and Julia’ starring her sucked, but the half with Meryl Streep was exceptional enough to lift it up. Sure ‘Underdog’ was an epic fest of crap, but she technically only voiced a character, and didn’t fully appear in it. [...]
Director Peter Jackson has, in the past several years, basically conquered Hollywood. He’s made some of the highest-grossing films of all time, including an 11-hour fantasy epic. His last 4 films have won a combined total of 20 Academy Awards and over $3 billion. Yet somehow, Peter cannot direct a cohesive story on a [...]
Hey. Soon this site will be flooded with lists of mine, including my picks for best of ‘09, worst of ‘09, the worst of the decade, and ultimately the best. But first, I’ll put out the films I want to see most this year.
10: The Social Network. One of my favorite directors, David Fincher (Fight [...]