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Modern Love: ‘Like Crazy’ And ‘Weekend’ Get It Right
(Movies discussed in this post: Like Crazy, Weekend, Crazy Stupid Love, Friends With Benefits, No Strings Attached.) When it comes to movie romances, there are basically two kinds — real and unreal....
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Trailer Trash: I’m Gettin’ Hungry
Now that we’ve seen Harry Potter defeat Voldemort on the big screen, and Twilight has one more terrible cinematic endeavor to taunt us with, the film industry is looking for the next franchise to drive...
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Yay Or Neigh?: Spielberg Ponies Up Two New Family Films
(Movies discussed in this post: War Horse, Attack The Block, X-Men: First Class, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Paul, Super 8, The Adventures Of Tintin.) From The Artist to Midnight In Paris to...
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‘Separation’ Anxiety: A Tense Iranian Drama Goes For The Gold
(Films discussed in this post: Trespass, Boy Wonder, A Separation, Passion Play, Tuesday After Christmas, The Trip, The Double, The Beaver.) This is my 100th post in this blog, and coincidentally, this...
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Starving For Attention: Let The ‘Games’ Begin!
Event movies are rare these days. Most films that studios would have you believe are “events” are anything but — sheep in wolves’ clothing. They hardly give us a reason to go to the theater at all,...
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Rewriting ‘The Hunger Games’: Five Fixes To Make It Flawless
I, like the majority of the western world, saw The Hunger Games on opening weekend. It had been nearly a year since I’d read Suzanne Collins’ book and I hadn’t yet started on the sequels. (I’m doing...
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The 7 Most Anticipated (And Least Obvious) Fall Movies
As a kid, I got excited for summer movie season, because it brought sequels, superheroes, dinosaurs — that kind of thing. But the past few summers haven’t given us more than one or two blockbusters...
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‘Silver’& Gold: A Kooky Romcom Aims To Woo The Academy
Bradley Cooper first became a household name in The Hangover, and ever since, has almost exclusively played jerks. He’s good at that. I’m not even sure the characters are written as jerks, but somehow,...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2012
It’s Oscar time! As usual, the Academy Awards are poised to make some very wrong decisions this year. So as usual, I am prematurely correcting them by releasing my Top Ten of the year. That year is...
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Not-Oscars 2013: The Year’s Best Performances
(Originally published at JustinPlusSeven on January 10, 2013.) You, dear reader, have the honor of reading this in the future, after the Oscar nominations have been announced. But I am writing from...
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Russell Does The ‘Hustle’: An All-American Ode To Bullshit
Hey, Academy, are you paying attention? But of course you are! Here’s a movie featuring a whole bunch of last year’s Oscar nominees, including several past Oscar winners, made by a guy who’s made two...
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Catching Heat: The Warmest Women Of 2013
(Films discussed in this post: Blue Is The Warmest Color, The Heat, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Drinking Buddies, Enough Said, The Invisible Woman.)Women are so hot right now. Again. Or… still. No...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2013
Hollywood is obsessed with money, I say. Duh, you think in response. But hear me out. In 2013, Hollywood was particularly obsessed with money. Not just with making money, but with telling stories about...
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The Not-Oscars 2013
It’s the morning of the Oscar nominations, and I’m not upset. This is weird. All the films I wanted to see nominated for Best Picture are. All the actors I hoped to see receive nominations for this...
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Hard In The City’s “Best Of Google” Volume 3
Happy New Year! This little blog of mine has existed for a little over three years now, and you know what? The more I blog, the more I realize what ignorant freaks the human race can be, thanks to the...
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‘Mother’ Lover: Aronofsky’s Defiantly Divisive Antidote To The State Of...
How to review a movie like Mother? Honestly, it’s probably best not to try… but here goes. Darren Aronofsky’s films usually inspire debate. From the manic dread of Requiem For A Dream to the...
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