So it’s 2010 huh? Pardon my surliness, but didn’t ya think the world would be a bit more futuristic by now? I mean, according to BACK TO THE FUTURE our cars should fly in six years. Anyone else think that ain’t ever gonna happen. Still we’re turning a page…not only on a year but on…
Decade pt. x ( Top Five 00’s Movies – 2009 )
I might have already said this, but it bears repeating…I cannot be happier to see the page turn on 2009 at the movies. To paraphrase a friend, it has been a year of leftovers and holdovers. remember that pesky writer’s strike two years ago? This year at the movies was the fallout of letting the…
Decade pt. ix ( Top Five 00’s Movies – 2008 )
Unreal. I have only two more entries to go in my Decade series, and the next one will be summing up the year at hand. Where does the time go?? Looking back at the cinematic yearbook from just one year ago, I can’t help but feel slightly saddened – because 2008 was such a brilliant…
Decade pt. viii ( Top Five 00’s Movies – 2007 )
I’m fighting off some post-Vegas jet lag this morning. Thus, I am calling in my last post-dated blog entry. Yes gang, starting tomorrow, I’m back to posting live. It doesn’t hurt that today was on tap to be the next entry in my Decade Series…and it also doesn’t hurt that today’s entry is the first…
Decade pt. vii ( Top Five 00’s Movies – 2006 )
With another month gone, it’s time for another entry in my Decade Series, with 2006 being the next year up. This was perhaps the biggest year of the decade for indie titles, with movies like BABEL, THE QUEEN, and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE winning wide acclaim. Unfortunately, it also started a downward slope for indies, as…
Decade pt. vi ( Top Five 00’s Movies – 2005 )
Wow – time flies! I’m already in the back nine of my Decade Series, looking back at the best films of the last ten years. It was the year Catholics mourned the death of a Pope. It was the first time in 86 years that the Stanley Cup wasn’t awarded. And it was the year…
Decade pt. v ( Top Five 00’s Movies – 2004 )
I’ve argued in the past, that in my lifetime, 1994 and 1999 were two of the best years at the movies. When 2004 ended, I started theorizing that perhaps every fifth year, the planets aligned themselves ‘just so’…giving us moviegoers twelve months of cinematic bliss. 2004 kept my theory going for another cycle…meanwhile, halfway through…