NoFace for Film

In an ongoing effort to forward information and knowledge to the masses, and taking into consideration the constraints of time and personal opinion, I give you Condensed Analysis; A handful of films reviewed in brief (more brief than a normal review) and presented all at once.
The films discussed in Condensed Analysis are not necessarily […]

Ah, January. The first month of the year. A winter month. A month where millions of families in America gather in the living room to spend quality time with each other, playing board games while eating cookies.
Oh, who am I kidding? Families gather in the living room in mid-January because of one thing: the world’s […]

I actually wrote a previous “Best Films of 2006″ right after Christmas. Since then I realized that I had to seriously re-evaluate my list.
Why is that? First of all, there were a couple of films that I should have included. Two were on DVD, and I didn’t realize that they came out in 2006. […]

(This article was first published at Blogcritics.)
Now that it’s 2007 and all, I hope that the film industry will take a moment to reflect on what they’ve learned from last year, to consider the mistakes they’ve made and hopefully not repeat them this year.
Just in case you studios, producers, directors, actors, etc., are listening, here […]

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and got lots of cool presents. How many of you saw a movie after opening presents?
Now that the year is coming to a close, I naturally thought of all the movies I’d seen this year. Some were absolutely phenomenal and that just blew my mind; most were entertaining […]

When a young actor is first starting out in the business, he or she probably feels lucky to get any role. As the actor becomes more well-known and established, he/she may start feeling that he/she can now get any role, right?
Well, not quite.
Often times, actors end up falling under one of three cursed roles, and […]

About a month ago my boyfriend and I started renting DVDs of Lost, Season 1. Yes, we’re a little behind with the times
The pilot episode is very exciting. A man in a business suit wakes up and finds himself in the middle of the jungle. Injured and dazed, he looks around for a […]

When I was a kid, I remember going to the movies and noting that if the movie time said “6:15″, that meant that the movie would start about 5 minutes after the trailers. No big deal. My parents would yell at me and my brother to hurry up and finish getting dressed so we can […]

Miyazaki image is created by Tarnas.
Hayao Miyazaki is a legend. One of the most famous and highly respected creators of Japanese animated films, Miyazaki is sometimes called the Walt Disney of Japan*. Although Miyazaki does credit Mr. Disney as an influence in his work, Miyazaki’s own creations differ significantly from anything generated by the Mouse […]

Back in the mid 80’s and early 90’s, Patrick Swayze ruled as the dancing king of smoothness and romance. Women swooned over the sensitive yet manly characters he’s played, and drooled over his muscular, agile dancer’s body. Meanwhile, men admired him for his badassness in movies such as Next of Kin and Roadhouse. Ok, maybe […]