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Day 82: Best Film That Defined The 1930s
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) Frank Capra’s seminal film set the standard for “screwball comedies” and became the blueprint for the “romantic comedy” where the two leads are unlikely paired together, mis-matched under normal conditions. It defined this decade because… Continue reading
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Day 81: Best Ensemble Cast
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (1992) Rather than going in the direction in the likes of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World or some other large scale cast with a bunch of big names, I decided to go on a much… Continue reading
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Day 80: Most Intense Movie Scene
FIRECRACKERS and a DRUG DEAL in Boogie Nights (1997) While several other movies come to mind, once I started narrowing my list down, this kept making its way to the top. Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ode to the Porn… Continue reading
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Day 79: A Movie That Spoke to a Generation
TOY STORY TRILOGY (1995, 1999, 2010) Toy Story and its sequels, spoke to me in three, very precise ways. The first film spoke to my inner child; my active imagination playing for hours on end with Star Wars figures, Transformers,… Continue reading
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Day 78: A Movie that Needs to be Required Viewing in a High School Classroom
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) Yes, I am rule breaker. For the second time, no doubt. But this was the film that originally inspired me to come up with this category in the first place. So, I’ll justify my own… Continue reading
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Day 77: Favorite Character Actor/Actress
STEVE BUSCEMI in Fargo For close to twenty years I’ve watched Steve Buscemi played second, third or even forth fiddle to the main protagonist/antagonist in dozens of independent and Hollywood films. And I’ve pretty much loved him in all of… Continue reading
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Day 76: Favorite Remake or Re-envisioning
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) This category was much more difficult a choice than I first thought it would be for me. While I’ve seen dozens upon dozens of remakes, I wanted my choice to be one where I was completely… Continue reading
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Day 75: Favorite Love Story in a Movie
CARL & ELLIE in Up With Up, Pixar was able to accomplish what a majority of Hollywood films are incapable of doing: creating an honest and beautiful love story between Carl & Ellie (with no dialog) in less than ten… Continue reading
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Day 74: Favorite Movie Epic/Historical Drama
BEN-HUR (1959) It doesn’t get any better than a Charlton Heston playing a Jew… again (see Moses in: The Ten Commandments). I think he did it a third time when he portrayed John the Baptist in The Greatest Story Ever Told.… Continue reading
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Day 73: Favorite Gangster Movie
ROAD TO PERDITION (2002) While the easier choice for me could have been Goodfellas, The Godfather or The Untouchables, Road to Perdition just oozes 1930s gangster coolness. It’s the terribly tragic story following Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), a mob enforcer and his… Continue reading
The Inconsistent Writer 