The irony of the Oscars deciding to go with 10 Best Picture nominations this year instead of the traditional 5 is that it's totally unnecessary.
The move is being done to boost ratings, which were...
Because everyone's doin' it. Notice that I didn't call them the 10 Best Films of the Decade. That would be crazy talk.
You Can Count on Me (2000)- Funny, touching, wise, and emotional—with bravura...
Hamilton, by Baltimore's own Matthew Porterfield, made this The New Yorker scribe's honorable mention list for the best films of the decade. Wow.
Assistant managing editor Amy Mulvihill attended the Maryland Film Festival's "Three Movie Visionaries" talk with Barry Levinson, John Waters, and David Simon at MICA. Here is her report:
It was...
"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."-Ferris Bueller.
Is it possible that all of us—we children of the 80s—took John Hughes for granted? His...
The first trailer for The Blind Side, the Sandra Bullock movie about the life of Ravens first round draft pick Michael Oher, is out. Looks tear jerky!
Just saw the preview for the upcoming G.I. Joe and I was struck by one thing. No, not the epic awfulness of the trailer—I’m a film critic, I don’t pre-judge (ahem). But this: What the hell has...
Had drinks with the talented young filmmaker Matt Porterfield last night. After graduating from NYU Film School, he came back to Baltimore to make the critically acclaimed Hamilton, a dreamy,...
Although I knew he was sick, so at least it didn’t come as a total shock, I’m tremendously sad about the death of director/actor Sydney Pollack, who succumbed to cancer yesterday at the too-young...
