Red Tails (Hemingway, 2012)
Red Tails is an earnest, straight forward, somewhat generic, but easily likable war-action movie that will probably be both overpraised and overcritized due to it being produced by George Lucas.
Author: kenmorefield
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Wit (Nichols, 2001) — 10 Years Later
My relationship to cancer has changed much in the last ten years.
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2011 Top 10
At various points in the year, I considered five different films for the top slot. Normally that might mean that there was no runaway film that I really fell in love with, but the opposite was true. The difficulty in picking just one was reflective of the different ways in which I adored each of these films.
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Making the Boys (Robey, 2011)
Making the Boys feels at times like it is seven potentially great documentaries struggling to emerge from one good one.
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Marks & Shane, 2011)
Being Elmo is good.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I (Condon, 2011)
While I do not count myself amongst the franchise's devotees—I have read the first book and seen all the films, mostly out of anthropological curiosity—I have come to wonder whether some its most hostile critics might be engaged in what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick calls "paranoid readings."
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Alps (Lanthimos, 2011)
Over at The Thin Place, the podcast I host at Film Geek Radio, Todd Truffin and I have just wrapped a special episode on Giorgos Lanthimos’s Alps.
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Of God and Gucci (Rennar, 2011)
Part art therapy, part legal document (it contains footage of the mediation resulting from the director's lawsuit against the Roman Catholic church), part political argument, Keith Rennar's Of God and Gucci is the director's attempt to explain and understand the effects that years of sexual abuse had on him.
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The Other F Word (Nevins, 2011)
It is hard for me to say, precisely, when The Other F Word lost me for good.
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Wrestling for Jesus (Clarke, 2011)
When asked to describe his film, director Nathan Clarke said in an interview, he likes to say it is "everything you expect from the title and everything you don't."