The Town, Rabbit Hole, Blue Valentine, Tangled
The Town It took him long enough to get it right, but Ben Affleck has finally come of age. As actor, writer, and director, Affleck spins a tale of...
2010
Winter’s Bone, The Kids Are All Right, True Grit, How To Train Your Dragon
Winter’s Bone A simpler plot hast ne’er been writ: a girl searches for her missing father. The bleak nature of the cinematography coupled with the remote environment in which...
The King’s Speech
Unfortunately, this is the only song I could find publicly available. I'll keep checking, though. Check back if you want to hear the whole thing; hopefully by then I'll...
Black Swan, The Fighter, 127 Hours, The King’s Speech
Black Swan Black Swan is the newest addition to the Aronofsky oeuvre, a movie which swells relentlessly, undulating between expressions of subdued pathos, until the (quite literal) final act. Natalie Portman...
Toy Story 3
A solid children’s film isn’t really a children’s film at all. We all know that. But it takes a group of people working together toward that aim like Pixar...
Inception
Sigmund Freud, that veritable master of the mind and erstwhile liaison betwixt the dream world and our own (is there really such a hard distinction between the two?), said,...