By Ji-Un Kwon
Best Supporting Actor – Christophe Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
“Uber-bingo!” – Roger Ebert via Twitter: hear, hear.
Best Animated Feature – Up
Pssst! It’s actually called the Pixar Award.
Best Original Song – Weary Kind from Crazy Heart
In related news, T-bone also wins Best Name at the Oscars.
- LOVE the writer/actor vitriol played off by Tina Fey and Robert Downey, Jr.
Best Original Screenplay – Hurt…
By Ji-Un Kwon
In the interest of full disclosure, I must confess that Martin Scorsese is the reason I worship at the altar of Cinema. I find his manic love for film completely adorable and believe his finest works are timeless and uncompromising testaments to the integrity of American cinema.
That being said, Shutter Island, his latest film and his fourth collaboration with Leonardo…
By Ji-Un Kwon
GET STEVIE WONDER. ASAP. STAT. IMMEDIATELY.
Granted, I’m inclined to love anything featuring Stevie Wonder. But this commercial is actually really adorable.
By Ji-Un Kwon
Kwon: <Sigh> Okay. I understand why people were excited about this movie, although I was less excited than most. And I get why people are impressed by it. Though again… I mean, fine. Yay you, James Cameron, you built your own camera. And your computer graphics team did some fantastic work. Who doesn’t want to fly on a dragon? Or…
By Ji-Un Kwon
So way back in October, the Washington Post published an article by Ann Hornaday, entitled Women & Film, which posed the following question:
I had been ruminating (read: seething) on this for a while now, and was already sufficiently annoyed by a lot of things in this…
By Ji-Un Kwon
So, it happened. 10 Nominations. Personally, I would have rather they finally made a comedy category. A girl can dream. Whatever, the whole things a frickin’ circus, and has been so for years, but one I dutifully take part in like a proper movie-lover should. So, I shall rave and rant with appropriate passion and outrage. Conspicuous by its absence…
By Ji-Un Kwon
GAH! Out of the country at present time. As I write this, last night’s telecast of the Golden Globe Awards is safely stored in that wonderous invention I refer to as my digital lock box… waiting for me to return and view it — which I will. And though it will be untimely (my apologies), I will still attempt to…
By Ji-Un Kwon
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…
By Ji-Un Kwon
Ah, the beloved franchise. It’s a strange love/hate, demanding, volatile sort of relationship. Betrayal is a continuous theme. As is redemption. And occasionally… once in a blue moon… there’s exaltation. The franchise often features characters that are held to a special kind of standard, and in a way, requires greater care and alignment of the stars than other types of…
By Ji-Un Kwon
It had to be done. Because it has to be channeled somewhere, you know? Disappointment is a hard thing to swallow. Some of these were simply doomed because of some very high expectations. Others will sit on this list forever. FOR-EV-ER. FOR-EV-ER. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Ahem. Anyway. Making movies is hard work, so hopefully, I have refrained from being…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…