I was going to rewatch it and give my updated thoughts on this beloved and now award-winning film, but this was a hectic week and I didn’t have much time. So instead, I’m just going to share my initial thoughts [...]

“These days … there seem to be five times the number of movies opening and quickly leaving, and five times the dreck.” –Manohla Dargis, ‘Changing Science of Movie-ology’ Oh, for the good ol days! The halcyon days of yore, when [...]

I feel at this stage, my Top 5 is almost common knowledge. Not only can you hear my Top 5 on the Matineecast, but I have additionally re-teamed with Jo to provide a full Top 10 on a brilliant new episode [...]

I always shudder when people ask me about my “favorite movie.”  I usually look at them like they’ve asked me to make Sophie’s Choice, and ultimately I ask “Well, silent or talkie? Avant-garde or mainstream?” and then they roll their [...]

Sometimes I think that we, as critics, are a far too cynical bunch.  We’re hard to please (myself included), and quick to judge.  We’re as snarky as possible, and we enjoy our own witticisms.  Our reviews feed our own egos [...]

Hugo is unlike anything Martin Scorsese has ever made, and yet it seems like the film he was destined to make.  Over his lifetime Scorsese has amassed a body of work that is influential to film and has nothing to [...]

What do you call the post-summer portion of the movie season? It’s not really just fall because that doesn’t start until 9/21 and ends before the year is out. It’s certainly not winter by those standards, either. For the purposes [...]

  Martin Scorsese is a legend, that cannot be argued. But even legends get bored with making dark adult dramas, and this November he’s changing things up. Based off the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, Hugo is Scorsese’s first [...]