Ten Movies That Make Me Ridiculously Happy
  I rewatched Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort the other day and spent the entire thing with a stupid giddy grin on my face. It got me thinking about films that just plain and simple make me happy. So here are ten films that make me ridiculously happy, from the moment the credits start until the final fade-out. Initially, it was going to be the top ten that do, but I ended up with a shortlist of around twenty-five, and choosing which ones made it i

Doomsday Marathon: A Boy and His Dog
[Special Thanks to Sean Dwyer for contributing this entry into the Doomsday Marathon, which is also currently published as a Forgotten Films Entry over at FilmJunk] O

Just a bunch of rambling about how awesome Gary Oldman is… oh and a new movie.
For years now, I’ve been whining about Gary Oldman not being the lead in most of his movies lately. There was a time in the late-80s to the mid-90s that when a movie was released with him in it, it was Gary Oldman’s face on all of the marketing, whether for his breakout roles in Sid & Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears, his brilliant comedic turn in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, or as the title character in Coppola’s Dracula. Since,

Review: The Road
When it was announced that Australian director John Hillcoat would be taking up the challenge of bringing the bleak and difficult novel, The Road, to the screen it seemed liked the absolute perfect match of director and material. After all, his gritty and fly-coated outback western The Proposition had that right mix of apocalyptic and tender that is the essence of Cormac McCarthy’s prose (the crisp non-nonsense sentences are as sparsely worded as any book that I

Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Like all of Wes Anderson’s pictures, Fantastic Mr. Fox dances between meaningful and artificial. Often the directors detractors spend too much time on the latter, and perhaps miss the immense character detail revealed in their diorama surroundings and meticulously selected wardrobes. Of course the stop-motion technique selected to animate the film threatens to enhance the artificial, but somehow, the animators have transcended the challenge put to them to tell the story this way. This is