Film #133: Inception

It is difficult to transmit how much stress Inception caused me--and no doubt others--before seeing it. But I'll try. Back when The Dark Knight was vying for a Best Picture Oscar, Kristopher Tapley, of In Contention, and I had a terrible, too-nasty (I love his site) quarrel about the merits of that film, directed by Christopher Nolan. You can see my opinions of that film here. Kris and I, on

Best of the Movies: 2008

For me, this past year was all about:The Fall (Tarsem Singh)Synecdoche, NY (Charlie Kaufman)Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)The Wrestler (Darrin Aronofsky)Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)In Bruges (Martin McDonagh) Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)The Promotion (Steve Conrad)Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)JCVD (Mabrouk El

Film #100, and The Best Movie of 2008: The Fall (and Its Most Overrated Movie: The Dark Knight)

In the spring of 2008, I was wandering around New York City when I saw a stunning poster plastered all over a city wall.Always on the lookout for new movie posters (which trump trailers as my preferred way of being notified about new films), I saw this masterful work of art glued to these battered bits of particle board and exclaimed inside "WHAT IS THIS??" I read the fine print. At the top, it