Bryan’s Top Ten Movies of 2011

As is becoming tradition, I don’t complete my top ten list until a few months into the new year. This is mostly because I’m trying to see everything I missed. This list is late for that reason of course, but also because I was having my friends at Outpost Media put together a video companion (which I think came out looking sweet, many thanks to them). I thought it might be fun. So watch the video, then read on for more context or read first then watch or whatever you feel like doing. Just enjoy.

The Artful Driver – Review: Drive

I don’t want to review this movie. I don’t want to tell you that Nicolas Winding Refn is a great director who’s made an amazingly taut thriller that grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go. I don’t want to tell you that Ryan Gosling delivers a uniquely unnerving performance. I just want to tell you to go see Drive, because I don’t want to spoil the surprise.

The Trouble with Quibbles: Will To Live

Today we take a look at two films that examine a basic driving force, the will to live, in very different ways. Never Let Me Go is a sci-fi drama about human clones looking for meaning, starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, and Andrew Garfield. And Buried is a psychological thriller starring Ryan Reynolds as a man taken hostage and buried alive.