2013 Oscar Checklist – Ted & Chasing Ice

These two aren’t the most obvious pair, but they’re the only two films nominated for Best Original Song that I haven’t reviewed yet. So there you have it.

Not Your Stepping-Stone – Review: The Fighter

I’m going to try really hard not make any obvious boxing puns or analogies while writing this. I will, however, compare The Fighter and director David O. Russell to the phoenix. Much like the phoenix, arising anew from the ashes, Russell seems to reinvent himself with each new film. From Spanking the Monkey to Flirting with Disaster to Three Kings then I Heart Huckabees and now The Fighter, he seems, like most great artists, to be perpetually evolving, with the one constant being that he makes great films.

My Favorite Films of the Last Decade #13

Dignam: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s say you have no idea and leave it at that, okay? No idea. Zip. None. If you had an idea of what we do, we would not be good at what we do, now would we? We would be cunts. Are you calling us cunts?