In Search of Lost Time: Looking at the Small Stuff in The Grand Budapest Hotel
Here is a wonderful piece on Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel from one of Awardswatch’s most esteemed members, Alex Bean. It’s featured on his... Read More
Film Reviews
Sundance Film Festival 2014 Roundup
Amidst the increasingly stale Oscar race, where the nominations have been announced and all but a couple races have been set, the Sundance Film Festival... Read More
Review: The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (Stiller, 2013)
Ben Stiller’s new film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty suffers from something I would call “Zach Snyder Syndrome.” It’s where a film is loaded... Read More
Review: Her (Jonze, 2013)
In Spike Jonze’s latest film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a professional letter-writer for-hire who composes personal correspondence with his creative mind, sensitive nature,... Read More
Review: All Is Lost (Chandor, 2013)
Cinematically speaking, there are few places more moving, more honestly heartbreaking than on the big screen with a lone character struggling to survive. To be... Read More
Review: The Counselor (Ridley Scott, 2013)
I had read Cormac McCarthy’s script for The Counselor earlier this year. Like you will no doubt hear in other reviews of the film itself,... Read More
Review: 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
In matters regarding a historical time frame, accuracy is key in presenting a story so that people can understand what occurred, and to give us... Read More
Review: Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013)
2013 seems to be the year of survival stories. From Gravity to All is Lost and here with Captain Phillips the one man (or woman)... Read More
Review: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
Since Alfonso Cuarón’s audacious dystopian sci-fi film, Children of Men, was released in 2006, cinephiles everywhere have been wondering how, and later as the years ticked... Read More
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)
Most famous and renowned for his passionate tales of romance, Wong Kar-Wai still seems like an inspired fit for Chinese martial arts moviemaking. The beloved... Read More
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