From the looks of the nominations thread, the George Divison belongs to Hotel Rwanda, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Where the Red Fern Grows. We saw valid cases made for all; I haven’t watched any of these, …

What a strange flight Kaplan is. I don’t quite understand the noms for Murder in the First and V for Vendetta, or even for Brazil, a movie I recall as having enough of a funny …

The randomizer giveth, the randomizer taketh away. What it giveth here in the Ku division is two presumptive favorites, Breaking the Waves and Requiem for a Dream, plus a Gary Oldman joint and some embattled …

I haven’t seen a few key entries in the Coppola division, which I suspect is making my decision easier here. Not “easy,” but easier.
Based on what I have seen, I can rule out Apocalypse Now …

(I…right? The UNC game I watched last night with Dirk quadrupled what I know about college basketball, so pretend I made a hilarious joke about posting up and let’s move on.)
Thanks so much to everyone …

The Movie: The Vanishing (U.S.)
The Crush Object: Kiefer Sutherland
The Story: Barney Cousins (Jeff Bridges) rehearses an abduction using ether and a bunch of Ted Bundy-ish props, and is generally a creeper. Not coincidentally, Jeff (Kiefer) …

Greetings, friends and cinephiles, and welcome to Cinemarch Madness: the TN bracket that crowns the most heartbreaking film of all time.
The idea began years ago, at a bar that doesn’t exist anymore, with a scribbled …

The flight in Flight is a triumph. I’ve known about the sequence — about most of the movie’s plot details, in fact — for months, and it still shoved me into the cockpit and locked …

Silver Linings Playbook is supposedly a story about two “crazy” people — Pat (Bradley Cooper), recently released from a correctional psych facility after beating his wife’s lover severely; and Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), whose guilty grief …

(or, “Hitchcock Completism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be”)
Frenzy is adequate. It’s not great; it’s not quite good, even. Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film is miles better than the stillbirth that preceded it in his …