Alright, I swear that when I wrote this blog post, I didn't know that there was already an Internet meme called "strutting Leo" (e.g. here, or just google it). Thanks to sehkmet22, now I do.

SHUTTER ISLAND is the film in which Martin Scorsese totally owns M. Night Shyamalan. I think I'm supposed to write "pwns," but I just turned 37 and I have a very expensive English degree, so I insist on vowels ( Read more... )

One doesn't have to like Baz Luhrmann (and I don't) to say that ROMEO + JULIET is really frickin' great. The casting is fantastic. The respect accorded to Shakespeare is exactly right. And I love the guns ( Read more... )

I've seen a lot of great films recently on DVD in my push to catch up for the Oscars tomorrow. Here they are in approximate descending level of greatness. I still have a few more DVDs left to catch up on before tomorrow evening.

THE DEPARTED (2006) ( Read more... )