January 2012
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Why We Need Horror Remakes
Raise your hand if you think the following quote is insipid:
“If we don’t make the story like this, every twenty or thirty years, I think we as an audience will forget this particular brand of suspense or horror, and that would be a grave injustice.” — Eric Heisserer, writer of Final Destination 5, A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), and The Thing (2011)
December 2011
2 posts
My Ballot for the Austin Film Critics Group
Best Film
Martha Marcy May Marlene
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Midnight in Paris
Drive
I Saw the Devil
Best Director
Lynne Ramsay — We Need to Talk About Kevin
Sean Durkin — Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martin Scorsese — Hugo
Bennett Miller — Moneyball
Nicolas Winding Refn — Drive
Best Actor
Antonio Banderas — The Skin I Live In
Michael Shannon —...
My Top 20 Favorite Films of 2011
1. Martha Marcy May Marlene 2. We Need to Talk About Kevin 3. Midnight in Paris 4. Drive 5. I Saw the Devil 6. The Skin I Live In 7. The Muppets 8. 13 Assassins 9. Win Win 10. Black Death — 11. Project Nim 12. Take Shelter 13. Hugo 14. Attack the Block 15. 50/50 16. Young Adult 17. Submarine 18. Moneyball 19. The Debt 20. The Myth of the American Sleepover