Weinberg's Random Stuff

Mar 19

Weinberg Film Reviews from SXSW 2012

For FEARnet.com:

  1. The Aggression Scale
  2. The Cabin in the Woods
  3. Citadel
  4. Intruders
  5. Lovely Molly
  6. Modus Anomali
  7. The Raid: Redemption
  8. [REC] 3: Genesis
  9. Sinister
  10. The Tall Man
  11. V/H/S

For TwitchFilm.com:

  1. Casa De Mi Padre
  2. Extracted
  3. Funeral Kings
  4. Jeff
  5. We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists

Silly piece for Movies.com:

Jan 27

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)

Dec 20

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 — Take Shelter

Ryan Gosling — Drive

Michael Fassbender — Shame

Woody Harrelson — Rampart

Best Actress

Tilda Swinton — We Need to Talk About Kevin

Elizabeth Olsen — Martha Marcy May Marlene

Michelle Williams — My Week with Marilyn

Charlize Theron — Young Adult

Kirsten Dunst — Melancholia

Best Supporting Actor

Ned Beatty — Rampart

Ben Kingsley - Hugo

John Hawkes — Martha Marcy May Marlene

Patton Oswalt - Young Adult

Jonah Hill — Moneyball

Best Supporting Actress

Sarah Paulson - Martha Marcy May Marlene

Carey Mulligan - Shame

Jessica Chastain — Take Shelter

Emily Watson — War Horse

Evan Rachel Wood — The Ides of March

Best Original Screenplay

Young Adult

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Midnight in Paris

50/50

Win Win

Best Adapted Screenplay

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Hugo

Moneyball

The Ides of March

The Descendants

Dec 17

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
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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