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Fatal Attraction
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 20, 2011
Chances are, if you were a movie going person in 1987 you either saw 3 Men and a Baby or Fatal Attraction, if not both. Fatal Attraction was the second highest grossing film at the box office that year and seems like a polar opposite to 3 Men. Like I’ve said before, the most popular films aren’t read more
Moonstruck
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 19, 2011
I don’t think I understand passion like the Italian-Americans in Moonstruck do. When I see a big full moon, I just want to sit on the porch and drink beer with it. I don’t function through superstitions, yelling, constant arguing or angrily telling the stories of lost loves and limbs, then threate read more
The Kids Are All Right
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 18, 2011
We cannot ignore the fact that modern families are becoming more prevalent in our society. It wasn’t too long ago that that term referred to a single parent or only the mother working, but now we’re into an era that accepts homosexual couples raising children. The Kids Are All Right serves to read more
Inception (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 18, 2011
Dreams within dreams always scare me and leave me making sure I really am awake. Just last month, after an eventful night of dreams where I thought I had just woken up only to wake up to a new dream, I tweeted this: Too many dreams where I thought I was awake only to wake up and fall back to sleep read more
Double Indemnity
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 17, 2011
There are four things a film noir must be: dark, smokey, seducing and cynical. To write a decent piece about Double Indemnity, one of the best examples of film noir, I feel the need to pull the shades closed, put on a fedora and let cigarette smoke waft around the room. But I don’t smoke, and read more
Wilson (Missing)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 16, 2011
Oh Wilson, where have you gone? It seems you’re just one of those poor films of the forties who could win five Oscars, then be lost into obscurity and only available on VHS for much more than most are willing to pay. What a shame, I don’t even own that sort of dinosaur machine anymore. read more
Since You Went Away
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 16, 2011
Since You Went Away focuses on the Hilton family’s struggles after the man of the house has enlisted in the military for WWII. The suburban family consists of the mother, Anne (Claudette Colbert), two teenage daughters, older Jane (Jennifer Jones), younger whinier Bridget (Shirley Temple) and a read more
Going My Way
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 15, 2011
Going My Way is the prequel to The Bells of St. Mary’s, which I have already reviewed here. From experience, I can say that it makes no difference if you see them in the correct order, in fact they were not even written in the order of their theatrical appearance. However, if you enjoy one you read more
Gaslight
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 14, 2011
Gaslight is a dramatic thriller fueled by mystery. Paula (Ingrid Bergman) was raised by her loving aunt, until the night she was murdered. She was found strangled by the fireplace and the fiend was never caught. Years later, Paula marries Gregory (Charles Boyer) and the two decide that her aunt’s read more
Winter’s Bone
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 13, 2011
Winter’s Bone takes place in the rugged terrain of the Ozark Mountains and the people are just as rough. Everyone drives trucks, little sedans would not fare well on those dirt roads. The most important classes at the high school seem to be ROTC drills and teen parenting 101. The story is in read more
The King’s Speech (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 13, 2011
The day after I saw The King’s Speech, I realized that I had not told my readers that I did a podcast last month, but what a pompous way to bring a personal touch to such a wonderful film. King George VI was royalty pushed to be a world leader who had to courageously work through his debilitating read more
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 12, 2011
I must have seen some form of an Indiana Jones movie before I was five, because I remember being no older than six and trying to use a jump rope as a whip to swing from the tree in the yard. I realize now that the Indiana Jones trilogy has influenced me much more than normal people should be influe read more
On Golden Pond
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 11, 2011
Only at the age of twenty-five, I’ve already found bits of me growing old. Those few gray hairs have already multiplied to a streak and after a good downhill hike, I feel it all through my hip the next day. There used to be some unspoken idea of invincibility floating through my mind, now I see read more
Atlantic City
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 10, 2011
In the film, Atlantic City looks like a stubborn floater in the toilet. There’s graffiti everywhere and buildings being demolished left and right. A build board on a rundown apartment building pokes fun at the city’s embarrassing decline, reading, “Atlantic City, you’re on the map again.” read more
Chariots of Fire (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 9, 2011
No doubt that there are still amazing athletes competing all over the world today, but lately it seems that we aren’t told about the positive attributes of athletes today as much as we hear about the scandalous behaviors some take part in. Their vast range of offences are all over the news, yet read more
Reds
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 8, 2011
John “Jack” Reed was an American journalist, and communist activist who wrote Ten Days that Shook the World, a first hand account of a crucial point in the Russian Revolution. His wife, Louise Bryant was a feminist writer, and journalist beside him. Reds is a three hour epic telling the true read more
The Fighter
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 7, 2011
Based on a true story and directed by David O. Russell, The Fighter is about the rise of lightweight boxer, Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and the redemption of his entire family in Lowell Massachusetts. Seven years older than Micky, the young pride in the family, is his half brother Dicky (Christian read more
Toy Story 3
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 7, 2011
Once again, Pixar is the animation monster that can break barriers and land in the prestigious Best Picture category two consecutive years. I dare to say that if the category had been extended to it’s present ten nominees in years past, Finding Nemo and WALL-E could have also been nominated Best read more
Separate Tables
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 6, 2011
I must say, that I have had such amazing luck lately with the films not available on Netflix. Just Friday morning I was able to catch Separate Tables playing on TCM, what perfect timing with my own schedule. So, if there is a man behind the curtain pulling levers for TCM and picking the most obscu read more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 5, 2011
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof examines the relationships and lies in a Southern family. Brick (Paul Newman) is an ex-football player who drinks too much and has recently broken his leg in a drunken attempt to relive his days as an athlete. Hi read more