What up Los Angeles? What’s good with ya? You guys feeling “hella” good about the game tonight? You got your Cali swag on point for tonight’s game? Well… you might want to pump the brakes.
Double Movie Review: The Place Beyond the Pines and Trance
Everything I seemed to read going into The Place Beyond the Pines tended to focus mainly on the buzzword “ambitious”. For Trance, the buzzword was “stylistic.” While I liked The Place Beyond The Pines much more than Trance, I think they both deserve a lot of praise more for what they tried to do than what they actually succeeded in doing.
Netflix Streaming Suggestions Reprise
Alright folks… it’s been a while since I’ve done a Netflix streaming suggestions post so I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve been watching lately. Recently we had Josh Smith drop some wisdom on us about the Netflix original series House of Cards. But I’m admittedly slacking on that series at the moment. I think I’ve watched like 4.5 episodes so far. Here’s what I have been watching and would recommend:
Movie Review: Q&A With A Spring Breakers Survivor
Alright good people… I have crawled into the belly of the beast and taken on Spring Breakers so that you wouldn’t have to. I took to Facebook, Twitter and email to ask for questions about the film and my experience and this is what we came up with.
The 20/20 Experience Review and Power Ranking of the Tracks
People are always coming up to me and being like, “Clayton, you have such an amazing taste in music. Why don’t you focus your writing on music?” I like to consider myself much like Justin Timberlake in that I dabble in music, but my talents are too broad to contain. OK. None of that is true, but in case you haven’t heard, JT released a new album yesterday called The 20/20 Experience. I’m here to give you my initial reaction … →
2013 March Madness Bracket and Picks
As we recently learned from the commercial ESPN that is sure to air nonstop for the next few weeks, obsessing over your bracket is purely patriotic. Seeing as I’m a patriot, I’ve decided to share my bracket with you all today. It’s generally speaking very conservative, because I feel like people get way to upset happy in the early rounds with their picks. However, as someone who usually does very well in bracket challenges, I feel very good about my … →
Upcoming Films of 2013: March-May
As some of you may remember, last March I did a post outlining every upcoming movie of 2012. Joseph and I recently started creating such a post for this year but then decided that it would definitely be an information overload for everyone. We’ve decided to just make a series of these for 2013 and break down a few months’ releases at a time. Here are all the movies being released in Memphis/Nashville during the remainder of March thru the … →
Movie Review: Side Effects
When it comes to viewing Steven Soderbergh films, you usually know you’re going to have to make both an emotional and intellectual investment. His latest film, which he has proclaimed will be his final cinematic venture, is no exception.
Top 50 Films of 2012: 1-10
All good things must come to an end. I hope you’ve considered my top 50 films of 2012 countdown a good thing and I hope to bring it home with a strong top 10 finale. A big part of why I like to write about movies so much is that I want to make people aware of all the special movies that are made that don’t have the budget to air commercials every half hour for weeks on end. There … →
Top 50 Films of 2012: 11-30
First things first- after publishing my 31-50 rankings, it was brought to my attention that I did a terrible job of explaining my desire to rank my top 50 movies instead of 10 like most people or even 25 like I did last year. So let me clarify a few things again real quickly. 1) I would never rank a movie in these lists that I didn’t feel was noteworthy. If there were only 25 movies from 2012 that I wanted … →
