Movie Review: Silver Linings Playbook. **** out of 4. Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and reintroducing Chris Tucker. Written and Directed by David O. Russell.
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Clayton’s Top 12 Christmas Movies
This is a busy time of year for everyone but as we all gather with our families many of us will be watching our favorite Christmas movies. I’ve decided to take a few minutes to share with you my top 12 Christmas movies. Let me know what you think I missed. Unless you think I missed A Christmas Story. Because I didn’t. And you deserve coal. My one real major internal debate was over whether I was allowed to put Die Hard on this list. I might lose sleep over not including it, but I’m just not sure it can count… Read more
2012 Christmas Movie Smackdown
THE RULES: A fantasy style draft, in which Joseph Williams and contributor Sutter Vaught will go back and forth for five rounds, selecting picks to create a roster of the ALL TIME GREATEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES.
Blogposts of Christmas Past Circa 2006
For those of you who frequent The Wise Guise often, you know that I have published writings from younger versions of myself. As Clayton has commissioned me to write a series of Christmas posts, I thought it would be time once again to go to the archives. After my first Christmas post of 2012 yesterday, I thought it would be time to share with you some writings from 2006 Joseph, who was a sophomore in college at the time. My original plan was to edit the writings, make them better both in writing style and to better reflect the person I am today and the perspectives I’ve gained from graduating, teaching, and getting married and starting “adult” life. My goal was to make them less cheesy, less corny, and hopefully better. But that would have required work and I quickly realized it would have been a difficult venture. Whereas I feel Christmas time and Christmas joy are often about connecting with the pure of heart and the childlike wonder at both the birth of Christ and the magic of Christmas, I decided to publish the two Facebook notes as they were originally published and still sit deep within the Facebook archives. Ironically, these were my first attempts at blog-like writing and Clayton posted comments on both of them. It should have been a sign we were destined to blog together. So, without further ado, I present to you two Facebook notes I wrote about my love of Christmas back in the fall/winter of 2006. Unedited and as cheesy as they’ve ever been. Enjoy!
Alex Beene’s Top 12 of 2012
December 18, 2012
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If the modern-day prophets who swear by the Mayan calendar are correct, then we only have a few days remaining on this wonderful paradise of a planet called Earth. Sad I know, but you couldn’t have asked for a better year from a pop culture perspective to bring things to a close. Every aspect of the arts – from music, to theater, to film, to gaming – was firing on all cylinders throughout the year. Read more
Movie Review: The Hobbit
It is 3:30am as I write this so we’re going to keep it brief. I was persuaded at the last minute by my roommate Colin to go to a midnight showing tonight of The Hobbit. I agreed to do so if we could go to the showing with the new HFR 3D format. Read more
Charlie’s Top 100 Films: 51-75
Allow me to address one point of concern that shows up in this portion of the list. It concerns the way I approach ranking movie “sequels” or “trilogies”. I will admit to a bit of a “cheat”, if you will, when I consider great sequels or trilogies. My criteria is simple though. If I find that there is a story line that finds it’s completion in a sequel or trilogy, I will combine those films together under one entry as a complete story (or thematic arc). All films in this case must be great films, however; or they (at the very least) must provide an absolutely necessary conclusion to the themes or story presented in the first film that elevates the entire series. To those who would scoff at this decision, I must point out that this has been a common practice used by Sight and Sound in their past lists. Also, if you missed 76-100 you can find that list here. Read more
He Said, She Said, & He Said: Golden Globe Nominations (Full List & Analysis)
December 13, 2012
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The Golden Globe nominations came out this morning. For the complete list of nominees along with analysis and thoughts from Palmer, Clayton, and I, check out this post. There were some worthy nominees that give you a good idea of what movies to see and TV shows to watch. Then there were some other nominees which, according to the three of us, would much better belong on a list of the Worst of the Year. Regardless, enjoy and join in on the debate!
