The Review Pile

Here are my picks--I will list the nominees in the eight major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, the four acting categories and the ...

With True Grit , the Coen brothers find themselves in heretofore—for them anyway—uncharted territory. The film represents the first true fo...

If one were to teleport Irving G. Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer, David O. Selznick, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn, Carl Laemmle, Jr. and Walt Disney h...

Ah, to be tapped into the zeitgeist. When I first saw The Social Network , I was sitting behind a woman who was updating her Facebook stat...

Roger Ebert, in his four star review of 127 Hours , called the film “an exercise in conquering the unfilmable.” Of all ten Best Picture no...

Being the film favored to win Best Picture is a double edged sword. The filmmakers, producers, actor, and other nominees get to soak up the...

For a good portion of America, this film might just be the most subversive of the ten films nominated for Best Picture. Writing from my de...