Blog Archives
Drive — Shells and Fractured Identities
Despite its title and premise, Drive is not a film about speed and Bullit-like car chases. Rather, Nicolas Winding Refn’s film is about fragmented identity. The primary example of this ...
Best Picture Haiku — 2012 Edition
Well, it’s that time of year again. This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards. In what seems to be ...
Blue Valentine — When Prince Charming is Content With His One Shining Moment
Back in March, Tim Adkins took a poignant look at the unplanned pregnancy crux of Blue Valentine and transitioned the filmic conflict into a personal one, exploring the ways in ...
The Ides of March — Possibly More Like a Political Speech than Intended
From the moment a soothsayer warns Julius Caeser to “Beware the Ides of March,” the marriage of politics and assassination were forever canonized in eternal lines. And, in what might exemplify ...
Crazy, Stupid, Love – Not to be Confused with Eat, Pray, Meh
Take a couple that has been married for twenty five years. Add a dash of midlife crisis until it yields infidelity and divorce. Slather the wife with remorse for the ...
Date Night – Blue Valentine*
The Liberian Girl and I were running 20 minutes late for a late Sunday Brunch on U Street with our favorite lesbians. After the light at 12th Street turned green, ...
Cotto’s Best of 2010
The first word out of my mouth after seeing a “great” movie is more often than not, an expletive. Followed by an exhale. I would’ve have thought with “The Social ...
