Oscar Nominations

The Oscar nomination list is out…and while I’m not going to bother with the tech awards, here’s my take on who gets the little naked gold man in the main categories. A lot of this depends on what kind of mood the voters are, and that’s impenetrable right now. I could see any number of [...]

The Passion

I finally got the chance to see The Passion of the Christ this afternoon.
In a word: intense.
It’s also quite likely the most brutal movie ever made. The violence, the savagery…it’s unrelenting. Mel Gibson batters you about the head with it, until, amazingly, you’re just, somehow, benumbed by it. Just when you think that [...]