Next year @ the film experience I hope to look at shorts and DVDs more on account of easy access for all of you -- this year was so discouraging in how hard it was for anyone outside of NY & LA to see the new releases I wanted keep talking about. ...

As you can see there, Mexican cinema has recently caught Oscar's fancy again after that long dry spell that followed Mexico's triple play in the 1960s. The resurgence has a lot to do with these four men.

Top Ten: For the listmaker in me JA and the listlover in you youJA from MNPP here, guest-blogging the Top 10 for this week.The way I reckon it, I don't want to step on any toes while guesting here, so I want to choose a topic that Nathaniel w...

1. Why am I watching this? 2. The first minute of Jumper is dizzying... and not because the camera spins around Hayden Christensen as protagonist "David Rice".

Naked Gold Man: On Sundays we talk Oscar... lord knows, we never discuss it any other day! [/sarcasm]I'll be updating all my Oscar predictions over the next couple of days [update: big six categories all completed] but before I can even think about w...

I'm sure someone else has already noticed and publicized this (I'm weeks behind on my web reading... so far behind I have almost no idea what's going on. Where am I?) but I can't get over the fact that there's two Ryan Binghams in the Oscar race this...

Adam of Club Silencio here with a quick addition to the 2004 countdown. Lucile Hadzihalilovic's haunting and metaphorical mood piece about female adolescence, Innocence, is one of 2004's unsung and eerie treasures from across the pond. Girls arrive by...

Jose here, to remind you of an underrated gem from 2004. When I was a child I was addicted to Superman. Not the Christopher Reeve movies and obviously not the weird TV show with Teri Hatcher, but the classic animated shorts from the 1930s. We had a...

Robert here, looking back at 2004. This past decade really was a documentary renaissance, and if Errol Morris' The Fog of War from 2003 was the best of the decade (in the opinion of this humble writer) the most original documentary arrived a year...

Alexa here from Pop Elegantiarum with a quick pretty picture break. I find too many film posters to be utterly devoid of style; it's pretty disappointing when a great film gets a poster that looks like it should be on the back of a cereal box. (Just...