David Fincher Retrospective: Zodiac (2007)

Zodiac

2007

Director: David Fincher

Starring:  Sigh...here we go, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Chloe Sevigny, June Diane Raphael, Brian Cox, Ione Skye, John Carroll Lynch, John Terry, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Zach Grenier, Elias Koteas, Adam Goldberg, James LeGros, Clea DuVall, Paul Schulze

Rated: R

Methinks our friend's a tad bit fuckered in the head.

                ~Paul Avery

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 2012

The world may not have ended in 2012, but this is where my Liftetime series comes to its end.  This may not have been my most popular series judging by numbers, but it was the most fun and interactive one I think I've ever had.  I wanna thank so much, those of you who have participated in sharing your own lists whether it be in the comments, FB or Twitter.  And thanks for your input in other places as well.  I hope you were able to discern that I was doing Favorite and not "Best" here and encouraging you to throw up your own Favorites as well.  The purpose of this wasn't to be "my word is law", I was hoping for a more communal offering with this.

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 2008

Let's start this differently.  Take a look at these Academy Award nominees for Best Picture.

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 2007

2007 was a weak year altogether for me, but produced plenty of films I really liked and some I loved.  I thought the Oscar race absolutely shafted a certain film that will be on my list, but oh well.  You win some you lose some.  Just because they handed out "official" awards doesn't mean a film is erased from existence and no longer available.

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 2005

2005 contains one of the most depreciated films to win Best Picture that I can recall.  Before it won the honors it was a well respected and genuinely liked film.  Once they were handed the trophy its been hated so much that its even been called one of the worst movies ever.  I'm talking, of course, of Paul Haggis' Crash.  I think the film is kind of safe, but I still enjoy it.  Its got some good performances and while the issues are a bit on the nose, they're still goo ones to see play out.  The storytelling pattern of Crash would be something that would be utilized in many films for the next few years as well.  2005 also marks the year I moved to Los Angeles and Crash had a lot of locations I was becoming familiar with, so I kind of easily warmed to it.  Its also notable that this is the year I joined forces with the infamous Scott Mendelson.

New Star Trek Poster Radiates Originality

 

So, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS got a new poster...and I'm absolutely floored by it.  I've never seen anything like that, at least in a dozen years or so...