I’m having one of those moments again where I liked a film, but am shaky on the write-y. I’m grasping for motivation to continue my quest to watch every single Best Picture winner possible, yet I’m struggling alongside simultaneous feelings of anxiety and contentment – content because I really did like 1929’s winner The Broadway…
The first time I learned about the work of Ernest Borgnine was during my Freshman year of college. My professor of Art and Language of Television was obsessed with the movie Marty. So I, like a studious, dedicated and attentive student of the arts…ignored his recommendation entirely. (College kids are assholes, what can I say?)…
The latest stop on my Epic Film Quest brought me to 1960, with Billy Wilder’s five-award-winning Dramedy The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray. I am pleased to report that The Winz is giving this moviefilm two very enthusiastic thumbs up! Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, an office worker for a NYC…
(Spoiler-free) Let me start off by saying that I really did want to love this one, gentle readers. I did. But after watching Ridley Scott’s 2012 “Is-it-an-Alien-prequel-or-not?” Sci-Fi film about a team of explorers searching for clues to the origins of mankind, I must admit my feelings of disappointment and lack of enthusiasm toward the…
I stole this from someone who stole this, but apparently, Filippo Morani is the man to thank! Kudos to him and DOOM!
On my last Epic Film Quest review, I said I really, desperately needed a home-run film to come up soon. Well fuck me sideways, Sydney Pollack’s 1985 Romance Drama Out of Africa was not what I was looking for. It took a lot out of me, kids. A lot. But it did have some cool…
The latest movie on my quest to see every Best Picture winner in the history of forever was The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider. The film was the winner from 1971. It was directed by William Friedkin. I wasn’t a fan. I’m having another one of those “I didn’t really think this…
Although everyone and their adoptive mother’s third cousin has already reviewed Marvel’s latest superhero soiree, I would still be so, so remiss if I didn’t comment on the super-mega-ultra blockbuster. I’m somewhat remiss by posting this nearly a week after the powerhouse raped and pillaged the box office and made it its bitch, but dammit,…
The latest stop on my quest to see every single Best Picture winner ever: An American in Paris. So what does Gene Kelly have in common with Veganism and the Paleo Diet? Absolutely nothing at all! The Winz combined forces with Zoe over at SexyTofu for a Food and Films excursion, Part Dos! If you’ll…
Mostly everything you’ve already heard about The Cabin in the Woods is true. Yes, it’s almost impossible to truly showcase the film’s depth without getting all spoiler-y. Yes, Joss Whedon (and co-writer/director Drew Goddard) has done it again, creating one of the most unique and visual horror experiences in years. Yes, Cabin is perhaps the…