As the days and weeks approach, we’ll start to hear more and more about the “best movie(s) of the year.”  To hear about one of these, and one of the year’s best performances, you’ll most likely have to tune into the Independent Spirit Awards.  Goodbye Solo, should have been nominated for Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards but seems to have been crowded out by more mainstream indies (Precious and (500) Days of Summer).  Thankfully, its lead actor, Souleymane… Read more

After watching Creation, the film supposedly about Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, one is left wondering what all the American fuss was all about over the film and why it had such trouble securing an American distributor.  As one viewer who was looking forward to seeing this film, I almost with it hadn’t. (more…) Read more

Richard Lindsay reviews A Single Man after the jump. (more…) Read more

Crazy Heart is this year’s The Wrestler, and that’s not a bad thing.  Without the violence and the real-life comeback story of a washed-up actor, Crazy Heart cuts to the heart of The Wrestler’s narrative of a once-great entertainer who has alienated his family and searches for some sort of redemption…or at least a return to relevance. (more…) Read more

Like Punxsutawney Phil, Ernest Myers usually makes an appearance at Pop Theology around this time of year.  This year, Ernest and I have a quick conversation about the Oscar nominations announced yesterday, what we think should win, what we think will win, and what we didn’t see.  (more…) Read more