So here they are, my best of 2013. I’ll allow my two-month demurral and the list’s incompleteness (who does a top nine?) to speak for the sort of year I had in the theaters. Still, I saw enough to have an opinion and I’m going to share it with you.
Enjoy.
Posted in DVD/Blu-Ray, Full List, Lists, Oscar Nominee
Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Alfonso Cuarón, Destin Cretton, Entertainment, Ethan Coen, Film, Film Review, Fruitvale Station, Gravity, Guillermo Del Toro, Harmony Korine, Her, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, Martin Scorsese, Media, Movie Review, Movies, Opinion, Oscar Nominee, Pacific Rim, Reviews, Ryan Coogler, Short Term 12, Spike Jonze, Spring Breakers, Steve McQueen, The Wolf of Wall Street
Steve McQueen probably hated Django Unchained. Where Tarantino’s Django Unchained toyed with history’s facts to make the horrors of slavery a plot point, 12 Years a Slave is a film about a torture perpetrated on millions of black men, women and children. McQueen’s third feature isn’t interested in the audience’s comfort or catharsis, and tells a story full of vicious, hard violence and fractured souls. McQueen brings you as close as he possibly can to the horrors of antebellum slavery, not shying from bloody truths, and ultimately reminds us that far, far too often, history’s mad men and their ugly horrors go unpunished and unredressed.
Posted in Five Stars, Full List, In Theaters, Oscar Nominee, Oscar Winner
Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Entertainment, Film, Film Review, Lupita Nyong'o, Media, Michael Fassbender, Movie Review, Movies, Opinion, Oscar Nominee, Reviews, Sarah Paulson, Steve McQueen
Peter Wertz
Wertz of Wisdom 