Best motion picture of the year
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
WILL WIN: Slumdog Millionaire
SHOULD WIN: Slumdog Millionaire
Blame it on the economy or whatever excuse you want — the unrepentantly joyous and optimistic Slumdog Millionaire has struck a chord with America. The little film that could is snowballing (it has won 20-something critics [...]

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Beliefnet, a website dedicated to multi-faith dialogue, has announced its nominees for Best Spiritual Film, Best Spiritual Performance and Best Spiritual Documentary. Once again, I was honored to be one of the judges. Check out the results here.

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Tim Gordon (aka “Film Gordon”) and I dropped by BDK’s Movie Show again this weekend to help decide which film is greater: The Godfather or Goodfellas. You can listen to the two-part podcast here and here. Nell Minow (aka “The Movie Mom”) and I joined BDK for a segment focusing on whether or not Coraline [...]

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The Oscar nominations came out today and while most of the nominees were on par with expectations, there were a few surprises. I wish I could say they were all pleasant surprises.

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I was thrilled with almost all of the results of last night’s Golden Globe awards. While I predicted and was ecstatic to watch Slumdog Millionaire walk away with award after award, I was equally overjoyed with some of the more unexpected, but no less deserved wins, such as Colin Farrell for In Bruges, Mickey Rourke [...]

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Earlier today I “co-hosted” BDK’s Movie Show with my friend, Kevin McCarthy, aka BDK. We discussed the importance of film scores and predicted tonight’s Golden Globes. To listen to the two segments, click here and then click on the two segments beside my name. There will hopefully be many more of these to come in [...]

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Every year I hear friends bemoan the state of the film industry and lament that there were so few good movies to see. And each year I look at them, mouth slightly agape, and wonder what planet they’re from.
Granted, my situation is somewhat unique. I will probably end 2008 having seen roughly 130 films — [...]

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I am proud to be a member of WAFCA and to have participated in this year’s voting. We logged more films than we all wish to count over the past few weeks, but I am absolutely thrilled with the results. No doubt you’ll be seeing a repeat of some of the following press release’s information [...]

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This is a piece I wrote for the film website Cinemattraction. To read the original review/interview, click here.
Short films are the vast, undiscovered country of filmmaking. Most viewers relegate themselves to feature films alone, inadvertently walling themselves off from the audacious power of the short film. It would be a supreme fallacy to assume that [...]

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I was recently accepted as a member of the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association. The WAFCA is comprised of DC-based film critics from television, radio, print and the internet.

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