Best of 2012: Film

1. We Need to Talk About Kevin

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2. A Separation

3. Tree of Life

4. Midnight in Paris

5. The Descendants

6. Senna

7. Weekend

8. Drive

9. Martha Marcy May Marlene 

10. Beginners

Still Need to be Seen: Take Shelter, Kinyarwanda

Honorable mention:

Shame

Another Earth

Hugo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn

Tinker Tailor Solider Spy

Moneyball

Like Crazy

Young Adult

With one year off. I’m back.

SO… I decided i would take a year off from blogging to pursue other things with more vigor. I have returned and new content will be posted over the next few days.

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Best Of 2010 Music

Singles:

ALBUMS:

Number 1 Album:

Beach House – Teen Dream

 

The Black Keys – Brothers

 

Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

 

Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Grafitti – Before Today

 

Sufjan Stevena – Age of Adz

 

Best Coast –  Crazy For You

 

LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening

 

Gorillaz – Plastic Beach

 

Vampire Weekend – Contra

 

Thats my ten favorites. And yes I am a hipster, this reaffirms that…. sadly.

The Definitive Best in Film for 2010

So My list started getting put together a while ago but i held out until i felt I truly saw the best in this year’s batch of English Language motion pictures.

NUMBER 1: The Social Network

No surprise it seems to be everyones choice or what film  a slight majority are leaning towards:

2. 127 Hours

Danny Boyle’s first film after the success that was Slumdog is an amazing visceral and melancholy experience.

3.The Kings Speech

4. Animal Kingdom

5. Exit Through the Gift Shop

6. Toy Story 3

7. Winter’s Bone

8. Scott Pilgrim vs The World

9. Inception

10. Black Swan

And so That’s my top ten for 2010.

Other recommendations:

The Town

Never Let Me Go

Blue Valentine

True Grit

Shutter Island

Please Give

Cyrus

The Kids Are Alright

Kick-Ass

I Am Love

The Ghost Writer

Inside Job

The Fighter

Enter the Void

I have yet to see Biutiful which I was hoping to catch to see if it would be in my top ten but it has yet to be released in Montreal so when its does comeout Ill rank it accordingly.

To Cap off my recap of the films of 2010 here’s probably the primary reason I’ve recommended Enter The Void.

til next year…..////

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photographer Daniel Berehulak

X-mas Wish List

Here’s a list of the top 5 things that on my Christmas wishlist.

 

1. Elia Kazan Collection
2. Ereader
3. Red Dead Redemption (Xbox 360)
4. Xbox 360 Wireles Adapter
5. Epson Artisan Printer

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Pic of the Week

Ive been a fan of banksy since his work on the West bank barrier made international headlines but after a recent viewing of Exit through the gift shop, my enthusiasm is renewed. He’s my pic of the week.

Sweet deal