Mark Whelan Best of the Decade

Best Of The Decade Like Father Like Son (2013) Text Only Version Hirokazu Koreeda’s Like Father, Like Son (2013) boldly questions the explanation of what constitutes as “family.” The multi-talented Masaharu Fukuyama lays out, in heartbreaking earnestness, a typical Japanese businessman driven by ambition and success, only to have his world come to a screeching … [Read More]

Best Of The Decade Mad Max Fury Road (2015) Text only version below After thirty years is it possible to meet expectations, let alone exceed them? Truth be told, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome { 1985) warranted no sequel. Though arguably the weakest of the trilogy, especially shadowing Mad Max 2 ( 1981 ) or The … [Read More]

Best Of The Decade The Social Network (2010) Text only version below It’s hard to imagine a world without Facebook. Ever since it originated in 2004 and slowly but surely integrated into our everyday lives (and in turn spawning countless variations to its likeness) the idea that modem life existed at all without Mark Zuckerberg’s … [Read More]

Best Of The Decade How To Train Your Dragon (2010) Upon its release, How To Train Your Dragon (2010) was, like several computer–generated animated films at the time, capitalizing on newfound 3D technology. However, dissimilar to some features utilizing this application, it was recorded with this specific implement from the onset and the result is … [Read More]

Best Of The Decade The Avengers (2012) I doubt even Dr. Strange at his most omniscient and clairvoyant had any grasp of what to expect when Iron Man hit theaters in the summer of 2008. It was a bold move to cast Robert Downey, Jr. (an actor sort of fresh off rehabilitation) as the tin-headed … [Read More]

Best Of The Decade Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil (2010) Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010) went through quite an ordeal just to find a way to be seen. Had it not been for film critic Leonard Maltin’s zealous championing of the film, 1 would’ve never come across this highly original and hysterically brilliant horror/comedy. … [Read More]

Best Of The Decade The Revenant (2015) Accessible text version below: T H E R E V E N A N T If you walk into The Revenant ( 2015) expecting an historically accurate rendition of real-life pioneer Hugh Glass you will be disappointed. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s broad adaptation of that specific source material (yet … [Read More]

Best Of The Decade Your Name  

When James Cameron‘s Avatar smashed into cinemas in late 2009, its immediate success promised a new era in motion pictures: a third dimension. This wasn‘t an antiquated novelty of red and blue shaded lenses, but a technological leap ushering in a revolutionary and exciting way to experience moviegoing. However, try as it might, that evolutionary … [Read More]