Pixar is kind of my favorite thing. No qualifiers or superlatives or anything, simply my favorite thing. Their latest film, Brave, is one of the most beautifully animated films. Again, no qualifiers. It is simply one of the most beautifully animated films. The green Scottish Highlands which provide the film's setting are arguably more beautiful than the real thing. Or I don't know, I've never been there. But probably.
The story is a little bit more classic Disney animation than…

Exit Through the Gift Shop is subtitled "A Banksy Film", which may lead some, including me before I saw it, to believe it's a documentary about the elusive street artist. It's not really, though. Rather, it's a film directed by Banksy about Thierry Guetta, a French "filmmaker" turned street artist who Banksy originally commissioned to make a documentary about the street art movement and what makes it important. When Banksy takes over the film himself and encourages Guetta to make…

Whenever I talk to people about my favorite movie quotes, I always point them to the Coen brothers' quasi-odyssey 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', and with good reason. This film is a perfect example of wonderful, deadpan humor in screenwriting, truly the Coens at their best.
The story, which draws several parallels to the greek poet Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, revolves around three escaped prison inmates searching for a hidden treasure in the Dust Bowl of Mississippi during the…

Moonrise Kingdom is a strange gem of a film that is at once visually stunning, absurdly and consistently hilarious, and soaked in a very Miyazaki-esque sense of melancholy wistfulness at the ephemera of childhood. IMDb tells me it's only 94 minutes long, but it's one of those movies where you enter kind of a dream state and lose track of how long you've been sitting in the theatre. It doesn't quite feel long or short.
It's shot in Anderson's characteristic…