Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is great. It has so many small, unusual jokes that make it great on repeat viewing (Billy! Just play dead!).

"The Old Man was still an artist with a Thompson."

Loved Pirates: A Band of Misfits. Really, everything about David Tennant's take on Darwin was great. It is a select audience. I went to see the film with a friend and four other people in the theater. We were the only ones laughing.

Children of Men is such a great film. I love the world building and the general lack of explanation. It's really a film that works best if you go into it completely cold. Don't read reviews, don't watch the trailer, just enjoy the experience.

I watched a lot of movies recently, so I'll spare everyone lengthy reviews/reactions to all of them. I've been watching films in three major categories: Oscar Best Picture winners (I'm so close to being finished, with only six films left!), AFI Top 100 list-1998 and 2007 lists combined (16 left on that list), and…

lol, I recognized Gaeta. I just wasn't as excited to see him. Helo was my favorite character.

Van Alden and Harrow team up in Chicago*

Yeah. she said "Welcome to the Planet" and they both almost laughed. It couldn't have been more obvious.

In general agreement with your review. I actually enjoyed just about everything. 

I need to keep track of information, so I'm going to become a print newspaper reporter in 2013 for the newspaper that didn't know about the spaceship until CNN got the scoop!

In short:
Abrams' Star Trek + Thor + WTF?! = Man of Steel. Lots of issues but I still enjoyed the crazy.

Authentic frontiersman giberish

There is no one in pop culture I've missed more than Ebert. His passing has created an immediate and vast emptiness in film criticism, online presence, and digital discussions that I don't think anyone is able to fill.

Turner Classic Movies really changed how I viewed films. My dad introduced me to older films but it was TCM that introduced the idea of textual analysis of films. It added so many dimensions to film watching and really turned it into a study of films.

I agree, they are in the same place and socially, at that time, women in film weren't given that kind of agency. What got my attention specifically, *SPOILERS FOR A REALLY OLD FILM* is the scene at Marty's apartment when he makes an advance and she pushes him away. I think the social pressure of being a "lady" mixed…

She was the little girl in "Corrina, Corrina"? I didn't know that. I watched that film several times as a kid. Weird thing is that Mac always looked familiar to me, I just couldn't place her.

I agree that the context of the particular year is important. That's half of what's interesting with the Oscar Best Picture winners as well. Hopefully as this feature continues he will not only describe the winning film but the other main competition films in order to give that "snapshot of world cinema" as you so…

It's interesting that you mention the feminist aspect of the film. After watching I ended up really wanting to know more about Clara's view of their evening together. You see everything from Marty's perspective, which is fine, but Clara's in an equally interesting position throughout the film. I would have liked to…

I was told for years that Marty was the favorite film of the grandmother I never met (who I, apparently, share several similarities with). After I finally got to watch it, I had an immediate moment of "yeah, that makes sense." It's just a warm film.

I've been going through Best Picture winners in the past year or so and Marty has been the most pleasant of surprises. Really just a wonderful film.