Features
It’s time to really round out the year and offer up my picks for awards in 2005. In addition to the typical categories – which finally see their winners announced today – you’ll find some other fun arenas for awards citation. Call it a mish-mash of MTV-Awards-type kudos and other frequently heralded categories we find […]
Entries from December 2005
Best in show 2005: the year in superlatives
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:00 am · December 23rd, 2005
Filed in: Daily
If I had a ballot
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:00 am · December 21st, 2005
Customarily, here in the midst of our year in review, it is time for me to fill out my ballot. I do this every year, pretending, for one brief moment, to be one of the 6,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and fulfilling my own fantasies about who does and […]
Filed in: Daily
Are we there yet?: the best films of 2005
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:00 am · December 19th, 2005
Not to start my “Best of the Year” column off on a down note, but from the word go I had the slightest, nagging inclination that 2005 was going to be one of the most disappointing cinematic years we’ve come across. In many ways, my fears were realized – in some cases ten-fold. It all […]
Filed in: Uncategorized
REVIEW: “Munich” (**1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:46 pm · December 6th, 2005
Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” the big, mysterious player in this year’s Oscar game, has come. And as anyone could have expected, no film could have held up to the expectation. Not only, however, does the film fail to reach the spot reserved for it in everyone’s mind throughout the summer and fall shoot, but it settles […]
Filed in: Reviews
SHORT TAKE: “King Kong” (***)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:12 am · December 6th, 2005
I don’t feel like writing passionately about “King Kong” in the slightest. What I can say with utmost conviction is that the film affords too much of EVERYTHING. The story is bloated, with subplots that could have been fleshed out more succinctly by capable hands (I contend that Peter Jackson is not the most gifted […]
Filed in: Reviews
REVIEW: “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (***1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:48 pm · December 4th, 2005
Jeff Wells is half right when he says “There’s a new Best Supporting Actress contender in town…10 year-old Georgie Henley, the soul and natural light-beam of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’…came out of nowhere…but she’s Drew Barrymore in “E.T.” without the cloying I-know-I’m-cute-and-you’re-going- to-adore-me attitude. “Henley’s serene little-girl aura…her […]
Filed in: Reviews
SHORT TAKE: “The Producers” (***)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:00 pm · December 1st, 2005
I never saw the stage production of Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.” It was the certifiable “it” item of the 2001 Tony Awards (taking in a record-breaking 12 wins). Now I’m fairly sure the film production is the stage musical on celluloid, with the typical additives that enhance the overall world that inhabits the story. If […]
Filed in: Reviews
Archives
