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Black Swan

Oscar 2011

This year, ten films are nominated for the award of Best Picture. I present to you in order of worst to best. 10. Winter’s Bone This film is the reason why the Academy Awards should not have been extended to ten films. Here we have a boring film about a girl wandering from house to house asking, “Have you seen my daddy?” 9. The Social Network Meh. It’s an okay film, but it’s surely not as AMAZING as everyone was saying it is. It’s an interesting tale, and it’s well filmed, and it’s well acted, but nothing in there is special. Worth watching at least. 8. 127 Hours I wrote… Read More »Oscar 2011

Black Swan

When I was invited out to see one of the new buzz films Black Swan, I really had no idea what to expect. I had heard the name bandied about, always with something good to say, and I had seen that it was a ballet film, but I hadn’t even seen the trailer. After watching the trailer, I was underwhelmed, but I felt the same way based on the trailer for Inception, and was blown away by the film. Black Swan did the same. Who would’ve thought a ballet film could be this good? Black Swan is about a ballet dancer in a major metropolis’ company, forever dancing on the… Read More »Black Swan