So that’s it for 2009!  And so another year — and our second year of Motion Pictures — draws to a close!  Thanks so much to everyone who’s made a visit to this site part of your regular routine.  Hope you’ve been enjoying what you’ve been seeing!

Last week I posted my buddy Ethan Kreitzer’s list of his favorite fifty films of the last decade, and my response to his selections. With 2009 drawing to a close, there have been a lot of other fascinating Best of the Decade lists floating around.  Here are some good ones: The

Ever since Snatch back in 2000 I’ve been waiting for Guy Ritchie’s next great film.  Finally, just squeaking in before the close of the decade, it has arrived: Sherlock Holmes. As you’re all probably very well aware, Sherlock Holmes stars Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes

Leo has a great mind for planning heists, and seeing all the angles of a job.  But he also has a strict series of rules that he has created for himself.  He feels those rules have kept him out of prison, though they have lead others to label him a coward.  When he’s lured int