The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on March 10, 2010

The war on drugs is unlike any other.  Sides are blurred.  Friends become enemies and vice versa.  Soon, everyone is a victim, especially children. In Traffic, many stories intersect each other.  A wife in an upstanding community realizes her husband has been running a drug company.  Two Mexican pol   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on March 9, 2010

What are two things guaranteed to make women melt?  Chocolate and Johnny Depp.  You have been warned, so try not to drool. Vianne, a single mother, and her young daughter open a chocolate shop in a quaint little village in the French countryside.  The whole village is ridged and weighed...   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on March 9, 2010

Looking for a drama that doesn’t bog you down?  Erin Brockovich is a light hearted drama about a single mother with three kids, two ex husbands and needs a job.  After losing a case, she goes to work for her lawyer and finds unusual medical documents in a real estate...   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on March 8, 2010

First off, I confess that this movie was playing on a flight between Munich and Atlanta and I didn’t watch it.  I was fifteen and thought it was just another kung-fu movie.  I guess after being in another country, I wanted to hear some English and when I woke up...   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on February 28, 2010

I held my first Oscar today, I can’t think of a more perfect way to start this blog. Here’s the project: watch and review all Best Picture Nominees for the history of The Academy Awards.  That’s about 470 films between 1928 and 2009.  Ideally, I plan on knocking them all...   read more