Tag Archives: Ben Affleck

The Oscars 2013 postmortem

February 25, 2013 flawintheiris

Question One: Why do the Golden Globes work while the Academy Awards so frequently don't?I really enjoyed the Golden Globes this year. You know why? Because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association really knows how to do it. They don't try and reinvent the wheel. They put on a party where celebrities drink and eat and… Read More

Reviewers’ Remorse and Assembling the End-Of-Year-List

December 16, 2012 flawintheiris

Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty, a late season arrival in cinemasThis isn't something you hear much about from people who write about the movies: reconsideration. Part and parcel of critical witness is a kind of terminal certainty: This is my damn opinion and I'll defend it until Satan gouges out my eyeballs with his… Read More

Argo review

October 25, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Ben AffleckWritten by Chris Terrio from a Joshuah Bearman article in Wired MagazineThis is a story I'm familiar with. My folks were in the Canadian diplomatic corps, so Canadian Ambassador to Iran in 1979, Ken Taylor, was something of a big deal in Dad's business. Taylor and his wife, Pat, helped get six… Read More