On Monday, in response to the New York Times‘s list of the Top 25 Films of the Century So Far, BPoFD announced its own list of the Top 25 Films of the Century So Far. Now, […]
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Category: Movies
BPoFD’s 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far
Last week, The New York Times released its list of the 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far, with accompanying commentary from two of its better critics, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, as well as […]
The BPoFD Summer Movie Preview: 2017 Edition
In summer the movie house is everything but quiet, its worlds all chaos, raging. Is the summer night like a perfection of thought? Not for the moviegoer, who shuffles from outside heat to cool theater […]
My 2017 Oscars Ballot
This Sunday, the 89th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Here are my predictions for some of the categories. Best Picture What Will Win: La La Land What Should Win: Moonlight […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part 3
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part Two
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Rogue One
Midway through Rogue One, the first Star Wars anthology film, Darth Vader uses the Force to choke Orson Krennic, Commander of the Galactic Empire. Then, while Force choking Orson Krennic, Darth Vader says, “Don’t choke on your aspirations.” Or […]
