Over the month of March, we’re allowing our readers, such as they are, to vote in a championship-style bracket to determine the best film of 2015. Round 1 is over, with an unsurprising landslide in favor of Pixar’s latest, Inside Out, which means The Revenant is, appropriately, our first casualty. Round 2 is now live,…
…and we’re back. Due in part to popular demand and in part to our own desperation for site traffic, we’ve decided to bring back Rooster Illusion March Madness. Last year, over the course of the month, anyone who wanted to was able to vote in our championship bracket to determine the best film of 2014,…
I hated Birdman. The best review I read of the film opened by calling its writer/director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu a talentless fraud. This more or less hit the nail on the head. I’ve endured lengthy conversations with numerous people who liked or disliked Birdman to varying degrees, wanting to know exactly what I found so…
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