Consider: The Blue Umbrella for Best Animated Short Film

Review: Somers Town (2008)

Tomo and Marek.

Directed by Shane Meadows
Produced by Barnaby Spurrier
Written by Paul Fraser (screenplay); Mother Vision (idea)

Starring Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson, Elisa Lasowski and Kate Dickie

Five Films in Five Words #7

Here's another batch of newer films.

1988 CinSpec Awards

Winners indicated (*). I still need to see films like The Thin Blue Line, High Hopes, Damnation, School Daze, Talk Radio, Torch Song Trilogy, Bird, Salaam Bombay!, Clean and Sober, Hairspray, Punchline, Little Dorrit, Dominick and Eugene, The Big Blue, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, A World Apart, Distant Voices, Still Lives, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, The Milagro Beanfield War, Things Change, Heart of Midnight, Tequila Sunrise, Beaches, Story of Women, Married to the Mob, Willow, and Young Guns.

Review: Midnight Run (1988)

Jack and "The Duke".

Directed by Martin Brest
Produced by Martin Brest
Written by George Gallo

Starring Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, John Ashton, Yaphet Kotto, Joe Pantoliano, Dennis Farina and Philip Baker Hall

Films I Saw in June

Before Midnight

The Best:

1. Before Midnight - ****
2. The Hidden Fortress - ****
3. Faces - ****
4. This is England - ****
5. Another Woman - ****
6. Straight Time - ****
7. Primer - ****
8. The Vanishing (1988) - ****
9. Red River - ****
10. The Blue Umbrella - ****

2013 CinSpec Awards (So Far)

Before Midnight

In lieu of doing a winners post, I decided to reveal my entire ballot for the first half of 2013. Again, I haven't seen everything, but I've seen most of the highlights. Winners indicated (*) and pictured below.