Seldon's Blog

"DJANGO UNCHAINED": CONTROVERSY AND MYTH

Ever since the release of the 2012 Academy Award winning film, "12 YEARS A SLAVE", Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film, "DJANGO UNCHAINED" has been the target of a good deal of backlash and derision. Wait . . . I take that back. The film has received a good deal of derision even when it first reached the movie theaters during the early winter of 2012-2013. ( Read more... )

Usually around this time, I would list my ten favorite summer movies of a particular year. Unfortunately, the summer of 2014 proved to be a dismal season for films and I only watched six new summer releases. Due to the limited number, I decided to rank the films I actually saw: ( Read more... )

Below are images from "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2", the sequel to the 2012 hit film, 2012's "THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN". Directed by Marc Webb, the movie stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man: ( Read more... )

"WHITE HOUSE DOWN" (2013) Review

Since its release in the movie theaters, "WHITE HOUSE DOWN" has received a good deal of flak from movie critics determined to justified its failure to become a box office hit. But there are some offered another reason why the movie flopped nearly a month ago. And that reason centered around the release of another film some three months earlier called "OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN". ( Read more... )

Below is a list of my favorite movies set in Miami, Florida: ( Read more... )

Below is a list of my favorite movies released in 2012: ( Read more... )

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's new movie, "LINCOLN" and the upcoming release of Quentin Tarrantino's latest film, "DJANGO UNCHAINED", I found myself thinking about movies I have seen about slavery - especially slavery practiced in the United States. Below is a list of my favorite movies on the subject in chronological order: ( Read more... )