Academy Expands Best Picture Noms to 10!

This is incredibly interesting news. I haven’t posted news in a long time as I’ve been focusing more on writing criticisms and reviews (I’ll have them up soon, after I see what is being considered the abomination that is “Transformers 2″).
But the fact that the AMPAS is going to expand their best picture nominations to [...]

R.I.P. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry

The voice of the U.S.S. Enterprise from the very first days of “Star Trek” all throughout every incarnation in the “Trek” canon had passed away. Majel Barrett, who was married to Gene Roddenberry – the creator of “Star Trek” – and has made a mark on the lives of Trekkies and Trekkers that will never [...]

Retrospective: The Cinema of Fred Zinnemann

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Time has not been kind to the once revered classic Hollywood director Fred Zinnemann. During the height of his career he was a filmmaking giant – with the likes of Hitchcock, Huston, and Kazan. Forty years later, those directors are now icons of cinema, while Zinnemann has unfortunately been forgotten. The director of Academy [...]

A New Home

Here I am… on my very own .com… indiebum.com isn’t really going to change what I did on Best Play Ever, Man, just gonna keep focusing on writing about film and all its wonders. I want to use this site as a jump-start into the film criticism world and I want all the feedback I [...]

First image from Be Kind Rewind

I can’t wait for this movie. Look it up if you haven’t heard anything about it, I assure it will be amazing. At least I hope so. It looks like they’re re-doing Ghostbusters in this scene. Enjoy!

Movies I’m looking forward to in 2007

Here’s the list of films I’m looking forward to this year, now that the Oscars are finally over. Some of these may not be Oscar-caliber, but they are ambitious and fresh (for the most part). Some of these I’m putting on for sentiment and others for necesity. Here we go.
Judd Apatow’s 40-Year-Old Virgin follow up. [...]