George Clooney and Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air.By Hap ErsteinFor once, we have to give the Golden Globe Awards credit for recognizing the smartest film in this year’s batch, Up in the Air, with a field-leading six nominations.The only catch is they have misunderstood the movie enough to categorize it as a drama, where it is actually a very dark satire of corporate America, … [Read more...]
Film feature: Hap’s top 10 films of 2009
Gabourey Sidibe in Precious.By Hap ErsteinAs a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association as well as the Florida Film Critics Circle, I have spent the last few weeks watching new movies about to be released that the studios made available either at special screenings or -- even better -- on “For Your Consideration” DVDs that arrived at my home almost daily by FedEx or … [Read more...]