Favorite Films of 2012 and Favorite Posts of 2012

by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor

As a film blogger, I do see a considerable number of films/movies during the year, yet when it comes time to pick my favorites, and the Golden Globe Nominations are revealed, it becomes abundantly and disappointingly clear that I didn’t see nearly enough films/movies to make a proper judgment.

I also swear, I’m constantly doing write-ups on what I do see, but then at the end of the year, there’s a whole host of movies I never did a post about, or just a very short commentary on facebook. (by the way, please like my facebook page – it’s at 143 likes, 150 would be a nice beginning for 2013).

2012 Movie Slideshow. How many of these flicks did you see?

I’d like to give an honorable mention to Angelina Jolie’s In The Land of Blood and Honey (click for T & T post). It’s a 2011 movie and was nominated for Best Foreign Language film for last year’s Golden Globes; however, I screened it in the theaters January 2012, so it’s among my posts for this past year.

I gave a very good review to Loopers (click for post), yet strangely, at this point, the memory of the movie is not resonating with me as much as my post would suggest.

Silver Linings Playbook (click for post) doesn’t quite seem Oscar worthy; but there was a dearth of feel good flicks this past season, and it’s very cute and quirky. Plus, I got to take pics of director David O. Russell on the red carpet!

Saw very few Indie flicks this year, so by default I gotta say Beast of the Southern Wild, was my favorite. Mainly for the same reason everyone else thinks this is such a good film – 6 year-old, never before acted Quvenzhané Wallis completely blows you away! Beast of the Southern Wild was one of those I wrote about on facebook, but never did a post. I did however, shoot a video of producer Dan Janvey discussing the making of the film after the Philadelphia Film Society screening back in the spring. (see video below):