Crazy Heart is a monotonous and tired story about alcoholism that is brought to life by some great casting. As you surely have already heard by now, Jeff Bridges does indeed give one of his top performances as Bad Blake, an aging one-time country star who is now delimited to playing bowling alleys and dive-bars. Blake recalls the era of Outlaw country when legends like Merle Haggard and David Allen Coe wrote and recorded authentic songs from their hearts, not the mass produced products aimed at college girls and white trash that serves to make the Nashville record industry millions and millions of dollars today. Read more…

Tom Waits as 'Mr. Nick'

Terry Gilliam is fascinated by the power of the imagination. In Brazil he presents a Hollywood happy ending that only exists within the protagonist’s unconscious mind. With Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, he shows us what the imagination can turn the real world into when under the influence of heavy hallucinogens. With the Fisher King a catatonic homeless man played by Robin Williams hallucinates attacks from a dark knight. In 2005′s Tideland, a young girl uses her imagination to escape the horrors of her own life. Now with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Terry Gilliam once again explores the imagination to its most convoluted and perverse depths. This may be his most surreal work to date. Read more…