Author Archives: Aaron & Alex

We know you’ve been waiting with bated breath! Here are the 2012 Ira winners: Best Costume Design: Kari Perkins, Bernie Best Editing: Todd Woody Richman & Tyler H. Walk, How to Survive a Plague Best Score: Dan Rohmer & Benh … Continue reading →

Here are the 100 best films of the 1950s, ranked according to the judgment of our august body: 1. The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953) 2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) 3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 4. … Continue reading →

Another Destination Iras! This year we’re going to beautiful Truro, MA, the hometown of our friends Howard and Ed, who are graciously hosting our grand ceremony this year. And again this year the Iras are a two-night affair: The first … Continue reading →

So, I guess it’s my turn. I don’t have many comments, aside from saying that in my ironic awards I was not targeting movies that you love, Alex—it’s just that you happen to love garbage movies (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel … Continue reading →

Alex: It looked terrible. It looked sun-kissed and sentimental. It looked like a bunch of uptight English prunes on a reluctant journey that ultimately reminds them of life’s joys. It looked racist. It looked like this year’s The Help. It had to … Continue reading →

Alex: So our beloved circle of film nerds/experts/snobs — I refer, of course, to the voting body of the Ira Awards — are now doing a decade-by-decade round-up, starting, this year, with the 1950s. By New Year’s Day each voter … Continue reading →

Aaron: Leave it to Alex to format his list in a special way that looks good and would take me an hour to replicate. Alex, you love, er, gilding lilies. So here is my list. I think we have a lot … Continue reading →

Alex: Meh. I mean, really, that’s pretty much what I have to say. Meh. Okay, the raid on the bin Laden compound is “wiveting,” as Babwa Wawa used to say, but the rest of Zero Dark Thirty — which begins … Continue reading →

So, welcome back to everyone. It’s been awhile since we posted anything. We both got tied up in “real life” and this blog fell by the wayside… But recently we got in a great discussion of a movie nobody has … Continue reading →

Alex: How did we all get it in our heads that Prometheus would be Ridley Scott’s “return” to some sort of artiste-ism? I think there’s been the sense around Prometheus that it would exhibit Ridley in his slower, more thoughtful … Continue reading →