The top 10 movies of 2009

I started making a 30-minute short film this year. Which means I stopped watching a lot of movies. There’s a heaping buttload I haven’t seen, but it is my general impression that most of the best stuff were small movies released quietly over the summer. And unless you were smart enough to check out the Tara in north Atlanta or the Plaza Theatre on Ponce, you missed out, and that sucks because I don’t think “Summer Hours,” in particular, is coming to DVD anytime soon.

The Top 10 so far and the craptastic, forthcoming fall movie season

So, it’s been an interesting first half of the moviegoing year. There’s been a decent number of fantastic movies, most of them surprises or lesser-known movies (which, actually, is a serious problem no matter how many cinephiles like championing shit you’ve never heard of). The last eight months were also the best shot you’ll have this year of seeing a wicked-awesome flick, but more on that in this very insightful hyperlink. Right now…

REVIEW: ’500 Days of Summer’

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in "500 Days of Summer"

Part of a series of reviews from 2009’s Atlanta Film Festival.

I’ve seen “500 Days of Summer,” and one thing is completely clear.

People are going to see the crap out of this goddamn movie.