The Center Seat

This one is tearing it up on the awards circuit this year. It just won Best Motion Picture - Drama at the Golden Globes last Sunday, but it also snagged what I think is a much greater honor: the best-reviewed movie of 2008 by the members of the LAMB (my kickass movie association), with an average rating of 5 LAMBs!

I also really enjoyed it. It was the first movie I went to see with Nuevo Man; afterwards he said what has come to be his standard post-indie movie observation: "I liked it a lot more than I thought I would." There's hope for him yet, folks.

Below are some stellar reviews of this stellar movie by some stellar movie bloggers. Please do click through and support my friends.

The Dark of the Matinee (****)
Getafilm (A+)
Doodad Kind of Town ("I could literally feel my spirits soaring")
Blog Cabins ("It's in the hole!" [aka Excellent]) ...Click here for the rest of this tasty post.

I massively enjoyed Man On Wire, a documentary about a guy who walked a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. I shit you not.

Click on the links below to read some reviews by two of my favorite movie men.

Fletch at Blog Cabins
Daniel G at Getafilm

My fellow Minnesotan movie blogger (and fellow LAMB) Daniel G at Getafilm wrote this sweet, poignant post on the demise of three theaters in Roseville (one of our best suburbs), after an AMC 14-plex moved in.

The megaplexes (while very pretty) are sucking up all our memories.

Read the post here.