: About Me

Hi-ho to the Helium Community!

My name is Scott, I am 24 years old, and live in Easton, Mass. (just south of Boston) I am new to this community and just wrote my first article, a movie review for the 2005 film "Crash" which won the Best Picture Oscar that year. Check it out. I am looking to get into writing, and am hopeful to eventually find my way into film criticism, though I know those jobs are hard to come by. For those who are interested (and who may be movie freaks like myself), I have a great love of film history and love the classics. Here is a brief list of movies that I can safely call all-time favorites of mine (and there are many, many others):

Billy Wilder's The Apartment, Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise, Ernst Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait, John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, and on and on...

There are some great modern ones too, such as Gangs of New York, City of God, and others. But I will stop boring everyone will my history lessons. Instead, I will keep writing and reading articles, and enjoying hearing what everyone has to say.

Cheers.

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: No Country For Old Men

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"No Country for Old Men" is a sharp, smart, contemplative crime saga, impeccably crafted by two men who know exactly what the hell they're doing behind a camera: the Coen brothers. They know how to make good movies - they've been doing it for over two decades now. In 1984, they burst onto the moviemaking scene with the furiously inventive film noir "Blood Simple." That film starred Joel Coen's wife, Frances McDormand, who would eventually land the role of a lifetime (and win an Oscar) as homey, pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson in 1996's "Fargo," which was a smashing success for the Co...

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