We at Writers Bloc love Scandinavian films. If you missed Denmark’s A Royal Affair, you can see it at the upcoming Scandinavian Film Festival LA.

With Amour, Austrian-born writer/director Michael Haneke has crafted his masterpiece.

David Thomson is a film critic, film historian, and cultural critic.  The New Biographical Dictionary of Film is a modern classic, and was voted by critics and writers to be the most valuable film book of all time. It also made it clear that David Thomson is one of the great film authorities of all time as well.  It’s a given that his Biographical Dictionary is a must-have to anyone who wants a quick reference to who-did-what-when in a movie or television show, despite the…

Another in a series of film reviews by film critic Jeannie Oppenheimer. Autumn in Hollywood signals the start of awards season, when studios and film companies release their more adult, intelligent, quality films (which is not to say there weren’t some real gems earlier in the year, most notably Beasts of the Southern Wild, Moonlight Kingdom and the French film The Intouchables). Argo, which opened two weeks ago, is bound –- deservedly –- for Oscar gold.  With its seamless intertweaving of drama, suspense and humor,…