Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Exploring the achievements and deficiencies of the popular Swedish thrillers.

FeaturesAnton BergstromMarch 5, 2011Noomi Rapace, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, thriller Comment

The Best Films of 2010

Anders and Aren each give their top ten films of 2010.

FeaturesAnders BergstromMarch 4, 20112010, Black Swan, Carlos, Inception, Mother, Norwegian Wood, Shutter Island, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Social Network, The Town, Top Ten, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Comment

Predicting the 2011 Oscars

Anders’ predictions for the 83rd Academy Awards.

FeaturesAnders BergstromFebruary 26, 2011Oscars, predictions, The King's Speech Comment

Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

Mindless fun for geeks, gamers, and hipsters.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromFebruary 26, 2011action comedy, Edgar Wright, Michael Cera, romance, Scott Pilgrim vs- the World Comments

Review: Jumper (2008)

Jumper unfolds like a movie made by an eight-year-old boy.

Flash Back, ReviewsAnton BergstromFebruary 26, 2011Doug Liman, fantasy, Hayden Christensen, Jumper, Samuel L- JacksonComment

Lawrence of Arabia and the Intimacy of the Epic

Is the label "epic" a valuable or meaningful label for a film at all?

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAnders BergstromFebruary 21, 2011David Lean, epic, Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole Comments

Review: Season of the Witch (2011)

A historical fantasy of staggering incompetence.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 20, 2011Dominic Sena, historical fantasy, Nicolas Cage, Season of the Witch, witchcraft Comments

The Worst Films of 2010

An examination of the worst films cinema had to offer in 2010.

FeaturesAren BergstromFebruary 16, 20112010, Alice in Wonderland, bad movies, Daybreakers, Eclipse, Greenberg, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, She's Out of My League, The Expendables, The Last Airbender, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The WolfmanComment

Review: TRON: Legacy (2010)

TRON: Legacy is fun and shiny, but there’s not much else to it.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromFebruary 12, 2011Jeff Bridges, science fiction, TRON: LegacyComment

2001: A Space Odyssey and My Evolution as a Cinephile

I once told a friend I thought 2001 was boring, but that I liked that about it.

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAnton BergstromFebruary 12, 20112001: A Space Odyssey, human evolution, outer space, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick Comments

Review: The Green Hornet (2011)

An incoherent action comedy that stumbles from one action or joke sequence to the next.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 11, 2011action comedy, Michel Gondry, Seth Rogen, superhero, The Green HornetComment

The Rogue Warrior and the Dirty Town in Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo gave birth to a whole new kind of cinema.

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAren BergstromFebruary 11, 2011Akira Kurosawa, samurai, Sanjuro, Toshiro Mifune, YojimboComment

Shutter Island and the Trauma of Modernity

Is Shutter Island just a thrilling genre exercise? Or is it rather a powerful reflection on the delusions of Modernity and the trauma of violence?

Essays, Movies TodayAnders BergstromFebruary 8, 2011Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, traumaComment

Review: The Thing (1982)

A great science-fiction horror movie!

Flash Back, ReviewsAnton BergstromFebruary 8, 2011Antarctica, horror, John Carpenter, Keith David, Kurt Russell, science fiction, The Thing, Wilford Brimley Comment