Film Review: Gone Girl

As Gone Girl kicks off the beginning of Oscar season, it also signals the start of my movie reviews. The goal is to review every single movie that I see in the theatre, as well as the occasional DVD/Redbox film.  At the very least it will make my life significantly easier when it's time to update my favorite 100 movies again.

Note: This post will contain spoilers, so if you haven't seen this film you may want to stop reading at this point. 

Gone Girl (2014)

Director: David Fincher

Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick Harris

Plot: "With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent."

Since You've Been Gone (Part Two)

In case you missed it in PART ONE we tackled the first half of the ten biggest articles I failed to write during the last 18 months.  In the second installment we look at the five biggest omissions to the King of Arguments blog since December of 2012.   

Since You've Been Gone (Part One)

For the few of you that have been following the King of Arguments since its inception nearly a decade ago, you have come to expect lengthy delays in between posts.  Going multiple weeks and even several months without publishing new content has been standard operating procedures.  

None were as long as the most recent one which thankfully came to an end a couple weeks ago.  It lasted an astonishing 18 months.  There were zero updates to this blog for all of 2013 and half of 2014.  It really does pain me to write that last sentence.  18 months.  That’s brutal.

I wake up every day and want to spend it writing.  That’s as true of a statement as I’ve ever wrote.  I get dressed for work right in front of my computer and think while staring at it, “one of these days I’ll be going to work right here.”  So you can imagine the peril it causes when I go an entire 18 months and fail to create one single new article.  

While it is true that the past is the past, and as our good friend Daniel Faraday instructed us on LOST, “whatever happened, happened” we are going to get back on the horse by taking a look at all that I missed since December of 2012.  These are the top 10 blog posts (or at least the cliff notes version of them) that would have been made had I not taken a sabbatical from this website.

Seven Mistakes By The Lake

December 16th, 2012.  Think of all that has changed in your life in the past 18 months.  My job has changed, my apartment has also changed, and incredibly even my favorite television show of all-time has changed.  Think of all that has changed around you.  LeBron James left Miami for Cleveland, Notre Dame made it to a BCS National Championship game, and Jimmy Fallon hosts The Tonight Show.  It really is staggering how much can happen and how much life can look completely different in just a year and a half.  And yet, it can look the same too.  Derrick Rose is still battling injury concerns, The Big Bang Theory is still the number one television show, and the Cleveland Browns are still trying to find a QB.