FERGUSON REVIEWS

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Ferguson — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:03:39 +0000

I’ve wrapped things up. It was needed.

Life isn’t over, though. Here is my new home.

FERGUSON OF A LIFETIME

Let the previews begin…

Ferguson — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:30:36 +0000

Here is just one of the projects lined up for Neckbrace Fest 4.0

Like I’ve said before…you should BE THERE ON JUNE 26.

NECKBRACEFEST

My 25 Favorite Films of 2009

Ferguson — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:56:21 +0000

Normally I do a list of my 30 favorite films of each year, but as I was constructing one this time around I just couldn’t find 30 strong enough to make a full list. So here are my 25 faves…

1.Up in the Air
2.Inglourious Basterds
3.Broken Embraces
4.A Serious Man
5.The Hurt Locker
6.Up
7.(500) Days of Summer
8.Knowing
9.Crazy Heart
10.Funny People
11.Away We Go
12.Humpday
13.Whip It
14.Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
15.The Informant!
16.Public Enemies
17.Avatar
18.The Girlfriend Experience
19.Fantastic Mr. Fox
20.I Love You, Man
21.Sugar
22.Whatever Works
23.World’s Greatest Dad
24.Notorious
25.State of Play

I’m wearing two different colored socks today.

Ferguson — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:39:18 +0000

It’s true. One is black and one is white, and they are even different brands.

Insane.

Anyway, to get to the real point of this spontaneous post…

If you haven’t heard already, the next Neckbrace Fest has been scheduled and the plans are gargantuan times fifty-six this time around. I’d say try with all of your might to be in attendance on Saturday, June 26th at The Real Lincoln Estate. For all of the info you need on the Fest, visit the OFFICIAL SITE.

Also, I went to a Tony Marshall/BLT/Montauk Monster show last night.

It was stellar.

My 30 favorite films of 2009 are next.

12th Annual Fergy Film Awards!

Ferguson — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:00:50 +0000

The abbreviated, long overdue list of winners…

BEST FILM
Up in the Air

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Broken Embraces

BEST DEBUT FILM
(500) Days of Summer (Director: Marc Webb)

BEST SOPHOMORE FILM
Sugar (Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. Their first film: Half Nelson)

BEST EXTREMELY LOW-BUDGET FILM
Humpday (Director: Lynn Shelton)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Up

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Food, Inc.

BEST CAST
Whip It

BEST DIRECTOR
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

BEST ACTRESS
Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jaosn Reitman (Up in the Air)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds)

BEST EDITING
Sally Menke (Inglourious Basterds)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Up (Michael Giacchino)

BEST SOUNDTRACK
Away We Go

BEST CAMEO (new category!)
Bill Murray (Zombieland)

BEST COMEDY
The Hangover

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCES
Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover)

BEST COMEDIC SCREENPLAY
Judd Apatow (Funny People)

BEST SUSPENSE THRILLER
Knowing

MOST SURPRISING FILMS, FOR THE BETTER (in alphabetical order)
17 Again
Adventureland
The Great Buck Howard
Jennifer’s Body
Knowing
Notorious
Orphan

MOST DISAPPOINTING FILMS (in alphabetical order)
Drag Me To Hell
Extract
The Informers
Invictus
The Soloist
Where The Wild Things Are

MOST OVERRATED FILMS
My Sister’s Keeper
Star Trek

WORST FILM
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
followed by…
My Bloody Valentine
New In Town
Terminator: Salvation

Since I didn’t list my nominees this year, here are the films that definitely deserve mention that would’ve ended up on the nominees list had there been one for you to see…

Big Fan
Brothers
The Brothers Bloom
The Cove
District 9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Girlfriend Experience
The Hurt Locker
I Love You, Man
The Informant!
The Invention of Lying
Lymelife
The Men Who Stare At Goats
The Merry Gentleman
Observe and Report
Public Enemies
The Road
State of Play
Watchmen
Whatever Works
World’s Greatest Dad

Dr. Strangelove I am not.

Ferguson — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:46:54 +0000

Well, it seems as though I lied yet again in my last post. You know what I’m talking about without even looking, I know it. Today is March 20th, 2010. My last entry was near the end of the previous year, leaving nearly three months of time between posts, which by this point comes as no surprise to any of you, nor me, and it’s saddens me…yet I am the only one who can prevent such a drought. Or can I? It’s become more and more apparent to me as of late that it was never that I was a writer with a frequent case of the block, but rather I’m just a person who writes whenever the hell his mind feels it’s okay to open up the gates of thought, which in my case only happens in spurts that are way too far apart. Whatever the case may be, it’s evident that I need to stop making the promises of postings and just be good with the fact that I will write whenever I am supposed to, so then I will not pressure myself to put something down at any certain time.

With that being said, I am definitely not going to let this recent drought erase my annual Fergy Film entries. They are still coming, even though this will be the first year that they are posted AFTER all of the major awards shows have aired. It’s actually for the better this time, because it has been over the last month or so that I have been able to brush up on seeing most of the important films of 2009.

I love you.

A Revival, or, How I Learned To Stop Delaying Between Posts and Love the Bomb

Ferguson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:31:01 +0000

It’s that time again.

Of course I must be talking about that time when the recollection of the year’s cinema and music help me come out of supposed hiding to finally reveal a boat-load of thoughts condensed into massive lists and nominations for my annual Fergy Film Awards. Apparently it must also be time for my trademark, incoherent run-on sentences as well. Oh well, at least I’m posting again, albeit warts-and-all.

I’m getting just as amped up for the individual postings of my regular 100 favorite songs and 50 favorite albums of the year, not to mention the 30 films of the year and whatnot…but what makes this go-’round extra-special is the fact that this is not only time for year-end lists, but also decade-end ones. So it goes without saying that there promises to be a ton of activity at Ferguson Reviews over the course of the next two solid months at least. The decade lists have been unbelievably thorough and a joy to construct, which I’ve been doing off and for the last four months combined, and am still attempting to glue together. It’s imperative to not that this will be the first comprehensive decade list that I have had the chance to make to this point in my life, seeing as the entire decade, from the beginning of 2000 until these last final days of 2009, I have been deeply into the movie theater – inside and out. 1999 was the first year that I found myself a true movie-lover, so I dove head first into the new decade and millennium with a never-ending mission in mind, and I think I’ve made good as best as I could on that. It’s hard to believe that ten full years have went by as quickly as they did, with each year passing by far more rapidly than the one that preceeded it. I’m in the midst of completing a massive set of lists and Fergy Film nominations and awards, chief of which being MY 100 FAVORITE AMERICAN FILMS OF THE DECADE.

Coming immediately will be the 50 albums and 100 songs lists, and then as January moves along and I continue to see the essential films that are needed to make a conclusive cinema list for 2009, there will be the 12th annual Fergy Film Awards. Special thanks must go to Noah East for suggesting that I also do a special Fergy Film Awards for the entire decade. Expect that to arrive before the annual awards themselves, for I have almost entirely compiled those choices. It’s the most exciting time of year for me, which in turn makes this blog finally active. I’m ridiculous.

Stay tuned.

Awesome Music Video Postings of 2009: #23

Ferguson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:30:32 +0000

The first music video from Ola Podrida’s excellent new record, Belly of the Lion.

THIS OLD WORLD

Live from Neckbrace Fest 3.0

Ferguson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:38:31 +0000

Inching Closer

Ferguson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:18:47 +0000

As we enter the last week of principal photography for Leaving, we stand at 10 scenes out of 13 being filmed in their entirety and ready to go to the cutting room floor. It has been a productive and fun-filled 4 weeks of collaborating with friends and family, to say the least. We’re going to knock out the last three scenes we have scheduled this week, then I am going to dive head first into the editing process. We plan to have this available for your eyes in early October.

See you soon. In the meantime, here is your entire cast and crew list…

Cast
Robert Mathison
Andy Ferguson
Chris Baker
Josh Short
Lauren Hoover
Matthew Kruger
Dean Moore
Dave Elwert
Joel Levi
Daniel Brennan
Randy Rogers
Ewan Hofmann
Original Songs and Score
Tony Marshall
Editing
Andy Ferguson
Writer
Robert Mathison
Director
Andy Ferguson