The Cinema of the 2010s: The Music

I’m gonna start my coverage of the best that the movies had to offer this decade although I don’t think I’ll have a list of my favorites of the decade that I can stand by until March at the earliest, especially since I have to do a 2019 lists first. But I’m gonna start now with genre or category-specific lists to not just dump everything at once.

Today, we are starting with the following music-specific categories: Best Musical, Score, and Songs Written for Motion Pictures.

We Can Be Heroes! 2012 Cinema in Review

2012, more than any other year, felt like a time when the world needed real heroes. Given all the political bullshit that went on around the globe (especially here in the United States), the man-made tragedies such as the shootings in Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut, and the various natural disasters, it felt like we needed someone to come down and set things right. Even at a personal level, I wanted someone to guide me through some difficult inner struggles, someone who would make things aright at the blink of an eye. Well, as we all know things don’t happen like that as the most common acts of heroism are small and go unnoticed by many. But every once in a while we get to see heroes that make a lot more noise, and inspire us to do our part in changing the world, if only for a few seconds. People like the Pakistani school girl who was shot in the heard by the Taliban simply for demanding equal education for girls in her country, the Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher who gave up her life protecting her students from the rampage of a mad man, and the man who saw the lost and scared kids who escaped from that same massacre and brought them into his home to comfort them are real life, inspiring heroes, not because they changed the world, but because they did what they felt was the right thing to do, and they truly changed the lives of a few people.