DVD REVIEW: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Let me tell you that it is not an easy task seeing all of the Best Picture nominees when you're not a professional critic! I've been scrambling to see the last ones in theaters, and finally got around to catching one of the two relatively quiet Best Picture wannabes: "Beasts of the Southern Wild." (The other nominee being that feel-good film "Amour" about old people dying, (in subtitles) which I have still yet to see.) Unlike last year while I dozed off during "War Horse" and was unsatisfied with "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," there hasn't been a movie nominated this year that hasn't blown me away in some fashion. "Beasts" kept up this streak, and that blown-away factor coming in the form of pint-sized force of nature Quvenzhane (Kwah-ven-juh-nay) Wallis, who I'll refer to as Q for the sake of review brevity! At the age of six Miss Wallis shows us how strong the human spirit can be, as Hushpuppy, a to...