Butler's 2010 Favorites

Butler keeps the pop culture superlative train running smoothly with his pick for top video game, movie, and novel of the year.  Is he completely full of it? Find out after the jump!

Review Black Swan

Ahhhhhh Darren Aronofsky. He seems to really enjoy movies that are heralded as being higher art (in some ways they are I suppose), but are really known for just being super depressing. The kind of films where when you finish watching, you can only sit there and wallow in the utter depression he's created...people having their entire lives ruined by drugs, a man haunted by the fact that he couldn't find a cure for cancer in time to save his dying wife. You know, real sunshiny stuff.

Still, his films are usually worth seeing once, as he can employ a pretty good visual style and you often see good performances. His latest is Black Swan, a melodramatic thriller that explores the light and dark sides in a fragile ballerina played by Natalie Portman.