(Also known as the latest in an ongoing series which should be titled You Know That Movie Everyone Else Saw Six Months Ago? Yeah, I Just Watched It.) Actually, let’s get the review part out of the way: For a movie with a familiar, arguably tired narrative, wow is it good. Somehow, no matter how [...]
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Quickie Review(ish) – An Education
May 13th, 2010 · View Comments · movies, reviews
Tags:an education·british jews·carey mulligan·emma thompson·olivia williams·peter sarsgaard
Quick Thoughts: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
April 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · movies, reviews
If you haven’t yet, go see this movie. My friend Kim lays out all the reasons I would give, so go read her assessment. And then go. The one point in which I disagree with Kim is on the title. The original Swedish title of the book and the movie is Män som hatar kvinnor, [...]
Tags:girl with the dragon tattoo·man som hatar kvinnor·men who hate women·steig larsson
Fame: then and now
February 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · movies, reviews
So I watched Fame — the 1980 Alan Parker movie, not the (probably) inevitable 2009 remake — for the first time since I saw it as a kid (I must have been 12 or 13). Two scenes had stuck with me over the 20+ years before I watched it again: the Rocky Horror scene where [...]
Tags:1980·alan parker·coco·fame·rocky horror
On 500 Days of Summer
January 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · movies, reviews
First impression: I am going to hate this movie. Reason: the titles! Again! This time it was a ridiculous assemblage of cliches. Well, two cliches: 1) Split-screen ubercute home movies of our main characters, set to 2) one of those this-side-of-twee generic indie songs voiced by a woman who probably looks like a pixie. (It’s [...]
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On Duplicity: A quickie review(ish)
January 14th, 2010 · View Comments · movies, reviews
I’m trying this new thing of watching movies within a week of getting them from Netflix. I’d heard relatively good things about Duplicity and who am I to turn away Clive Owen, so I watched it last night. Straight off the bat the movie ticked me off in a couple different ways: first, within the [...]
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Part II, which is not so much about P&P, actually.
June 11th, 2009 · View Comments · books, movies
In my more pretentious and pompous years (I like to think that I have grown less pretentious as I’ve gotten older — I still have clear ideas on what is and isn’t culturally worthy, but my tastes these days follow their own path and not some dictated-from-on-high cultural fascist institution or individual) I was dead [...]
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