A completely awesome sidebar.

April 19, 2010

While googling, I actually managed to come across my post of Total Recall, somewhat randomly. And I have to admit, it is totally completely awesome that my magic Related Posts calculator is suggesting that if you enjoyed Total Recall, you might enjoy The Dead. And oh my god, if you enjoyed The Dead — YES: [...]

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The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans (2009)

April 18, 2010

Werner Herzog is quite the auteur, and so I couldn’t help but wonder why, while watching this film: why Werner? Why TBL:PoC:NO? What is this film’s reason for existence? The original, which I have vague memories of but am not convinced I’ve seen it in its entirety, is a complete conviction to excess, with all [...]

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Rescue Me: DNA (2004)

April 10, 2010

Isn’t it a little too soon to have Tommy’s youngest daughter in a car accident? With all the requisite “walk away Tommy” and dudes holding him back while he rages scenes, this must have been a Sweeps week or something. Nevertheless, the writing righted the ship a little afterwards, since this was used as a [...]

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Du levande [You, the Living] (2007)

April 10, 2010

Everyone with Netflix Streaming, you need to give this movie a shot. A pull-quote on the box compares it to Monty Python and Ingmar Bergman, and it’s not far off. It’s simultaneously drab and melancholy and yet what bubbles underneath is an understanding of this existential angst and depression that is nothing but joyous. I [...]

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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

April 5, 2010

Where the Wild Things Are finally gives “bowdlerize” its long searched-for binary: “Eggersize” (’cause it’s so much Bigger and Emotional!). I’m a little taken aback by the lurid melodrama here, which avoids being totally embarrassing because it’s so languid. Don’t get me wrong, it’s the right tone for the material, but here we have an [...]

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Humpday (2009)

April 4, 2010

Humpday is a film about straight dudes for straight dudes and its topic is the anxiety straight dudes feel about gay dudes. Two college buddies reunite – one has been a drifter, an artist, has hip hats that have cooler stories than anything he’s done; the other has built a life, has a home, a [...]

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Roger Ebert is my hero.

April 1, 2010

Look at this, from his review of The Last Song: “The Last Song” is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the screenplay. Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than [...]

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Alice in Wonderland (2010)

April 1, 2010

Alice in Wonderland was pretty trashy, and so continues Tim Burton’s slide into creating things to look at but not much else. Sweeney Todd worked pretty well for me on the whole (apart from H.B.C.’s singing – it’s still ringing in my ears), but Alice in Wonderland returns to the spectacle without girders. Granted, I [...]

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A Serious Man (2009)

March 31, 2010

The Coen Brothers’ latest picture, A Serious Man is a movie so steeped in a personal and religious history that it can be a little off putting. It follows Physics professor Larry Gopnik as he encounters some trials in his life: his wife wants to leave him and marry an old friend, Sy; his son [...]

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Rescue Me: Kansas (2004)

March 29, 2010

Rescue Me‘s central support system for Tommy Gavin is that of his family, and his wife is drifting away from him, saying he is no longer connected to reality. His children are growing up, etc. The wife wants to move away, to get out of the neighborhood of firefighters, where 9/11 has had a huge [...]

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