Monthly Archives: March 2011

Battle: Los Angeles

Posted on 3/20/2011 by Chris

This really doesn’t deserve its own thread, but I wasn’t sure where else to put it. Aliens invade, landing off 20 cities in 17 countries (the US is important enough to have three of its cities attacked; poor old Sweden … Continue reading →

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Lebanon

Posted on 3/5/2011 by Chris

Lebanon follows an Israeli tank crew through the first day of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. The director, Samuel Maoz, was in the IDF during that war. The film’s central gimmick, and I use that word reluctantly, is that the … Continue reading →

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Varmints

Posted on 3/4/2011 by reynolds

Gore Verbinski’s Rango riffs on the West and the Western, never quite escaping the gravity well of genre conventions; it also nimbly dances through the minefields of cheap reductive parody or punch(line)drunken gag-sap-gag-moral-gag-triumph which crowd the children’s animated film market, … Continue reading →

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