Monthly Archives: August 2011

Life During Wartime

Posted on 8/29/2011 by john

I had this Netflix DVD sitting on my living room table for about 3 or 4 days before I got the courage up to watch it. That’s how Todd Solondz’s films affect me, on the whole. I finally watched it … Continue reading →

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Surely they aren’t going to remake that?

Posted on 8/29/2011 by Chris

I was in an airport bookstore browsing for something to read while I waited to get re-routed around the hurricane, and I saw a new edition of Tinker, Tailer, Soldier Spy, It had the tag: “Soon to be a major … Continue reading →

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True Blood

Posted on 8/23/2011 by michael

I just watched Season 3 on DVD. I now officially don’t care any more…

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Short Films

Posted on 8/19/2011 by jeff

Help. I’m looking for a hand full of well-made short films for a class I’m teaching. It’s a three-hour, once a week class which is a new format for me (well, I did it last spring and I don’t think … Continue reading →

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Crazy, Stupid, Love

Posted on 8/14/2011 by reynolds

CSL‘s title has commas to spare, suggestive of a zaniness the film circles ’round but generally doesn’t care so much about. It’s missing a key modifier central to its impact: sad, painful, lonely. And that is determinedly NOT a complaint. … Continue reading →

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Super

Posted on 8/13/2011 by reynolds

James Gunn’s version of the superheroes-are-really-pathetic-losers film didn’t, on paper, seem to cry out for my attention. People said it was a lot more Travis Bickle than Kick-Ass, which was less deconstructive than delirious about the silliness of certain genre … Continue reading →

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Don’t squeeze the chairma…. ah, hell.

Posted on 8/5/2011 by reynolds

That a mysterious spiderlike executive called the Chairman circles around behind the scenes, spinning (and respinning) the Plan, while minions dressed like castaway extras from The Thin Man run around, turning peoples’ phones off like so many stiff-shouldered well-coiffed gremlins, … Continue reading →

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