Category Archives: Film
This Year’s Comic Con Has Brought Tears of Joy
This might be the best Comic Con ever. It’s like… the perfect storm of nerdom. There’s just so much good happening right now. Between now and next summer there’s just so much stuff happening, not to mention the fact that … Continue reading
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Six scandals that prove Hollywood was just as screwed up back in the day as it is now (pt. 2)
The “Suicide” of Thelma Todd The Background: Thelma Todd was a beautiful star of comedies in the late 1920s and early 1930s, best known for her roles in Marx Bros. comedies. She also enjoyed danger. But not the kind of … Continue reading
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Six scandals that prove Hollywood was just as screwed up back in the day as it is now (Pt. 1)
With all the Lindsay Lohans and Paris Hiltons getting drunk and not wearing underwear, and with all the Tiger Woodses plowing their way through every single halfway decent looking girl in America, a lot of people might think that the … Continue reading
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A Big Chunk of 2009 Films
Those limited release movies always start to open everywhere else in January and February of the next year. So there’s always period of one or two weeks early in the year where I’m trying to cram in as many of … Continue reading
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The Book of Eli – A Really Violent Movie About How Awesome the Bible Is
I’m Catholic, so I’m pretty down with the Bible. I think it’s pretty great, both spiritually and storytelling-wise. I mean, the Old Testament kind of rocks. There’s murder, there’s sex, there’s violence. It’s all pretty damn exciting. I don’ t … Continue reading
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
This isn’t a typical review. I could do the usual review thing, talk about all the technical aspects. Comment on the haunting cinematography, the perfect pacing, the stunning performances, the natural dialogue. But in the end, I don’t think that … Continue reading
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Top 10 of 2007
2008 has come to a close. In the next few months, I’ll be seeing all the movies that I missed in the theater on DVD, and all the movies that had limited release in December that open wide in the … Continue reading
I know it was you, Frank Miller. You broke my heart.
I went into The Spirit so excited. I love the original comics so much. The noir-iness. The tongue in cheek attitude. The just all around awesomeness. And I like Frank Miller an awful lot. He wrote some of my favorite … Continue reading
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Judgment at Nuremberg (and other Richard Widmark goodness)
I started writing this for Obscure Classics, and then I realized that this movie really isn’t an obscure classic, so I guess this is the place for it. Yesterday I went to Aeropostale to exchange a sweater my boss got … Continue reading
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