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Saturday, May 31, 2014

White Elephant Blogathon 2014: The Return of the Killer Tomatoes

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I got lucky the first two years I did the White Elephant Blogathon. Last year, my luck ran out, and this year...well, let me just say that ...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The Monster Who Would Be King

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There a few ways to watch the new version of Godzilla (2014, directed by Gareth Edwards). One way is to put it into context with other God...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

Better Angels

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Although it didn't invent the mid-franchise retcon for movies, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014, directed by Bryan Singer) does better...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Shrine to (of) a Lost Girl

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I decided to revisit Pandora's Box this morning. I've written about it before, so I won't rehash it. But I did want to share t...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Blogorama--1967 Edition

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Tis the season for blogathons. I'll be doing the 1967 blogathon next month. My films will be Seijun Suzuki's yakuza freak-out, Bran...
Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Announcing the John Ford Blogathon

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My friend, Anna, sent me a copy of the Ford at Fox box set on the condition that we run a John Ford Blogathon. Anna blogs over at Bemused ...
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Thursday, May 01, 2014

Alien Skin

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Under the Skin (2013, directed by Jonathan Glazer) is one of the most distressing horror movies I've seen in a good long while. It...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Waters of Lethe

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Elena (2012, directed by Petra Costa) is an example of the widening scope of the documentary. It's a film that suggests that the word,...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Homme Fatale

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I spent some time over the winter watching Mark Cousins's mini-series, The Story of Film . While there's a great deal in that serie...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

A Winter of Our Discontent

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo) is the best of the Marvel Studios Avengers movies, one that...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Welcome to the Dollhouse

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I was having a conversation with a friend of mine after seeing Wes Anderson's new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), when he menti...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Ashes in the Wind

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It's a given that Hayao Miyazaki's new film, The Wind Rises (2013) is beautifully made. Studio Ghibli is synonymous with beautiful...
Friday, March 21, 2014

True/False 2014: Brought to Light

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One of the instructions given to screeners for True/False is to treat documentaries as "cinema." Does a given film play well as a...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

True/False 2014: But Is It Art?

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Every year, several of the films at True/False are designated as "secret screenings." These are often films that are contracted t...
Friday, March 07, 2014

True/False 2014: Merchants of Some Death

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I saw a confluence of films surrounding the problem of violence and culpability for violence this year. There are always a steady stream of...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

True/False 2014: Hindsight is 20/20

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Long careers in the arts--particularly in arts that are thought of as "entertainment"--are hard to string together, so when someo...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

True/False 2014: The Higgs Boson Blues

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I don't know if it was by design--it probably wasn't--but one of the first line-ups of films at this year's True/False put Part...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014

True/False 2014: Lizzy Borden Had An Ax

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There's an old Harlan Ellison story called "Hitler Painted Roses" that postulates a woman who burns in hell for a murder she ...
Friday, February 28, 2014

True/False 2014, Preliminaries: Acting Out

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The True/False has started in earnest, but I've still got a couple of films from the screening process to write about. As I was saying ...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

True/False 2014, Preliminaries: Every Cut is a Lie

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The night before True/False opened, they launched their companion series, showing with the festival, of "neither/nor" films. This...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

True/False 2014, Preliminaries: Women and Men

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The True/False film festival returns to my fair city this week. I've been to every edition of True/False in some capacity. The last two...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Talkin' Roots Music Blues

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I've been trying to write about the Coen Brothers' new film, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) for weeks without success. The film is rec...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Netflix Roulette: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

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It's been a while since I gave the ol' Netflix Roulette Wheel a go. Spinning the wheel this weekend gave me The Extraordinary Adven...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Play's The Thing

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I don't have any deep insights into the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman beyond a vague distaste for the moralizing tone of some of its ...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

All Roads Lead To Rome

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"Late one night the club was heaving, I saw a vampire move across the floor. Old and white with a silver cane lusting for youth throu...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

Mulling Over 2013

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My ballot for the Muriel awards is due tomorrow and I have no freaking idea what's going to be on it. 2013 was one of those years that ...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Nothing Up My Sleeve...

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 Now You See Me (2013, directed by Louis Leterrier) is candy. It's a caper movie about magicians, which is a high concept that says ev...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Hearts of Ice

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Frozen (2013, directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee) finds Disney's animation unit making some sport of its own traditions. In doing...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

More Human Than Human

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I don't know what I was expecting from Spike Jonze's Her (2013), but whatever preconceptions I may have had weren't even on t...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Dragon's Lair

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In the taxonomy of movie monsters I keep in the back of my mind, the best dragons ever put on film are Vermithrax Pejorative from Dragonsl...
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