FILM 
The Murderer’s Apprentice
The Mechanic
Things you’ll never hear: “I want to see that new Victorian-era romance starring Oscar-winner Jason Statham.” J-Stat is so synonymous with cinematic violence, someone should update the Wikipedia entry for “action movie” so it’s just a picture of his grimacing, bald cabeza covered in blood. In an ever-changing world, the only constant is Jason Statham’s movie murder spree.
The...
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Daily Dump for Tuesday (February 1)
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE? I lost a whole month of 2011. I mean, sure, it was January, which is so barely a month it may as well be February, but still...it can't seriously be 1/12th of the year in the tank already, can it? Man, I've got a get my act together. Speaking of getting one's act together: What's worse, Snowpocalypse 2011 or the COVERAGE of Snowpocalypse 2011? I have heard this called...
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Daily Dump for Monday January 31
Sorry I've been gone. Things are busy, busy, busy right now, and honestly nothing other than Sundance sales were happening much last week. Also, did I mention the busy? Because I was crazy with the busy. And I don't mean things like "watching great television like 'Community' all day" busy. I mean "Dear God, grant me the opportunity to pause this madness long enough to void my bowels" busy. I far...
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Tchai-Kafka-sky’s Swan Lake
Black Swan
Director Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is just your run-of-the-mill “girl haunted by doppelgangers while turning into a human/swan hybrid” ballet movie with elements of bisexual experimentation. In other words, writers Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin are a collective Dr. Frankenstein, standing over a creation that is part horror, part pure beauty. Firmly entrenched in...
entered on 01/28/11 at 09:32 PM | read more »
Fact and Diction
The King's Speech
Remarkably unremarkable and tonally mundane, director Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech was seemingly genetically engineered by a mad scientist named Juan Tan-Oscar. Quasi-historical and wholly predictable, the film would have been dismissible as icky chum for suit-wearing Academy sharks were it not for Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth. Their tête á têtes are more frosty diction than Frost/Nixon...
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Falling in Lust
No Strings Attached
Director Ivan Reitman is best known for ridiculous, male-dominated comedies like Ghostbusters and Stripes, but his latest, No Strings Attached, is like a romantic-comedy masterclass. Not that it’s a masterpiece of the genre, but it so expertly strikes all the right nerves that it’s still a little irresistible.
One drunken night and one impulsive morning are all it takes to bring former...
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Cutting Room for January 26
- If it’s hard to keep a good woman down, imagine how hard it is to stop a “Wonder Woman.” Answer: Really hard. When Joss Whedon’s pitch for a new big screen version was treated with all the respect of a Joss Whedon project, David E. Kelly stepped in and took it to TV … where everyone initially passed on it as well. But it all worked out when Kelly remembered that NBC is still technically...
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A bus ride that's just an average bus ride that feels like no average bus ride. |
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Do you like awesome? Because this has lots of awesome. |
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One can't physically be drunk enough to make this fun. |
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Not quite "boldly," but this sequel still "goes" pretty far. |
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A silent, Spanish retelling of Snow White with bullfighting is better than it sounds... |
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An abstract-but-understandable romance/thriller/sci-fi/mystery. |
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Who didn't read the book and imagine a Jay-Z score? |
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It's the slow Romanian melodrama you've been (not) waiting for! |
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Fade to BlackoutThe Hangover Part III is so jaw-droppingly terrible, America deserves an explanation. Not because this series has become...
Kobayashi MagooIf modern nerd culture has a “patient zero,” it was Mr. Trekkie (or Miss Trekker, if you’re nasty). Their legendary...
No Bull! Shh…A silent film reimagining Snow White shot in black and white and set in Spain, in which the heroine is a bullfighter, is...
Twisty Pig TaleWriter/director Shane Carruth’s 2004 film, Primer, isn’t just a great time-travel movie; it’s one of the best science...
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