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Title: Blonde Venus
Grade: B-
Times Viewed: 1
Date Reviewed: 04/25/05
With the exception of Blade Runner, the worst movie of the semester was still not terrible. If ever there was a reason to be angry at Hollywood for self-censorship (and not for violence/sexuality/etc.), this is it. The complete train-wreck of an ending highlights just how much studio interference […]
Title: North By Northwest
Grade: A
Times Viewed: 1
Date Reviewed: 04/25/05
A worthy and exciting opening to the semester, Hitchcock’s non-stop chase story of mistaken identity still packs quite a wollop and shows that explosions are not needed to make taut action movies (although shootouts on top of Mount Rushmore help ;-)). Blending appropriate amounts of comedy (both […]
Artist: Terence Blanchard
Title: 25th Hour Finale
Date: March 19, 2005
Spike Lee’s movies are well known for being political in nature, and if there’s one thing his films can boast, it is a strong confrontation of the socio-political issues of the present. While other films released in the wake of September 11th hurriedly chopped out any […]
Artist: The Dust Brothers
Title: Commissioner Castration
Date: March 16, 2005
From the soundtrack to one of the awesomest movies ever, America’s Dust Brothers (not to be confused with England’s ex-Dust Brothers) prove that they can not only produce an album for themselves (as opposed to for The Beastie Boys), but can make it a cohesive, kick-ass soundtrack […]
Wow, I was blown away by this 4-part discussion of which constitutes “high art” in our times (movies or books). As someone who tries hard to keep up with the tide of amazingly good movies being released year after year (and which shows no signs of being stemmed) [and while many of these are not […]
I saw Donnie Darko (Director’s Cut) in theatres last night. Read more here.
Tags: donnie darko
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Title: Maria Full of Grace
Grade: B-
Times Viewed: 1
Date Reviewed: 09/06/04
After watching the trailer for this movie, I was very excited to go see it. And it was good. But it was nowhere near my expectations for it, even more so because I feel it easily could have been, except for one fundamental mistake made by […]
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Quentin Tarantino’s Blog is pretty funny.
Tags: quentin tarantino
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I’ve decided that rather than write reviews of movies myself, I’ll just post links to good reviews (which will probably be from FlakMag). Occasionally I may supplement these with my own comments, but in general I find that they do a much better job of saying exactly what needs to be said than I could […]
Title: Anchorman
Grade: B
Times Viewed: 1
Date Reviewed: 07/26/04
Read Flakmag’s excellent comments here. Some minor spoilers in this review (as most reviews have). Steve Carell is awesome in this movie.
Tags: anchorman, b+ films
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Yet again, FlakMag has an amazing review of Anchorman (and a lot of praise for Ferrell). Read it here.
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Title: Three Kings
Grade: A
Times Viewed: 4
Date Reviewed: 07/10/04
Read Flakmag’s excellent comments on this amazing movie here.
Tags: a+ films, three kings
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I was just watching Three Kings on tv today and I realized what an amazing movie it is. I must say that this is, without a doubt, the most relevant war movie of our time. But I found an article that explains it much better than I could ever hope to do:
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By the way, that […]