Category: Movies
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It Makes Me Wonder
Rediscovering Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s amazing WWII romantic propaganda fantasy A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven in the U.S.)
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Arrougant Basterds
Inglourious Basterds really is a revenge movie: not for Jews, but for the long-oppressed defenders of Quentin Tarantino. Minor spoilers for the movie.
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The Shrimpire Strikes Back
Trying to decide if District 9 is a message movie with explosions, or an explosion movie with a message. Either way, we all win.
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Very Red Necks
The only good thing I have to say about Near Dark is that at least the vampires don’t sparkle. Bonus: a rant about Transformers 2.
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Oh, dag-dag, Mark!
So after hearing and reading about it from all over, and then in preparation for the RiffTrax release, I finally bought and watched The Room. (In case you haven’t heard of the movie, it’s a comically inept melodrama-turned-comedy that developed a cult following after being relentlessly promoted in the LA area. Imagine this scene repeated…
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Searching for Long-Range Comms
Moon is a 1970s psychological sci-fi movie artfully translated into 2009.
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Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley’s movie “Sita Sings the Blues” is available now, and it’s fantastic.
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Who Tackles the Untackleable?
The opening credits of the “Watchmen” movie were shown at WonderCon, and they’re amazing. If the rest of the movie can live up to the first 10 minutes, I’m sold.
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Good times never seemed so good
For some reason (probably because I was conflating it with Stardust), I didn’t expect Coraline to make a big dent in the box office. I thought it was going to be one of those relatively low-key indie movies where fans go on for years about how ingenious it was and complain that “most Americans” just…