Category: Arts & Entertainment
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How I Met Your Mithrandir
The Hobbit is really just an excuse for Peter Jackson and his pals to spend a few more years hanging out in Middle Earth. I don’t see how anybody could have a problem with that.
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Richard Parker, Burning Bright
More thoughts on Life of Pi, the movie I earlier said had left me with nothing to think about.
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We Sold a Zoo
Life of Pi is spectacular even for people jaded by spectacle, and it might even be meaningful to people jaded by pop spirituality.
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Everything Crashed Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
American Horror Story: Asylum is either awful with a few moments of brilliance, or brilliant in its awfulness. Or both. Or neither.
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Concern Tron
Wreck It Ralph is by every measure a movie that only Disney could’ve made, and it’s the best movie to come out of Disney Animation Studios in years.
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The City That Never Blinks
Being a nerd, I have opinions about the Doctor Who mid-season finale, “The Angels Take Manhattan.”
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Just when I thought I was out…
Looper isn’t the time-traveling mob movie we expect, but it may just be the time-traveling mob movie we need.
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Failure to Comply
I can’t tell if Dredd is a satire on hyper-violent action movies, or just an unusually smart and well-made hyper-violent action movie. And I’m not entirely sure that the distinction even matters.
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Variations on a Queen
Or, “Maybe I’m Just Like My Mother.” Brave is a Pixar movie that doesn’t behave like people want or expect it to. Unmarked spoilers.
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Occupy Crime Alley
The Dark Knight Rises explores the issue of wealth disparity by showing us that both rich and poor are united by a common lack of diction. Spoilers abound.
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We Can Remake It For You Half-Assed
There’s really nothing wrong with the Total Recall remake except for the disappointing Kuatolessness of it all.