Dasepo Naughty Girls
“It’s all right! I have 178 girlfriends, and 8,900 text messages.I can’t believe Double Eyes is a man.” They say that variety is the spice of life. In a continuing attempt to embrace that variety here...
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“I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how could that be.” Sunday Single Sentence review: A sometimes dark, sometimes funny, but consistently meaningful...
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“If I’m going to make a fake movie, it’s going to be a fake hit.” When the Academy Award nominees were announced last month, I made it a goal to try to see and review all nine films nominated for Best...
View ArticleLincoln
“I never seen the like of it before, what I seen today.” Today’s movie is Lincoln, Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed film about the sixteenth US President. The film was clearly conceived as and remains, in...
View ArticleLoving Sophia
“I love my broken vase.” Sunday Single Sentence review: An often disturbing, sometimes hard to watch, documentary about a young woman who’s teenage angst devolved into drug addiction and prostitution,...
View ArticleMiracle Fish
“You can’t turn sixty-five cents into a dollar. Sunday Single Sentence review: Well-staged, and somewhat disturbing, but not particularly profound, Miracle Fish, an Oscar-nominated Australian short...
View ArticleQuiz Show
“It’s not like we’re hardened criminals here. We’re in show business.” Today’s movie is Quiz Show, the 1994 dramatization of the quiz show scandals of the 1950′s, directed by Robert Redford. I vaguely...
View ArticleThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
“Nothing happens unless first we dream.” Today’s movie is one that’s intrigued me since I first saw the trailer quite some time ago. It’s the type of movie that I immediately suspected that I would...
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“Do you think you are broken?” They say that variety is the spice of life…. Oh, you know the drill…. I now present this, brief, thirtieth edition of Wednesday Weirdness. Aggressively boring,...
View ArticleSurveillant
“So… that’s it.” Sunday Single Sentence review: Today’s movie, Surveillant, a 2012 French-Canadian short, is neatly directed and features some very clever cinematic techniques, but the narrative,...
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