There’s an undiagnosed illness that most people don’t know about. But it can affect their personalities completely. Away We Go, Sam Mendes’ (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) new comedy-drama about a couple (John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph) going through their first pregnancy and how they travel all across the country to try to find the best place […]
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Away We Go
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Tags: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Adam Lippe, Allison Janney, American Beauty, beard, breasts, Canada, Catherine O'Hara, children, Chris Messina, CNN, cool, cunnilingus, Dave Eggers, David Fincher, Eric Roth, film, film review, Forrest Gump, Garden State, Hippie, homeless, inertia, Jeff Daniels, Jim Gaffigan, John Krasinski, Josh Hamilton, loud, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maya Rudolph, McSweeney's, Melanie Lynskey, Montreal, movie, movie review, No Jacket Required, Owen Wilson, Patton Oswalt, Phil Collins, Phoenix, pregnant, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, Revolutionary Road, road movie, Road to Perdition, Sam Mendes, San Francisco, sitcom, stroller, styrofoam, Sudan, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Office, Tom Hanks, TV, video film, wacky, What is the What, Zach Braff
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The Merry Gentleman
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
In the pantheon of films about depressed hitmen either on their last job or on the verge of suicide, The Merry Gentleman stands tall, in the middle of the pack. Not as insightful, moving, nor funny as the William H. Macy starring Panic* or as wonderfully awful as Nicholas Cage’s foray in the remake of […]
Tags: Adam Lippe, American Beauty, appendicitis, appendix, assasin, Batman, Beetle Juice, blueprint, Bobby Cannavale, born again Christian, Chris Penn, Christmas, christmas tree, Coldblooded, cop, depression, film, film review, hitman, Jason Priestley, Joe Mantegna, John Ritter, Kelly Macdonald, Little Red Riding Hood, Michael Keaton, movie, movie film, movie review, naive, Neve Campbell, Nicolas Cage, Night Shift, No Country For Old Men, Panic, platonic, police procedural, R ra, R rated, red coat, RegrettableSincerity.com, Ron Lazzeretti, Scotland, snow, spousal abuse, The Opera Lover, The Pang Brothers, The Shawshank Reemption, therapy, Thomas Newman, Tom Bastounes, Trainspotting, video film, Wally Wolodarsky, William H. Macy
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Away We Go
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Tags: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Adam Lippe, Allison Janney, American Beauty, beard, breasts, Canada, Catherine O'Hara, children, Chris Messina, CNN, cool, cunnilingus, Dave Eggers, David Fincher, Eric Roth, film, film review, Forrest Gump, Garden State, Hippie, homeless, inertia, Jeff Daniels, Jim Gaffigan, John Krasinski, Josh Hamilton, loud, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maya Rudolph, McSweeney's, Melanie Lynskey, Montreal, movie, movie review, No Jacket Required, Owen Wilson, Patton Oswalt, Phil Collins, Phoenix, pregnant, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, Revolutionary Road, road movie, Road to Perdition, Sam Mendes, San Francisco, sitcom, stroller, styrofoam, Sudan, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Office, Tom Hanks, TV, video film, wacky, What is the What, Zach Braff
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The Merry Gentleman
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
In the pantheon of films about depressed hitmen either on their last job or on the verge of suicide, The Merry Gentleman stands tall, in the middle of the pack. Not as insightful, moving, nor funny as the William H. Macy starring Panic* or as wonderfully awful as Nicholas Cage’s foray in the remake of […]
In the pantheon of films about depressed hitmen either on their last job or on the verge of suicide, The Merry Gentleman stands tall, in the middle of the pack. Not as insightful, moving, nor funny as the William H. Macy starring Panic* or as wonderfully awful as Nicholas Cage’s foray in the remake of […]
Tags: Adam Lippe, American Beauty, appendicitis, appendix, assasin, Batman, Beetle Juice, blueprint, Bobby Cannavale, born again Christian, Chris Penn, Christmas, christmas tree, Coldblooded, cop, depression, film, film review, hitman, Jason Priestley, Joe Mantegna, John Ritter, Kelly Macdonald, Little Red Riding Hood, Michael Keaton, movie, movie film, movie review, naive, Neve Campbell, Nicolas Cage, Night Shift, No Country For Old Men, Panic, platonic, police procedural, R ra, R rated, red coat, RegrettableSincerity.com, Ron Lazzeretti, Scotland, snow, spousal abuse, The Opera Lover, The Pang Brothers, The Shawshank Reemption, therapy, Thomas Newman, Tom Bastounes, Trainspotting, video film, Wally Wolodarsky, William H. Macy
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Whenever there’s a genre parody or ode to a specific era of films, such as Black Dynamite’s mocking of Blaxploitation films or Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, the second half of Grindhouse, the danger is that the film might fall into the trap of either being condescending without any particular insight, or so faithful that it becomes the very flawed thing it is emulating.
Black Dynamite has nothing new to say about Blaxploitation films, it just does a decent job of copying what an inept [...]
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On Cold Fish:
Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”
Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.