Here’s the idea behind “A Canadian, an American, and an Elitist”: Rhett’s favorite movie is Meatballs 4, Shawn has an unhealthy fixation on Resident Evil, and Adam is a prick who hates everything. We all watch far too many movies, and spend our time analyzing them. So we each watch the same movie, write our […]
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Cultural critic James Wolcott, on the new film critic:
"Film critics today have become these rabid completists... They feel like that with festivals, they have to see everything, no matter how minor. Part of it is bragging rights. The other part is that the only thing that feeds into their movie writing is other movies."
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One-Eyed Jacks
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Tags: A Fistful of Dollars, A Streetcar Named Desire, Adam Lippe, Al Pacino, Anthony Lapaglia, Assault on Precinct 13, bank robbery, Ben Johnson, Brainstorm, Cherry 2000, Cheryl Lee, Chevy, Christine, Circle of Friends, Cliché, cowboys, Criterion, Daniel Baldwin, Elvis, Escape From L.A., Escape from New York, Ethan Hawke, fat, film, For a Few Dollars More, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Oz, George Lucas, Ghosts of Mars, Heat, horse, Howard Hawks, Ice Cube, James Caan, Jason Statham, Jeames Dean, Jim Henson, John Carpenter, John Ford, Karl Malden, Kurt Russell, Madacy, Marlon Brando, Maximum Overdrive, Mexicans, Mexico, Michael Mann, movie, movie review, muppets, Mutiny on the Bounty, naive, Natalie Wood, Natlaie Portman, Neil LaBute, Paramount, Paul Rudd, pretentious, public domain, puppets, RegrettableSincerity.com, Remake, Resident Evil, review, Rio, Rio Bravo, sailors, Sergio Leone, sherrif, Slim Pickens, Splendor in the Grass, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, Stephen King, studio interference, sunset, The Godfather, The Hidden Foretress, The Muppets, The Shape of Things, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, turkey, Turkish rip-off, vampires, video, Western
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One-Eyed Jacks
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Tags: A Fistful of Dollars, A Streetcar Named Desire, Adam Lippe, Al Pacino, Anthony Lapaglia, Assault on Precinct 13, bank robbery, Ben Johnson, Brainstorm, Cherry 2000, Cheryl Lee, Chevy, Christine, Circle of Friends, Cliché, cowboys, Criterion, Daniel Baldwin, Elvis, Escape From L.A., Escape from New York, Ethan Hawke, fat, film, For a Few Dollars More, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Oz, George Lucas, Ghosts of Mars, Heat, horse, Howard Hawks, Ice Cube, James Caan, Jason Statham, Jeames Dean, Jim Henson, John Carpenter, John Ford, Karl Malden, Kurt Russell, Madacy, Marlon Brando, Maximum Overdrive, Mexicans, Mexico, Michael Mann, movie, movie review, muppets, Mutiny on the Bounty, naive, Natalie Wood, Natlaie Portman, Neil LaBute, Paramount, Paul Rudd, pretentious, public domain, puppets, RegrettableSincerity.com, Remake, Resident Evil, review, Rio, Rio Bravo, sailors, Sergio Leone, sherrif, Slim Pickens, Splendor in the Grass, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, Stephen King, studio interference, sunset, The Godfather, The Hidden Foretress, The Muppets, The Shape of Things, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, turkey, Turkish rip-off, vampires, video, Western
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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.