The money is no longer in America. It used to be that you weren’t considered a success until you made it in the US, so athletes, actors, and musicians from foreign countries have been trying to make their talents more accessible (read: dumbing down) whether it be by simplifying what made them great in the […]
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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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The Oxford Murders
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Tags: 2007, 800 Bullets, Acción mutante, Adam Lippe, Agatha Christie, alcohol, Alex Cox, Alex De La Iglesia, Amelie, asexual, Book Adaptation, Burn Gorman, camp, Chow Yun-Fat, Dance With the Devil, Delicatessen, distribution problems, Diva, Dominique Pinon, Drag Me to Hell, Dying of Laughter, Elijah Wood, English, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, German, Germany, Guillermo Martinez, Hideki Irabu, Ichiro Suzuki, James Gandolfini, Japan, Javier Bardem, John Hurt, La Communidad, Lenor Watling, Live Flesh, Love and Death on Long Island, Magnolia, Meg Foster, movie review, No Country For Old Men, nudity, Pedro Almodovar, Perdita Durango, Pink Lady, Pink Lady and Jeff, Quentin Tarantino, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, religion, Rosie Perez, Sam Raimi, satire, Scooby Doo, serial killer, Sin City, slapstick, Spain, The Coen Brothers, The Day of the Beast, The Evil Dead, The Others, The Oxford Murders, The Perfect Crime, The Sea Inside, TV, Vicky Christina Barcelona, video-on-demand, Woody Allen
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The Other Guys
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Screaming non-sequiturs at the top of your lungs will only get you so far in life. If you’re Will Ferrell, it can get you a financially successful, but poorly made, one-note comedy like Stepbrothers. The fatal flaw of Step Brothers is that Ferrell and John C. Reilly spent their time bellowing profanity at each other […]
Tags: Adam Lippe, Adam McKay, Anchorman, Bernie Madoff, big budget, bloopers, Blu-Ray, Bobby Cannavale, buddy-cop, camp, Chris Henchy, Cliché, Damon Wayans Jr., Derek Jeter, Eva Mendes, frontloaded, hispanic, improv, John C. Reilly, lions, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Keaton, monopoly, movie review, nerd, non-sequitor, patent, PG-13, pinkeye, profanity, racism, RegrettableSincerity.com, Rob Huebel, Rob Riggle, Samuel L. Jackson, satire, slapstick, Sony, Step Brothers, Steve Coogan, Talladega Nights, The Other Guys, The Rock, unrated DVD, Will Ferrell
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The Oxford Murders
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Tags: 2007, 800 Bullets, Acción mutante, Adam Lippe, Agatha Christie, alcohol, Alex Cox, Alex De La Iglesia, Amelie, asexual, Book Adaptation, Burn Gorman, camp, Chow Yun-Fat, Dance With the Devil, Delicatessen, distribution problems, Diva, Dominique Pinon, Drag Me to Hell, Dying of Laughter, Elijah Wood, English, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, German, Germany, Guillermo Martinez, Hideki Irabu, Ichiro Suzuki, James Gandolfini, Japan, Javier Bardem, John Hurt, La Communidad, Lenor Watling, Live Flesh, Love and Death on Long Island, Magnolia, Meg Foster, movie review, No Country For Old Men, nudity, Pedro Almodovar, Perdita Durango, Pink Lady, Pink Lady and Jeff, Quentin Tarantino, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, religion, Rosie Perez, Sam Raimi, satire, Scooby Doo, serial killer, Sin City, slapstick, Spain, The Coen Brothers, The Day of the Beast, The Evil Dead, The Others, The Oxford Murders, The Perfect Crime, The Sea Inside, TV, Vicky Christina Barcelona, video-on-demand, Woody Allen
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The Other Guys
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Screaming non-sequiturs at the top of your lungs will only get you so far in life. If you’re Will Ferrell, it can get you a financially successful, but poorly made, one-note comedy like Stepbrothers. The fatal flaw of Step Brothers is that Ferrell and John C. Reilly spent their time bellowing profanity at each other […]
Screaming non-sequiturs at the top of your lungs will only get you so far in life. If you’re Will Ferrell, it can get you a financially successful, but poorly made, one-note comedy like Stepbrothers. The fatal flaw of Step Brothers is that Ferrell and John C. Reilly spent their time bellowing profanity at each other […]
Tags: Adam Lippe, Adam McKay, Anchorman, Bernie Madoff, big budget, bloopers, Blu-Ray, Bobby Cannavale, buddy-cop, camp, Chris Henchy, Cliché, Damon Wayans Jr., Derek Jeter, Eva Mendes, frontloaded, hispanic, improv, John C. Reilly, lions, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Keaton, monopoly, movie review, nerd, non-sequitor, patent, PG-13, pinkeye, profanity, racism, RegrettableSincerity.com, Rob Huebel, Rob Riggle, Samuel L. Jackson, satire, slapstick, Sony, Step Brothers, Steve Coogan, Talladega Nights, The Other Guys, The Rock, unrated DVD, Will Ferrell
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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.