Feb 12
The beauty of Once is not necessarily in the music. The music is there. It is beautiful. What became The Swell Season perform song after song (sometimes Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard together, sometimes just Hansard) of heartbreaking and bittersweet sadness and love, but that’s not all the film has in its corner. It also …
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Feb 05
The silence surrounds you, the stillness unnerving. It’s only when music rarely comes in that you notice how often it’s not there. Everything is on edge for the duration, moments of violence punctuating the prolonged quiet, the flow broken by jagged edges of visceral experience. The Coen Brothers’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For …
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Jan 29
“We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are.” You’ve heard of this movie. Haven’t you? It’s the one that goes backwards, made by the guy who did The Dark Knight. Except that’s not strictly true. Yes, it begins at the end of the story, and ends at the beginning, but interspersed throughout it are …
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Jan 15
Tom Hooper is an Academy Award-winning director (for The King’s Speech in 2010). He’s directed television for HBO and the BBC, as well as numerous television commercials and some theatrical productions. So why does he shoot his newest film, the adaptation of the enormously successful musical Les Miserables, like a novice who’s been given his …
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Jan 03
So, everybody and their mother is falling over themselves to do a Top Whatever list of Movies for 2012. The problem is, a lot of really good ones came out in a short period of time at the end of it, many of them only in limited release. I mean, seriously, I’m a gigantic Tarantino …
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Dec 18
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting morbidly obese, etc etc. So, for this week’s entry, I decided to do something a little different. Instead of just me blathering on about one movie decided upon in a completely arbitrary fashion, I’ve gotten some of my friends and colleagues to write about their favorite Christmas/holiday movies! …
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Dec 13
Pop-punk is a weird line to toe. On one hand, you have the whole “punk” aesthetic, which basically eschews any sort of sentiment or authority and goes for pure energy and noise, while on the other you have “pop”, which means crowd-pleasing and fun for all. Those two forces push and pull at the artists …
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Dec 04
So I’m honestly not sure I can write anything about this film. It was over-the-top, violent, and seriously INSANE. I’ve read the book, and I quite honestly hated it. There was a vile racist undercurrent to the whole thing, and it seemed like Mark Millar laughing at his audience rather than with them; he seemed …
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Nov 29
I’m taking a week away from the A-Z of Geek Cinema column to talk about the latest release from the WWE, its paean to the height of its past glory, The Attitude Era. Just put out last week on DVD and BluRay, the multi-disc set contains a documentary covering the circumstances and players behind what …
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Nov 20
Very clever commentary on product placement indoctrinating the young, or blatant use of product placement to indoctrinate the young? It’s hard to tell with this film. Josie And The Pussycats was a film I enjoyed immensely when I first saw it in theatres, comparing it to a live-action Simpsons episode. Its gags hit fast and in high …
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