Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Snap Judgments - a Quick Review of 5 Movies

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Persepolis Internationally celebrated, this cartoon tells the life-story of a girl growing up in 1970s Tehran, living as a teen in Vienna in...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

My Blueberry Nights - B

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Elizabeth (Norah Jones) is a lovesick New Yorker recently dumped by her boyfriend. She meets Jeremy (Jude Law), a café owner, and together t...
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DVD and CD Releases - July 8th

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New CD Releases: Age of Rockets - Hannah Beck - Modern Guilt Danger Radio - Used And Abused Albert Hammond(The Strokes) - Como Te Llama? H...
Monday, July 7, 2008

Hancock - B+

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In theaters. Rated PG-13, 85 minutes. Trailer . As a Will Smith playa-hata, it took a great trailer, Jason Bateman and director Peter Berg ...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Fleet Foxes A

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Fleet Foxes self-titled debut LP (they’ve released two EP’s, one in ’06 and one this past February) is the flavor-of-the-month among indie r...
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The Last Lecture

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For Father's Day, my mom got me the recent bestseller The Last Lecture, by Dr. Randy Pausch. It is your typical self-help/feel good boo...
Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy July 4th Again

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Happy Fourth of July

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

New Dark Knight Poster

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While film posters aren't the usual topic of this blog, this new Dark Knight poster is too good not to put up. Click on the thumbnail a...
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Stone Temple Pilots Concert - June 29, 2008,

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At Nokia Grand Prairie (which counts as a Dallas show). Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland has to be worn out. He's been to ...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Notable Videos

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Larry David fake PSA from Funnyordie. Three funny videos featuring James Franco 'teaching' his brother to act. Dry and funny - g...
Monday, June 30, 2008

The Cruciform Pose in the Movies - Part 2

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Part 1 here . The cruciform pose (Jesus on the cross) isn’t going away anytime soon. In Iron Man , Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark is a self-...
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DVD and CD Releases - July 1st

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Recent DVD Releases: City of Men Drillbit Taylor My Blueberry Nights Sex and Death 101 Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (can somebody pleas...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Cruciform Pose in the Movies – Part 1

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Film characters assume the same position of Jesus on the cross for different reasons. Sometimes it’s by necessity, sometimes it’s a flat-out...
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Wanted - C

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In theaters. Rated R, 108 minutes. Trailer . A fraternity of weavers turned assassins kill people with their extra-special sensory gifts a...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Best of 2008...So Far

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Given that 2007 was one of the strongest years for film in recent memory, it would be hard for 2008 to measure up. Even so, this first half...
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Wall E - B+

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In theaters. Rated G, 102 minutes. Trailer . Animated movies about robots are about as far as I can go from my movie comfort zone. The onl...
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Friday, June 27, 2008

Notable News

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1. New song from The Verve "Love is Noise". Listen here . Exclusive free download of another new song "Mover" availab...