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BURIED
It takes both a solid actor and a visually savvy director to make a guy in a box interesting for an hour and a half, and both Reynolds, unproven in dramatic roles, and Cortes, with one other feature to his credit (the Spanish film The [...]
I’M STILL HERE
Although the movie is most likely a huge pretense, what if it weren’t? Cameras could probably follow somebody such as Axl Rose and get a real documentary much like this one. In Axl’s case, it would just be sad. Whereas, though it won’t be to everyone’s [...]
It has occurred to me that “Links of the Week” is a terrible title for getting traffic. From now on, actual titles in header.
I have, as some readers may be aware, joined the writing staff of Geekchicdaily.com. I will not be regularly linking to articles there, in part because every piece is a collaboration, but [...]
The crux of the entire thing is that we don’t know what’s going on inside our main character’s head, which makes her impossible to identify with or relate to. This can work if the folks opposing her are compelling and identifiable, but they [...]
Normally, if I ordered something called a nacho burrito and got something this dry and annoying, I’d imagine I just caught an employee on a bad day. But three bad burritos in three days, y’know…there’s probably some kind of appropriate metaphor to be had in a [...]
Okay, now that you’ve had a chance to read through all my LAFF stuff, here are some other recent articles you may have missed:
Geekweek review of THE KILLER INSIDE ME:
Unlike the more justified killer also named Ford that Affleck played previously (in that Jesse James movie I will not retype the entire title of), [...]
Having blogged the LA Film Festival nearly every one of its ten days, I present a hand-dandy links guide below, so you can skip to a particular story based on what movies are discussed therein.
It was a lot of work. Hope you enjoy.
DAY 1 – preview – Camera Camera, Circo, Dog Sweat, Everyday Sunshine: The [...]
Longtime readers know I love to blog the LA Film Fest each year. You can see my first two posts HERE and HERE; stay tuned all week for more, which will show up, among other things, at this here page.
But before you dive into that, let’s get you caught up with my other stuff from [...]
First, the fast food. Let’s talk about Chipotle Boneless Wings:
Boneless wings are bullshit.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest right upfront. Nothing personal to the heirs of the late Dave Thomas, but despite the fact that Budweiser hails the nameless “Mr. Boneless Buffalo Wing Inventor” as one of their Real Men of Genius, [...]