I caught a minor cold this weekend and its clearly the end of the world happening. Between that and things finally getting back to normal, I’ve been less attentive to the film news this week, but traditionally very little happens in this part of the year except top 10 lists. I’ve gotten all of...
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Film. Digital. Once, locked in a bitter war and advertised as “film versus digital”, the scrap is barely a fight anymore. Though film keeps hanging on, keeps holding onto devotes, like For Ellen (VOD on 9/19) director of photography Reed Morano, the digital revolution seems cemented in victory at the moment. This “film”, in fact,...
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It was a hell of a rough seven days, days that saw the end of Tony Scott, Phyllis Diller, Jerry Nelson and Neil Armstrong. For our purposes here, Tony Scott was the biggest loss, but personally, while I liked the other three, I admired the hell out of Neil Armstrong as much for his...
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With Steven Soderbergh’s imminent retirement (to be a painter) apparently back on, I thought it was time to go back and take a look at the only film of his I genuinely loved, the George Clooney-starring remake, Solaris. Yeah, yeah. A remake. Sacrilege, I know. But spare me, Salman Rushdie. Solaris is not the...
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We’re going to have a really light Roundup this week. I just flew back from Denver and between flying, unpacking, cleaning, getting Netflix to work on my PS3 again while simultaneously being outraged over the $19.58 they charged me (wasn’t that supposed to be in September?), I haven’t gotten my real life back in...
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For most news outlets, the big news stories of the week were Harry Potter shattering basically every screen record ever (while also being pretty damn good), who got snubbed and who was undeserving in the Emmy noms, and the News of the World hacking scandal. Boooooring. The Netflix price hike was the thing that got under...
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Hope everyone is having a good fourth of July weekend and that you haven’t blown off any of your appendages while celebrating. Transformers 3 is making a shitload of money despite seemingly no one thinking it was good, but that’s just how Michael Bay movies work. I’m gonna go with a short preamble today...
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