While millions of people saw Bond this weekend, I had an odd little experience of being in an almost empty theater on a Saturday while finally seeing Cloud Atlas. I usually like to see movies during the day to avoid big crowds, but I had figured, being a Saturday, it would be packed and...
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Between a lack of interesting non-Cloud Atlas yellow face stories and the giant megastorm lumbering its way slowly over the entire Eastern United states, the roundup is somewhat slight this week. Because of that, I’ll take this time to really encourage you guys to watch the three short films I’ve posted below. If you...
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Chasing Mavericks – Directors Michael Apted and Curtis Hanson team up to tell the true-life story of surfer Jay Moriarity (Jonny Weston), who developed a close bond with older legend Frosty Hesson (Gerard Butler) while training to ride one of the world’s biggest waves. Moriarity ultimately drowned while still in his early 20s —...
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It was a pretty busy week, both in the world of film and the actual world. We finally saw a great speech from John Kerry, and a very great one from Bubba. “Mark Owens’” No Easy Day was released. The claim that the book isn’t political is kind of bullshit. The tail end of the...
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I absolutely loved Danny Boyle’s sweeping epic of an Opening Ceremony, despite the fact NBC decided to delay it and chop it up for prime time, cutting out a few sections (including, apparently, a Death Eater attack). Of course people complained. This is boring. This is lame. This is too multicultural. This is an...
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I went on a little nostalgia trip this week, as IFC was playing House Party, the Kid N’ Play epic about… well, you know… a house party. Aside from the side characters (especially the neighbor yelling out the window played by John Witherspoon), the funniest thing about the movie is how hilariously bad the...
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