Movies
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What You Should Know This is a Kevin Costner sports movie. It is a a rather straight-forward, enjoyable film about golf, taking chances and spending time with your buddies. Why You Should Reconsider For some reason, be it The Postman, aspects of his personal life or the way his hair looked on Tuesday, Kevin Costner…
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A post about enjoying the process as well as the result.
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I suppose people of a certain age tend to look fondly on periods of time and that a pattern can be discerned from this. Many filmmakers now in their sixties speak of the 1970’s as being the golden age of filmmaking. The studio system changed, independent film emerged and suddenly a different kind of filmmaking…
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Rotten Tomatoes Freshness Meter Critics – 66% Audience – 49% What You Should Know This is a sports movie. About ping pong. Needless to say it is a comedy. Why You Should Reconsider My guess is you didn’t hear about ping pong playa or that you did but only after seeing the movie/watching the trailer…
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Rotten Tomatoes Freshness Meter Critics – 87% Audience – 87% What You Should Know Saving Face is the best kind of independent film. It’s funny, touching and unexpected. It accomplishes these things without being ugly, off-putting or in-your-face about being a low-budget production (for a wonderful, current example of this I give you – Detachment).…
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A post where I reconsider my idea of George Lucas.
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Rotten Tomatoes Freshness Meter Critics – 22% Audience – 54% What You Should Know This movie is a comedy. Not in the way “Up in The Air” is a comedy where most of the film tries to be serious and realistic and sad. This is a wacky, screwball comedy that pokes fun at caper films…
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I haven’t written much here about Mr. Soderbergh which is somewhat surprising. I tend to talk about him quite a bit and think about him even more, so this absence shows me just how wrongheaded I have been about posting here. I will lighten up and start posting more. To sum up my feelings about…
The Writings of John Ryan Sullivan 