Movies
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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…
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How movies are assigned their ratings has become something of a hot topic in the past few years. Although I have never seen much written about the subject, listening to the commentaries on several DVD’s (Kevin Smith’s in particular) have offered some insight into how the MPAA rates films. There is of course the documentary…
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Whether you are a casual moviegoer or a film buff chances are unless you are also a cinematographer you don’t pay too much attention to this particular profession. Certainly we all notice the way films look and when it is either exceptionally beautiful or painfully drab the credit nearly always falls on the person making…
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While visiting the trailers page on Apple’s website today I saw the poster of the film The Father of My Children. On it is a quote from Gavin Smith, editor of Film Comment magazine which reads — “Deeply Moving. Incredibly tender and heartbreaking without ever getting sentimental.” I am, admittedly, a bit picky about some…
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