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Watching Ebert: All the Real Girls (Green, 2003)

• August 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Watching Ebert
Tags: 500 Days of Summer, All The Real Girls, Benjamin Mouton, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Ebert's four star reviews, Maurice Compte, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Schneider, Roger Ebert, Shea Wigham, Watching Ebert, Zooey Deschanel

Inglourious Basterds: A Mixed Bloody Bag of Violence and Dialogue

• August 21, 2009 • 5 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Aldo Raine, B.J. Novak, Basterds, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, David Bowie, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Fredrick Zoller, Hans Landa, Inglorious Bastards, Inglorious Basterds, Inglourious Basterds, Julie Dreyfus, Kill Bill, Melanie Laurent, Mike Myers, Nazis, Oscar buzz, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Richardson, Samm Levine, The Bear Jew, World War Two film

Shorts: Unfortunately, Not Short Enough

• August 21, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: booger, James Spader, Jimmy Bennett, Jon Cryer, Kat Dennings, Leslie Mann, loogie, Robert Rodriguez, Shorts, Trevor Gagnon, William H. Macy

Ponyo: Pure Hand-Drawn Magic

• August 21, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Betty White, Cate Blanchett, Cloris Leachman, Frankie Jonas, Fujimoto, Hayao Miyazaki, Japanimation, John Lasseter, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Matt Damon, Noah Cyrus, Ponyo, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Sosuke, Studio Ghibli, The Brilliance of Pixar, The Little Mermaid, Tina Fey

The Girlfriend Experience: Another Amateurish Soderbergh Experiment

• August 19, 2009 • 7 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Bubble, Chris Santos, digital film, escort service, experiment, experimental film, Full Frontal, Glenn Kenny, nude, Sasha Grey, Sasha Grey nude, Steven Soderbergh, The Girlfriend Experience

District 9: Close Encounters of the Prawn Kind

• August 16, 2009 • 6 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: 30 million, aliens, apartheid, Christopher Johnson, District 9, District Nine, finger, Johannesburg, MNU, Multi National United, Neill Blomkamp, Nigerians, Peter Jackson, prawn, prawns, racial, racial allegory, Racism, sci-fi, Sharlto Copley, spaceship, The Fly, Wikus van der Merwe

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard: Laugh Hard! The Goods Delivers

• August 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Adam McKay, Adam Stock, Alan Thicke, Anchorman, Big Ups, Charles Napier, Craig Robinson, David Koechner, Don Ready, Ed Helms, James Brolin, Jeremy Piven, Jonathan Sadowski, Jordana Spiro, Judd Apatow, Kathryn Hahn, Ken Jeong, Neal Brennan, Rick Stempson, Rob Riggle, The Goods, The Goods: Live Hard, The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard, The Goods: The Don Ready Story, The Hangover, Tony Hale, Ving Rhames, Will Ferrell