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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

(500) Days of Summer- An Anti-Romcom That Warms and Breaks The Heart

• August 10, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: 500 Days of Summer, Clark Gregg, Hall and Oates, indie comedy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marc Webb, Michael Weber, Minka Kelly, Narrator, Romantic comedy, romcom, Scott Neustadter, Zooey Deschanel

How Joe Morgenstern’s Non-Review of GI Joe Hastens the Death of Film Criticism

• August 9, 2009 • 14 Comments

Posted in The Thoughts of Russell Hainline
Tags: death of film criticism, film criticism, film critics, film review, Film Reviews, GI Joe, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Hasbro, Joe Morgenstern, metacritic, movie criticism, movie review, movie reviews, Paramount Pictures, Rob Moore, rottentomatoes, Stephen Sommers, The Wall Street Journal, Transformers 2, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Fun is More Than Half The Battle

• August 8, 2009 • 6 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Arnold Vosloo, Breaker, Brendan Fraser, Byung-hun Lee, Channing Tatum, Christopher Eccleston, Cobra Commander, Dennis Quaid, Destro, Dr. Who, Duke, General Hawk, GI Joe, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Heavy Duty, Jonathan Pryce, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Karolina Kurkova, Kevin J. O'Connor, Marlon Wayans, nude, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Ripcord, Saïd Taghmaoui, Scarlett, Sienna Miller, Snake Eyes, Stephen Sommers, Storm Shadow, summer movie, The Baroness

The Password is Swordfish

Archive for August, 2009

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

Inglourious Basterds: A Mixed Bloody Bag of Violence and Dialogue

Shorts: Unfortunately, Not Short Enough

Ponyo: Pure Hand-Drawn Magic

The Girlfriend Experience: Another Amateurish Soderbergh Experiment

District 9: Close Encounters of the Prawn Kind

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

(500) Days of Summer- An Anti-Romcom That Warms and Breaks The Heart

How Joe Morgenstern’s Non-Review of GI Joe Hastens the Death of Film Criticism

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Fun is More Than Half The Battle

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