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Hall Pass (2011) My obsessive need to see movies that come out in the calender year led me to this, the latest and most mediocre of the Farrelly brother films. Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis play...
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Priest (2011) – Just awful. Drive Angry (2011) – A completely successful neo-B movie, with memorable and only sometime predictable violence. Hobo With a Shotgun (2011) – Canadian Tarantino wannabees...
View ArticleFor the want of a nail and/or power strip
Because my computer can’t use an aircard, I have a MiFi disk. Because the MiFi disk always accidentally turns on and powers down, it was off when I got into a cab yesterday. Because I’m neurotic about...
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The Fall (2006) – Occasionally beautiful but pointless twaddle from a music video director. Never Let Me Go (2010) – Passable sci-fi/coming of age stuff, like Merchant Ivory does “Logan’s Run.” Win Win...
View Article“Chronicle” and “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie”
Chronicle (2012) “I remember you,” says Steve (Michael B. Jordan) to Andrew (Dante DeHaan), as the two of them walk to check out a hole in the ground. “You wore that hoody every day to homeroom.”...
View Article“The Hunger Games” and “21 Jump Street”
The Hunger Games (2012) Suzanne Collins’s dystopian trilogy is written in the first person, from the perspective of a resourceful, sarcastic, unforgettable girl. For unfair reasons — similar pop...
View Article“The Cabin in the Woods” (2012)
HARK: SPOILERS “The Evil Dead” is a fine horror movie. “Evil Dead II” is a bona fide classic. Here’s the joke: They’re basically the same movie. The first one was directed by a 22-year-old Sam Raimi...
View ArticleA series of controversial but harmless opinions about current happenings
- I actually like the new characters on Glee. To a man, they’re improvements on the non-actors foisted upon us by “The Glee Project.” The actress who plays Marley is cute, and I can say that, because...
View ArticleAlternative Oscars
When you see as many movies as I do, you reserve the right to get catty about Oscar nominations. This post will collect the various actors and movies and scores and whatnot that, to me, got ignored....
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The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, 2013) - Your standard “it was the 60s, and racism was bad” story, with two twists. One: The put-upon black people are aborigines. Two: They’re in a girl group put together...
View ArticleThoughts that Make You Think: Cruise Edition
The reasons arrayed against me ever going on a cruise were legion. I don’t like being trapped in one setting; I add to my girth by trying new restaurants, not squatting at buffets; I read that one...
View ArticleRe-Elect Gov. Brownstein
According to the Oregon Constitution, if Kitzhaber resigns, Carrie Brownstein is sworn in as governor. — daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 13, 2015 Sorry Sleater Kinney fans, tour cancelled. I’m...
View ArticleInk-Stained Wretches
Truth (James Vanderbilt, 2015) and Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015) As I finish my book about the progressive rock movement — or, more to the point, as I procrastinate by spending 20 minutes writing...
View ArticleI have opinions about the new ‘Star Wars’
tl;dr It was okay and most people will like it, but it offered virtually none of the fresh ideas and visuals that make sci-fi interesting. So: “The Force Awakens!” I plunked down my $17 to see this in...
View ArticleStop shaming me for shaming airlines on Twitter
People like to complain about things on the Internet. People also like to complain about the vast amount of Internet devoted to complaining. I rise today to defend an unjustly maligned form of gripe:...
View ArticleMovies of 2015
1. Mad Max: Fury Road The praise for this movie has reached the rare incandescence granted to the sort of religious texts that start cults, or to the first season of the Sopranos. Goddamn if it ain’t...
View ArticleOn “Welcome to Earth”
Apparently, for years, people have misremembered Will Smith’s alien-punching “Independence Day” quip as “Welcome ta Urf” and not the clearly enunciated “Welcome to Earth” that one of our most beloved...
View ArticleBoth sides do it!
I’ve been traveling for work, so — maybe blessedly — I didn’t initially see this AP story by two reporters I like very much personally. It’s no patch on them when I say that “Welcome to the...
View ArticleMovies of 2016
I do a version of this every year. The campaign and my book deadline made this year’s explorations a little more limited — which is fine. I have maybe 10 more to see in order to not be befuddled by...
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