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Fitfully Fantastic
A busy week ahead, as awards-season films start screening for press. In the meantime, though, here are links to five reviews, only two of which have something nice to say. Out Now:Fantastic Mr. Fox (Slant magazine)Red Cliff (Slant magazine)Pirate Radio (Slant magazine)Staten Island (Slant magazine)Fix (Slant magazine)
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Another Monday, Another Recap
My latest delayed link collection features three new Time Out New York reviews, a couple of NYFF write-ups for Slant, as well as my thoughts on the weekend's two big releases Zombieland and The Invention of Lying. Out Now:Zombieland (Slant magazine)Toy Story 1 & 2 3D (TONY)The Invention of Lying (Slant magazine)More than a Game…
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Sunday Morning Round-Up
The New York Film Festival is now in full swing, meaning lots of new reviews will be appearing here over the coming three weeks. Before that deluge begins, however, here's my latest collection of stuff, including three new pieces for Time Out New York. Out Now:Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (TONY)I Can Do Bad…
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Recovery
I'm still attempting to recuperate from this weekend's various festivities, so no chit-chat for this belated link dump. Out Now:World's Greatest Dad (Slant magazine)My One and Only (Slant magazine)Post Grad (Slant magazine)X Games 3D: The Movie (Slant magazine)
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Timing Out
This week's round-up features my newest Sandbox column for IFC News, Slant magazine reviews of District 9 and The Time Traveler's Wife, and my debut feature for Time Out New York, a primer on the work of Hayao Miyazaki timed to the release of his latest, Ponyo. The Illustrated Man (Time Out New York)The Sandbox:…
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009): C
Basically Team America: World Police played straight and minus the political edge, Stephen Sommers’ G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has everything an adolescent boy might crave: buff, fearless soldiers, plentiful gunfire and explosions, and opposing objects of horndog desire in the form of buxom redhead do-gooder Scarlett (Rachel Nichols) and svelte brunette vixen Baroness…
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The Cove (2009): B
Funded by the Oceanic Preservation Society (and directed by one of its co-founders, Louie Psihoyos), The Cove boasts a rather upfront propagandist agenda – stopping the slaughter of dolphins, for food, in an infamous cove in Taiji, Japan. Yet as far as one-sided activist works go, Psihoyos’ documentary is a quite stirring call to arms…
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Living Well
This week's new releases include You, the Living, the latest phenomenal work from Roy Andersson (Songs from the Second Floor). Aside from that review, however, this link collection is short on positivity. Coming Soon:You, the Living (Slant magazine)Gotta Dance (Slant magazine) Out Now:Orphan (Slant magazine)G-Force (Slant magazine)
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Who Ya Gonna Call?
My latest Sandbox column examines games that function as movie sequels, timed to this past week's anticipated release of Ghostbusters: The Video Game. The Sandbox: When Games Become Movie Sequels (IFC News) And as for reviews, well, there's not much to praise about these three new releases. In Theaters:Year One (Slant magazine)Whatever Works (Cinematical)The Proposal…
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The Late Show
I planned to get this post up yesterday but, um, yeah, that didn't happen. Nonetheless, here it is now, replete with new reviews (including my rave for Tetro) as well as my IFC interview with Moon director Duncan Jones. Duncan Jones' (Inter)stellar Debut (IFC News) In Theaters:Tetro (Cinematical)The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Slant…
