ElectroLund

Gran Torino is a fine film, but it’s as deeply flawed as some of its characters.  I can forgive its characters for their foibles, but not its filmmakers.

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Time for this week’s Trailer Friday roundup!
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A few weekends ago, I drove up into the mountains of Colorado. Was I going camping, you ask?

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Part of the 2005 USA Film Festival
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Here’s a fun list of stuff about which I am pretty passionate, about which I know at least slightly more than the average person and about which I am constantly in fear of talking too much.
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Watching this film gave me that childish giddiness I haven’t felt since the original Star Wars.
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Playing Mona Lisa, based on the play “Two Goldsteins on Acid,” is really a film about life’s meandering journey wrapped in a charming comic shell.
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Never having been to a festival before, I only knew as much about indie movies as the local Blockbuster would rent me.
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When they call Election “wicked satire,” they mean it. Rushmore wasn’t half as crass yet twice as funny.
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That both of these successful films are independent gives one a giddy sense of grass roots pride.
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Ushering in the new millennium of horror movies, one of these films is mighty, the other mediocre.
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