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.
Trailer Roundup (vol. 3): Wreath Movies
Time for this week’s Trailer Friday roundup!
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Breckenridge Film Festival, 2005
A few weekends ago, I drove up into the mountains of Colorado. Was I going camping, you ask?
Layer Cake
Part of the 2005 USA Film Festival
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10 things that make me a geek
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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USA Film Festival, 2000
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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Rushmore vs. Election
When they call Election “wicked satire,” they mean it. Rushmore wasn’t half as crass yet twice as funny.
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The Blair Witch Project vs. Pi
That both of these successful films are independent gives one a giddy sense of grass roots pride.
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The Haunting vs. The Blair Witch Project
Ushering in the new millennium of horror movies, one of these films is mighty, the other mediocre.
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