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Thunder Road
In 1955 the epically great Robert Mitchum made one of the best films in the history of the medium: NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, co-starring Shelley Winters, the pilot from “Airplane!” as a child, an...
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Inception
Okay you guys. Lets do this. First of all, is there anyone out there who actually liked this movie? It was up for a million Oscars, so I guess the answer to that is “Yes.” People also seem to love...
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THE NEW BOURNE MOVIE (I ALREADY FORGOT WHAT IT WAS CALLED, THATS HOW GREAT IT...
I had high hopes for Jeremy Renner. I have loved his frowny pug face in several movies in a row now. I watched the new Mission Impossible on hopes he would be awesome. His abs-lighting nearly upstaged...
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Safety Not Guaranteed
This movie is beautiful. It is nearly flawless. It is pitch-perfect and all the other terms you use to describe good cinema. It’s a romantic comedy sort of but it’s also deeply sad, and it has this...
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Prometheus!
Well, what a shame! What a shame, Ridley Scott. Your triumphant return to the Alien franchise was, shall we say, not as good as the original Alien movie. Shall we say more than that? Shall we say it...
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Quick Trips
I have seen a lot of movies but I keep not wanting to deeply interrogate their subtexts and lambast their scripts in yon blog, for some reason. I think it all began when I saw The Master, which I felt...
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Cool as Ice
Oh no, I forgot COOL AS ICE in my “Quick Trips” entry! Ultimate Quick Trip….down memory lane! Once again at Steve’s house, where so many of the good things in my life take place, I was treated to a...
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Skyfall
“What did you think of it?” “Well it started out pretty shitty…and then it got mostly shitty.” This is a James Bond movie about how aging white men no longer feel powerful and important. You see,...
View ArticleROCK OF AGES
On the plane to Portland last week with my 9 month old son passed out on me I took full advantage of the six dollar screen rental and was like “I GET TO WATCH A MOVIE! WEE! WHAT SHALL I WATCH?!” And...
View ArticleUrban Honking Presents The Official I SAW THAT Oscars™ Live Blog
Today the highly educated, well informed, and dazzlingly beautiful authors of I SAW THAT will act as your guides through the gowns, glamour, and gold of the greatest award in the history of our...
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An Essay On Zombies, and Then at the End There’s Some Rude Jokes About World...
Hi everyone. Well, the day finally arrived. The day I had been awaiting with bated breath. The day marked in my iCal as “WWZ!!!!!” I asked my old man “do you know what tomorrow is” and he said...
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Gravity
Well. This movie has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I have yet to read a bad review of it, aside from my friend Claire’s excellent one. Everyone, from what I’ve read, seems to say something along...
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Jack Reacher: Apotheosis Of the Dude-Dad Movie
Okay okay. I know this is a movie that came out a long time ago, but I feel like complaining about the patriarchy. Plus, like Anthony Lane, I am not above shooting fish in a barrel just for the cruel...
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Quick Bits On Movies I Haven’t Seen Yet Or Saw And Have No Further Thoughts On
HER Even though I am tired of the sad sack dude movie, I admit that I love no one’s face more than Joaquin Phoenix’s and I am happy to pay money to stare at it for 2 hours. My friend group is...
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MITT
When Josh called to tell me he wanted me to come over and watch this with him, my first thought was “no thank you.” My second thought was “wait, what?” and my third thought was “ok.” Full disclosure...
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The Journey of Natty Gann
It’s easy to understand why The Journey of Natty Gann is not up there in the Disney girl-movies canon; a tough tween tomboy who smokes and fights and mudders “shit” makes her way across Depression-era...
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