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Colors
November 29, 2009 – 12:24 PM | 29 Comments
<I>Colors</I>

Another one for the "I added it to my Netflix queue years ago and have no memory of why" file, I sat down to Colors expecting to have to endure it.For one thing, Sean Penn …

Blue Velvet
July 6, 2009 – 9:15 PM | 30 Comments
<I>Blue Velvet</I>

David Lynch is, for me, an odd case.Everything he's doing in a given film, the nods to and lifts from noir, the dreamy callbacks, the pointed ugliness in the candy coating, I can get behind …