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My latest recap
April 12, 2007 – 8:51 AM | 3 Comments

From Brothers & Sisters 118: Three Parties:
“She’s trying to ask you for a date, dicksmack. A little respect for the moment? Oh, I forgot. Your milkshake brings all the girls to the yard. And I …

Fonts de Leon
April 10, 2007 – 10:10 PM | 19 Comments

You know that scene in Field of Dreams when Busfield looks around and goes, “When did all these baseball players get here?”   That’s kind of how I’m feeling about the font on TN right …

Hockey hair optional
April 9, 2007 – 1:38 PM | 7 Comments

Joe R could use some help here, folks:

Need: a bar that’ll be showing the Islanders-Sabres playoff game next Friday night.
It’s for a Sabres fan (obviously), so on the off chance that some
Buffalo expat has …

Hmm.
April 2, 2007 – 9:06 PM | 15 Comments

Bonsall.
Richardson.

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
March 9, 2007 – 11:31 AM | No Comment

It does have some pacing problems, and a tendency to fall back on trite background imagery during voice-overs, but these are pretty minor complaints overall; the story itself is painstakingly assembled and chilling.   One …

The Women
March 5, 2007 – 6:40 AM | No Comment

Fabulous!Again with the weird hats on Rosalind Russell — was that in her studio contract or something? — but it’s so silly and catty and it zips right along.Thumbs up.(7/3/06)

A Woman Under the Influence
March 5, 2007 – 6:39 AM | No Comment

Worthwhile once you get to the end, but really unfun to watch — which is partly a compliment to Gena Rowlands’s performance (un! comfortable!), partly a comment on Cassavetes movies in general (awk! ward! and! …

Wings of Desire
March 5, 2007 – 6:39 AM | One Comment

What a marvelous movie.Over and over again, I would start to feel a stirring of impatience with the repetition and the collaging, only to get sucked back by an image or a twist.And what splendid …

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
March 5, 2007 – 6:38 AM | No Comment

Trog is laughing right now because I had this out from Netflix for six months, no joke.But I’ve finally watched it, and…wow.You know, I’d never seen a Joan Crawford movie; I’d seen Mommie Dearest about …

Wendigo
March 5, 2007 – 6:38 AM | No Comment

Oh my crap, where to begin with this…”movie.” It has so many serious problems, I can’t even decide which one is primarily at fault, but I think it’s a “flawed in its inception” issue, because …