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Hi Sars,
My husband and I have a close-knit group of friends, all couples, mostly, and they all are starting to have kids.It is not an exaggeration when I say all of them: it is quite …
A more entertaining slate overall than the live-action shorts, by far.
Again, I’ll cover them in the order screened, along with the “highly commended” shorts that showed.
French Roast. A single joke, not terribly funny to begin …
It’s…fine. It has a few charming bits; the return of Jojo is predictable, but done well, and a funeral at the end has a sweet callback to a running sight gag. But the coda is …
It’s nice to see a heroine of color in a Disney movie, but I don’t know if Tiana spending the bulk of the story as a frog necessarily strikes a great blow for multiculturalism, not …
The Messenger is nominated for Best Original Screenplay; if it wins, Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon should waste no time chopping the statue in half and handing it to Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson. The …
Roger Ebert, though he feels more generously towards it than I, sums up my reaction to the movie in his January 6 review:
My problem with Gilliam’s films is that they lack a discernible storyline. I …
Thanks to the IFC Film Center, I managed to knock off five movies in two hours last night — and pull ahead in the Death Race.
The live-action shorts, in screened order…
Kavi. The credits note that …
Absolutely hilarious.The dialogue tends to put British phrasings in the mouths of American characters, but this is more than made up for by all the clever bits: the unbe-liev-ably foul-mouthed rants coming from Malcolm; General …
Sars —
I need a bed. I thought you and your readers might have some good suggestions for me.I have never purchased one before and after several frustrating hours of scouring sites for good deals, I …
Although the novel also drowned in a vat of syrup, Sebold got by for nearly 100 pages on the unsentimental clarity of her style and sustained verisimilitude of the narrator’s adolescent voice. Jackson demonstrates no …