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The Crushed Film Festival presents: Rounders
July 14, 2011 – 4:37 PM | 15 Comments
The Crushed Film Festival presents: <I>Rounders</I>

The Movie: Rounders
The Crush Object: Goran Visnjic
The Story: Law student Mike (Matt Damon) is also a savant poker player torn between his natural ability at — and affinity for — the card-playing life and a …

Hereafter
February 21, 2011 – 12:55 PM | 6 Comments
<I>Hereafter</I>

Sarah 37, Death Race 19; 17 of 24 categories completed
I liked it more than I’d expected to, but the guiding structural principle — the three plot strands that converge at the end — felt like …

Inside Job
February 18, 2011 – 5:39 PM | 5 Comments
<I>Inside Job</I>

Sarah 33, Death Race 23; 15 of 24 categories completed
I got impatient with it at first. It misspells two key names in chyrons right off the bat — former Fed chairman Paul “Vocker” and IMF …

Oscars 2011 Death Race Preview: The Social Network
January 11, 2011 – 2:48 PM | 12 Comments
Oscars 2011 Death Race Preview: <I>The Social Network</I>

You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just trying so HARD to be.
That presumed attempt to make Mark Zuckerberg marginally more likable to the audience is one of the few feet Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network …

Invictus
February 17, 2010 – 8:09 AM | 22 Comments
<I>Invictus</I>

And thus endeth the Racism Is Bad, Mmmkay Oscar trifecta.
…I shouldn’t be flip. It’s an important story. Alas, it’s filmed as just that, An Important Story, and the weight of that responsibility presses all the …

The Departed
August 23, 2008 – 11:22 AM | 39 Comments
<I>The Departed</I>

It’s a very good movie; it’s not a great movie. Conventional wisdom is that Scorsese got the Oscar for The Departed that he’d actually earned for GoodFellas (or Raging Bull); I can accept that, and …