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My Must See Movies This Winter:

-The Descendants

-We Need To Talk About Kevin

-Shame

-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy- I’ve been waiting for this one for months. The reviews have been fantastic. A sure Best Picture nominee.

-Carnage

-The Artist

-Hugo

-A Dangerous Method- Gotta get my Cronenberg fix.

Yes, I’m sure I’ll see The Muppets (based on the remarkable response), Mission Impossible, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and probably a few others, but if you’re going to solidify your chances of seeing the most Best Picture nominees, this list is probably a good place to start.

Posted at 12:22pm

Tagged: film, movies, cinema,
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Max Schumacher: You need me. You need me badly. Because I’m your last contact with human reality. I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day.
Diana Christensen: [hesitatingly] Then, don’t leave me.
Max Schumacher: It’s too late, Diana. There’s nothing left in you that I can live with. You’re one of Howard’s humanoids. If I stay with you, I’ll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You’re television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You’re madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure, and pain… and love.
Max Schumacher: And it’s a happy ending: Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week’s show.
Network
Posted at 12:42am
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The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino.
Joe Fox, “You’ve Got Mail”
Posted at 9:07am

Yes.

Posted at 9:06pm
CAN. NOT. WAIT. High-res

CAN. NOT. WAIT.

Posted at 9:25am

Starting Friday…

this will turn into a Captain America propaganda blog.

Posted at 8:02pm
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I can’t say I was really shocked at any point in the movie, but I won’t say it was predictable either. Very charming, a great performance (per usual) from Giamatti, and another winner for Tom McCarthy. High-res

I can’t say I was really shocked at any point in the movie, but I won’t say it was predictable either. Very charming, a great performance (per usual) from Giamatti, and another winner for Tom McCarthy.

Posted at 3:19am
Ehhhhh…. It was certainly a different take on the series. It was entertaining, but I could have done without the first 2/3 of the movie. It was just far too light-hearted. Once they got into the action, I was on the edge of my seat (and it was a vast improvement on prior films) In some ways, I thought the movie was mocking X-Men, and when it came to the military/government aspects, I almost thought it was approached like Dr. Strangelove. It was comical, and normally, laughing is not my natural reaction when someone starts talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was a movie with an exceptional cast, that was in some ways exceptionally miscast. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t get Betty Draper out of their head when January Jones was on the prowl. Kevin Bacon is great at playing a prick, but a super-villain? No. I really enjoyed Michael Fassbender, and I do hope he gets more prominent roles. Also, is there a genre that Rose Byrne can’t do and do well? The franchise obviously needed a fresh start, but if they’re going to go with this cast, it needs to get darker. I guess I’ll just go back to waiting for Captain America.  Oh, and once again…….Jennifer Lawrence……marry me. High-res

Ehhhhh….

It was certainly a different take on the series. It was entertaining, but I could have done without the first 2/3 of the movie. It was just far too light-hearted. Once they got into the action, I was on the edge of my seat (and it was a vast improvement on prior films) In some ways, I thought the movie was mocking X-Men, and when it came to the military/government aspects, I almost thought it was approached like Dr. Strangelove. It was comical, and normally, laughing is not my natural reaction when someone starts talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It was a movie with an exceptional cast, that was in some ways exceptionally miscast. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t get Betty Draper out of their head when January Jones was on the prowl. Kevin Bacon is great at playing a prick, but a super-villain? No. I really enjoyed Michael Fassbender, and I do hope he gets more prominent roles. Also, is there a genre that Rose Byrne can’t do and do well? The franchise obviously needed a fresh start, but if they’re going to go with this cast, it needs to get darker.

I guess I’ll just go back to waiting for Captain America. 

Oh, and once again…….Jennifer Lawrence……marry me.

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