The Secret of the Wednesday’s Haul

Musing about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earlier, I wondered if I was going to get another Raiders of the Lost Arc, a movie I love, or a Last Crusade, one I merely enjoy. Well, I guess the answer is that I’m going to prefer to remember the Indiana Jones [...]

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I’m going to cheat a bit this week. When I first started this little year-long project, my initial plan was to watch 52 movies and then write about them. But before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull comes out, I wanted to write a bit about the first three movies, [...]

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Welcome to the 21st century cartoon. Only know it’s a semi-live action/adventure movie.Let’s set up why this may be the perfect movie for me.Whenever I talk about the Wachowski brothers (or siblings or whatever they are now,) I always feel the need to throw up the preface that I actually like all three Matrix [...]

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(note: Yes, I’m far behind on these movie posts but May looks to be a month to catch up. Look for at least weekly movie talk beginning with this one. Hopefully I’ll even have a second one up this week.)“I’m not the hero type… Clearly.”Let’s talk a bit about what makes a [...]

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During the course of The Philadelphia Story, Tracy Lords (Katherine Hepburn) is given many titles and roles. First off, there’s her own last name- “Lords” and everything that it implies. She’s also called a “goddess,” “Justice with her shiny sword,” and even “virgin goddess.” Tracy has set up this image of herself [...]

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“This is the story of The Losers.”
That’s what a lost soldier on a lost island carves into a cave wall, trying to leave behind some remembrance that he and his team [...]

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It’s too easy to miss what’s right in front of your eyes. Wilson had Jenny, his daughter, and she was right there but he missed it. Actually he saw and remembers it all but “in increments” he tells Elaine. Those increments are the times during Jenny’s childhood that he wasn’t in jail. [...]

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Have you heard the one about two hitmen who walk into a bar in Bruges, Belgium?

Well, that actually does happen in Martin McDonagh new movie In Bruges but it’s not the main point. Two hitmen, Ray (Collin Farrel) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are shipped off to Bruges after a botched hit for at least [...]

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I wonder if Good Night, and Good Luck loses something if you’re not at a certain age. For me, the Red Scare and Senator Joe McCarthy were already a part of American history by the time I was reading the history books [...]

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“I wish I could yodel.”
Forget whatever happened after 1978. Forget the arguing about rights to the music. Forget about most of the musicians spending the next 12 years touring still. Forget about the tragic death and suicide. At least, for the time being, forget about all of those. For one [...]

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If ever a movie deserved to be called “comic booky” with that meant in the pejorative, it’s got to be Smoking Aces, Joe Carnahan’s tribute to guns, violence and the ability to have a movie without an actual story. Somewhere in this mess of a movie is the unfulfilled promise of a story about [...]

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Oil and water don’t mix.Taking that past the metaphor stage, commerce and religion don’t mix. In Paul Thomas [...]

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could swear I’ve watched My Neighbor Totoro before but honestly, I hardly remember any of it. The movie is about Satsuki and her younger sister Mei, just recently moved to the country with their father. Their mother is sick in a hospital that’s a 3 hour walk away. Their new neighbors [...]

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Note: 52 Movies is an attempt to watch and write about 52 movies in 52 weeks during 2008.
Before Sunrise is a movie that I should have seen over 10 years ago, when I was more contemporary with the 20-something main characters Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy,) when I was young, stupid and [...]

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