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Watching Ebert: All the Real Girls (Green, 2003)

• August 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Watching Ebert
Tags: 500 Days of Summer, All The Real Girls, Benjamin Mouton, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Ebert's four star reviews, Maurice Compte, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Schneider, Roger Ebert, Shea Wigham, Watching Ebert, Zooey Deschanel

Inglourious Basterds: A Mixed Bloody Bag of Violence and Dialogue

• August 21, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Oscar buzz, Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino, Mike Myers, Inglourious Basterds, Eli Roth, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Nazis, Samm Levine, David Bowie, Inglorious Basterds, Inglorious Bastards, B.J. Novak, Diane Kruger, Robert Richardson, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Julie Dreyfus, Aldo Raine, Hans Landa, The Bear Jew, Daniel Bruhl, Fredrick Zoller, Adolf Hitler, Basterds, World War Two film

Shorts: Unfortunately, Not Short Enough

• August 21, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: William H. Macy, Leslie Mann, Robert Rodriguez, Shorts, Jimmy Bennett, Jon Cryer, James Spader, booger, loogie, Trevor Gagnon, Kat Dennings

Ponyo: Pure Hand-Drawn Magic

• August 21, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: The Brilliance of Pixar, Cate Blanchett, Lily Tomlin, Liam Neeson, John Lasseter, Betty White, Hayao Miyazaki, Ponyo, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Frankie Jonas, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman, Studio Ghibli, Japanimation, Sosuke, Fujimoto, The Little Mermaid

The Girlfriend Experience: Another Amateurish Soderbergh Experiment

• August 19, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Bubble, Chris Santos, digital film, escort service, experiment, experimental film, Full Frontal, Glenn Kenny, nude, Sasha Grey, Sasha Grey nude, Steven Soderbergh, The Girlfriend Experience

District 9: Close Encounters of the Prawn Kind

• August 16, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: 30 million, aliens, apartheid, Christopher Johnson, District 9, District Nine, finger, Johannesburg, MNU, Multi National United, Neill Blomkamp, Nigerians, Peter Jackson, prawn, prawns, racial, racial allegory, Racism, sci-fi, Sharlto Copley, spaceship, The Fly, Wikus van der Merwe

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard: Laugh Hard! The Goods Delivers

• August 15, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Judd Apatow, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Rob Riggle, Craig Robinson, Ed Helms, The Hangover, The Goods: The Don Ready Story, Neal Brennan, Jeremy Piven, Ken Jeong, Don Ready, The Goods, The Goods: Live Hard, The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard, James Brolin, David Koechner, Kathryn Hahn, Alan Thicke, Tony Hale, Charles Napier, Jordana Spiro, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Sadowski, Anchorman, Big Ups, Adam Stock, Rick Stempson

(500) Days of Summer- An Anti-Romcom That Warms and Breaks The Heart

• August 10, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: 500 Days of Summer, Clark Gregg, Hall and Oates, indie comedy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marc Webb, Michael Weber, Minka Kelly, Narrator, Romantic comedy, romcom, Scott Neustadter, Zooey Deschanel

How Joe Morgenstern’s Non-Review of GI Joe Hastens the Death of Film Criticism

• August 9, 2009 • 14 Comments

Posted in The Thoughts of Russell Hainline
Tags: death of film criticism, film criticism, film critics, film review, Film Reviews, GI Joe, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Hasbro, Joe Morgenstern, metacritic, movie criticism, movie review, movie reviews, Paramount Pictures, Rob Moore, rottentomatoes, Stephen Sommers, The Wall Street Journal, Transformers 2, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Fun is More Than Half The Battle

• August 8, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Film Reviews
Tags: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Arnold Vosloo, Breaker, Brendan Fraser, Byung-hun Lee, Channing Tatum, Christopher Eccleston, Cobra Commander, Dennis Quaid, Destro, Dr. Who, Duke, General Hawk, GI Joe, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Heavy Duty, Jonathan Pryce, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Karolina Kurkova, Kevin J. O'Connor, Marlon Wayans, nude, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Ripcord, Saïd Taghmaoui, Scarlett, Sienna Miller, Snake Eyes, Stephen Sommers, Storm Shadow, summer movie, The Baroness

The Password is Swordfish

Archive for August, 2009

Watching Ebert: All the Real Girls (Green, 2003)

Inglourious Basterds: A Mixed Bloody Bag of Violence and Dialogue

Shorts: Unfortunately, Not Short Enough

Ponyo: Pure Hand-Drawn Magic

The Girlfriend Experience: Another Amateurish Soderbergh Experiment

District 9: Close Encounters of the Prawn Kind

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard: Laugh Hard! The Goods Delivers

(500) Days of Summer- An Anti-Romcom That Warms and Breaks The Heart

How Joe Morgenstern’s Non-Review of GI Joe Hastens the Death of Film Criticism

GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Fun is More Than Half The Battle

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