Newsflash: The movie business is a huge clusterfuck

and I can’t decide how to feel about that:

(1) Elation? Michael Cera in a movie directed by Edgar Wright in which “a young slacker [...]meets the woman of his dreams but finds that he can only win her heart by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends. ” Oh yes, tell me more, Hollywood Reporter!
(2) [...]

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Zodiac

Back in high school, I may not have been a popular kid.  Or particularly cool.  Or into music or art or school or computers or anything that might have taken me anywhere in life.  But I did know a lot about serial killers. I have found, over the course of growing up, moving out and [...]

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Reaction to Minutes 22-40 of Layer Cake

What the hell is going on?
Does Daniel Craig wear contacts?
Why is that girl with the machine gun crying?
Fuck it, let’s go get drunk.

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Bully

When guys get really upset and cry in real life, do they drool? Because that seems to happen a lot in movies. Would an answer to this burning question be worth investing the time and energy it might take to make a guy cry like this? I don’t think so…I really don’t like seeing boys [...]

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Drunk Reviews: The Last Picture Show

So, this should probably be called “buzzed review” because I’m not really *drunk* – but that’s getting pretty technical, so whatever.
The Last Picture Show is really beautiful – not just the cinematography which is clean and expressive, but the story and the characters are really made beautiful by their flaws.
There are also lots of boobs.
Something [...]

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SXSW

Don’t get too excited, I didn’t go there. Maybe next year. But I was just reading about it in this LA Times article, with the oh-so-clever headline “Like its well-fed folks, the Austin, Texas, gathering is swelling” (aren’t there too many commas in there?).
I wanted to go to SXSW (I don’t get a [...]

Sliding Doors

Sliding Doors is a movie for girls.  I am a girl.  I love this movie.
It’s one of those WHAT IF movies that starts with WHAT IF Gwyneth Paltrow does a British accent?
WHAT IF she is adorable and misses her train so she doesn’t find out that her boyfriend with the bad haircut is cheating on [...]

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Off Topical: Obaminable

from the LA Times:
Sen. Barack Obama accused rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton today of attempting to “hoodwink” and “bamboozle” voters into thinking she was the front-runner by offering him the second slot on her ticket.
from yours truly:

 Hoodwinked?

Bamboozled?

What are you trying to say?  That supporting Hilary is akin to supporting bad CGI and implications of racism?  [...]

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Drugstore Cowboy

The title of Drugstore Cowboy always makes me think of that 311 song that goes “I know a drugstore cowboy / so afraid of getting bored…” Remember 311? Weren’t they from Omaha or something?
This Gus Van Sant movie is a lot better than that song, though. A young and sexy Bob (Matt [...]

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Two People That Accidentally Got Oscars

Which was least deserved?
More importantly, who has better tits?

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