Almost immediately upon putting it in my laptop (what, I was sleepy) it because obvious how The Boys of Baraka came to be in my Netflix queue. It’s about at-risk youth in inner city….BALTIMORE! Yeah! It’s like season 4 of The Wire in real life!
Only, not really.
The Boys of Baraka is actually a documentary about [...]
The redbox at Jon’s strikes again. I think the mailman is stealing my Netflix because they are getting to me way slower than they used to. I mean, I really don’t think the mailman would even want my documentary about African schools, but whatever. So instead I watched Gigantic, starring indie sweethearts Paul Dano and [...]
If you live in L.A., read this blog, and don’t know about American Cinematheque, well honestly, you probably don’t exist, but if you do! Check them out because they have a lot of (some) cool programs and some REALLY cool ones. Last year I went to a screening of The Dark Knight with a Q&A [...]
I’m a busy lady. If Super Bowl commercials are to be believed, I’m busy doing things like using my sex appeal to trap innocent horny men into unhappy relationships, but actually I just like to drink a lot and that takes up precious time — pre-partying, actual drinking, post-drinking carb binge — I just don’t [...]
So my “blog every movie” experiment has so far encouraged me to…not watch movies. But! Last night I finally did. I ventured to the “far” redbox at the Jons (with a J), which has a much better selection than the “near” redbox at Vons (with a V) because the clientele at Jons has tastes that [...]
Some day I will stop getting excited about movies. I will learn my lesson and go into even the most highly touted and slickly marketed film skeptical and broken. Unfortunately this has not happened yet and in I went to see A Single Man expecting Tom Ford to translate his piercing stare and effortless style [...]
If you haven’t seen Avatar, there are a lot of reasons that you should. It’s technically and visually spectacular. It’s made a billion dollars (not like, “Haha — it made like a billion dollars!” but actually, literally, a billion dollars). So that means it probably is some kind of cultural touchstone now so that if [...]
Last night I had this really amazingly gory gruesome dream where I had this summer job working for some rich eccentric guy. Me and like 5 of my facebook friends were all working for him, only there wasn’t really any work instead he just put together these puzzles and challenges kind of like on Survivor [...]
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) travels a lot. He flies all over the country telling people that they’ve been fired but it’s going to be OK. He rarely sees his sisters and has no wife, children, girlfriend or dog. He is happy that way. UNTIL ONE DAY HE IS NOT.
The movie opens with a series of [...]
I’ve gotten to the point in my tenure as a Netflix customer (I like how they call it “member” like it’s exclusive) where movies will show up in my queue and I will have no idea what my thought process was when I decided to add them. Such was the case when Overnight showed up [...]