I finally got to see John Hillcoat and Joe Penhall’s film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road this weekend, and I was not disappointed. McCarthy’s bleak post-apocalyptic father-and-son story is one of my favorite books. The film is extremely faithful, though sadly it leaves out the baby-eating, one of the most memorable scenes from the [...]
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December 4th, 2008
[Note: I wrote this way back when these two movies were both in theaters, and it's been sitting in draft mode since then. I don't have much more to add, so I'm just going to publish it as-is. Enjoy!] I am hereby requesting a voluntary moratorium on super hero movies themed around the duality [...] December 1st, 2008
Caught the Stella show at the Keswick in Glenside last night. They are greatly underappreciated, as the woeful attendance would attest – though the wisdom of an act whose main audience is college kids booking a show at 8 pm the Sunday after Thanksgiving is questionable. Stella is hard to explain. Their material runs from [...] June 27th, 2008
I’ve been enjoying Scott Kurtz’s webcomic “PVP” for almost a year now (and wishing I’d discovered the strip years sooner!) but today’s might be my favorite ever. Timing in cartooning is not the easiest thing, but this is masterful. The joke might seem kind of obvious to those of you who are not fans, but it [...] August 6th, 2007
I just got back from seeing a special screening of Charles Ferguson’s brilliant No End in Sight, and all I have to say is GO SEE THIS MOVIE. My review of Sicko is going to have to wait until tomorrow. Whether you are Democrat or Republican, whether you believed in the War in Iraq or [...] |
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