Yesterday’s Oscar Poker (#11) was mainly about (a) reacting to the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award, (b) The Fighter and (c) Tron. It was just Sasha and myself — boxoffice.com‘s Phil Contrino was absent with family matters. Here’s an independent, non-iTunes link. “Tremendous for The Social Network…this was an anti-Natalie Portman vote… Kenneth Turan hated Black Swan…Annette Bening has a lot of friends,” etc.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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