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Unnecessary Movie Reviews: There Will Be Blood
Closed Published by eightparts December 30th, 2007 on Eight PartsAfter the first 25 minutes of There Will Be Blood I was ready to tear up my best of 07 list and slot it right at the top. After an hour that still seemed like a great idea. Another hour and forty minutes later it was at the top of another list right […]
Unnecessary Movie Reviews: The Great Debaters
Closed Published by eightparts December 28th, 2007 on Eight PartsIf Hoosiers and Glory had a baby it would be The Great Debaters. Straight ahead, classic filmaking, debate as sport, underdogs, and racial tension. Oh, and Denzel Washington. There’s nothing cute or cutting edge or revolutionary about the movie, it’s just plain good. That’s a lot harder to do than it sounds. My sense is […]
Unnecessary Movie Reviews: Walk Hard
Closed Published by eightparts December 23rd, 2007 on Eight PartsUsually movies fall into one of two categories for me: theater or dvd, which really just means that they’re worth ten bucks a ticket or they aren’t. But my local AMC has started doling out 4 dollar tickets for weekend matinées, so now those movies that previously fell between the two categories have a home. […]
Juno’s been out long enough in other cities that I’ve not only sat through the initial crush of praise, but the first hints of backlash, so I went in ready for anything. It’s whip smart, funny, though not wildly so, and yeah, a little precious from moment to moment, but I liked it all the […]
Obligatory Best of Post - Less Obvious Categories
Closed Published by eightparts December 20th, 2007 on Eight PartsBest Thing I Found On The Internet - I’m a big fan of I Can Has Cheezeburger but since that’s really a series of things I’ll go with this
Arcade Fire/Sergio Leone mashup in which Once Upon A Time In The West gets edited down to about 4 minutes that somehow go perfectly with Arcade Fire’s […]
Obligatory Best of Post - Obvious Categories
Closed Published by eightparts December 19th, 2007 on Eight PartsI lived through this year the same as you, so I guess that makes me qualified to talk about all the things that made me glad I survived it.
First the obvious categories to be followed by the ones no one will care about but me. Who am I kidding? I’m the only one who cares […]
In case you were worried:
Contrary to internet rumor, Jessica Simpson’s latest movie, Dumb Blonde or something, won’t be getting a straight-to-video release. It’s going to be in theaters, like a big star’s movie would! How many screens? 8, all in the greater Texas area. Congrats, Jess!
In her defense, greater Texas is pretty big. Will it […]
Here’s the idea: Start in the 1840’s with a man looking to get back to San Francisco by sea, move on to the 1930’s as another character attempts to rescue his career by aiding a dying composer, then to the 1970’s where a cub reporter looks to take down those pulling strings behind a deadly […]
The best show currently airing (well, recently concluded) is on a channel you’re probably not sure you get. It’s about a world you’re probably not sure that you’re interested in, and it has a bunch of actors you probably haven’t heard of. If any of these things keep you from finding and enjoying […]
The Blank Slate is one of my favorite nonfiction books and one of the most enlightening reading experiences I’ve had. To say that I was anxiously awaiting Pinker’s follow up would be an understatement.
However, the Stuff of Thought isn’t so much a follow up to Pinker’s work on The Blank Slate and How the Mind […]