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20 February 2009
The Great Debaters (2007)
I was only half watching this on a ski trip, so I may not be fully cognizant of the particulars of the screenplay, which was far better than it deserved to be. It’s the same zero-to-hero type story about nurturing young minds and creating passionate individuals set in a different context. But here are a [...]
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18 February 2009
Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)
It’s kind of a shame that more often than not a show this good languishes in obscurity until its inevitable cancelation. But saying that is an easy thing, looking back. I’m not sure I’ve ever been invested in a TV show on the brink and been forced to reconcile that disappointment with what’s-not-coming.
Here, we’re forced [...]
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15 February 2009
Gran Torino (2008)
Cranky old racist man learns to love and respect the little ones next door? Eugene latched onto the Clint Eastwood perennial Dirty Harry performance, and much of the undeniably awkward performances/writing. “Oscar?! This??,” he kept asking, incredulously.
It’s a pretty clunky movie, but I find Clint Eastwood’s movies to be interesting in a way that recalls [...]
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9 February 2009
Total Recall (1990)
“If I’m not me, then who the hell am I?”
Roger Ebert pins the success of Total Recall on Schwarzenegger’s performance – and while you can revel in the science fiction base of Philip K. Dick all you want, Ebert’s right – it still doesn’t work if Schwarzenegger somehow doesn’t manage to believable as a fish-out-of-water [...]
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8 February 2009
Save Me (2007)
This was a surprisingly good movie. Eugene and I have an ongoing journey to find good “gay” movies, and it often results in watching anything on Netflix that has more than an average of three stars in the gay and lesbian category. This unfortunately leads to watching some awful, awful stuff. So imagine the relief [...]
