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24 February 2010
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
It’s been awhile since I read the collection of Wallace’s short stories, but I don’t remember being quite as appalled as I was by the film’s distillation of these short stories. In the book, they’re tempered by other stories and so maybe that’s why they seemed so awful in the movie, but the real destructive [...]
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4 February 2010
Planet Earth (2006): The Plains
Why is it when I randomly choose a disc of Planet Earth to watch, do I invariably pick the third disc? I must have seen these episodes four or five times, and always think: “Surely I haven’t seen the Plains episode yet!”. That shot of Shamu lurching out of the water to swallow a sea [...]
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4 February 2010
The Hurt Locker (2009)
The Hurt Locker is among the best of the Best Picture nominations. It doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Avatar let alone actually be in competition with it. They’re both spectacles, to be sure, but one has a depth of character and human understanding that is awful glossy in the other. [...]
