Category: Filmmakers Bleed
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My Year Of Flops: “The Love Guru” [FB]
A smart, talented, accomplished writer-actor like Myers spending years meticulously creating, rehearsing, and refining an obnoxious one-note cartoon like Guru Pitka is a like a group of brilliant scientists working around the clock for a decade to build a malfunctioning fart machine: a surreal waste of time, energy and manpower. -Nathan Rabin. “My Year Of […]
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More on Why “The Help” Is Whitewashing The Past [FB/YCQMOT]
There was no real-life book similar to Skeeter’s magnum opus; it’s a fictional flourish that feels like a college-educated white liberal’s wish-fulfillment fantasy of how she would have conducted herself had she been time-warped back to the civil rights era. I wouldn’t have just stood by and let it happen. I would have done something! […]
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What I’ve Been Doing 15 Aug 2011 [FB/IB/BT/GO]
Movies Blade Runner – Until today I’d never seen what many people consider to be the greatest sci-fi movie ever made. Fixed that this week. It’s an amazing movie full of symbolism and all kinds of neat visual imagery, but I didn’t love watching it. Definitely important to see, but you might not have a […]
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What I’ve Been Doing 8 Aug 2011 [FB/IB/BT/GO]
Movies Horrible Bosses – Part of me thought it was hilarious and part of me thought it was passable. There were some really strange story beats in this no doubt because this wasn’t the dark comedy it was advertised to be. I dunno what the proper word for it would be…dim comedy? Without implying that […]
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White Guilt and The Help [FB]
Listen, this isn’t going to be a detailed, well-researched piece on white guilt. Heck, it isn’t even slightly researched at all. I have neither seen the movie nor have I read the book, but I find this kind of thing troubling, so I’m gonna speak on it for a few seconds. The Help is being […]
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August Movie Preview [FB]
Let Ryan Davis and Matt Rorie school you in what’s coming out in theaters this month