The Kingdom (review)

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We bring a lot of baggage with us into movies: preconceptions about certain actors, ideas about the kinds of events depicted. In the case of ‘The Kingdom,’ we’ve got certain expectations regarding, say, Jennifer Garner’s tough-gal persona, and certain expectations regarding what should be done about Middle Eastern terrorists who kill Americans, and certain expectations about how big, loud, Hollywood action movies will deal with throwing these things together.

previewing CBS’s ‘Moonlight’

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There’s a lot of genre stuff on TV this fall, and what would genre TV be without a gloomy, angst-ridden vampire private detective? We don’t have to ponder that this season, because there’s Moonlight, debuting tomorrow night on CBS at 9pm Eastern. It woulda been pretty darn funny if this was like Moonlighting with bloodsuckers … more…

‘Superhero!’ — like ‘Scary Movie’ with capes

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It’s enough to ruin your whole day. You’re zipping through the afternoon perfectly ignorant of the depths of depravity to which humanity can descend, and then it lands in your email inbox: a press release, though it’s more like a grenade. The deal? The Weinstein brothers are continuing their rampage through cinema with a new … more…

older than Google…

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Today is Google‘s ninth birthday. That means that FlickFilosopher.com is a year older than Google. Why do I feel like saying something on the Net is “older than Google” is like saying someone is “older than God”?

last chance to get in a vote for favorite review

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[as previously announced here] I’m in the process of putting together a book of my favorite reviews, which I hope to have ready very soon — November, maybe. And I’d like to include a Readers’ Choice. So here’s what I’d like you to do. Send me an email with one choice for your favorite review … more…