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Django Unchained

The Hateful Eight movie review: all hat, no cattle

Mon, Jan 11, 2016
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Inexcusably self-indulgent. Tarantino gratifies his enormous self-love and his amusement at his own genius at the expense of all else.

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QOTD: What did you love and hate about the Oscars?

Mon, Feb 25, 2013
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Seth MacFarlane sang about boobs, but Argo won Best Picture — yay! Meanwhile Joaquin Phoenix is not amused…

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the 85th Academy Award nominees

Tue, Feb 12, 2013
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With links to my reviews. I’ll be adding reviews of the last few films I haven’t yet covered between now and the Oscars.

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question of the day: What do you think of the Golden Globe winners (and losers)?

Mon, Jan 14, 2013
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Feel free to talk about the TV side as well, if you like…

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Raiders of the Lost Ark. in black and white. total cinemagasm (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Dec 21, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Django Unchained (review)

Thu, Dec 20, 2012
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Quentin Tarantino spins a dark fantasia of the pre-Civil War South that is hilarious, ferocious, shocking, and wise, sometimes all at once.

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Django Unchained (trailer)

Tue, Jun 12, 2012
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Looks like we have our feel-good exploitation violently bloody revenge flick of the holiday season.

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if Shakespeare wrote about the modern English royal family (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Jun 06, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: What is your most anticipated movie of 2012?

Mon, Jan 02, 2012
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I gotta go with The Hobbit. I think I might well be happy to have no other movie but The Hobbit to watch this year.

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