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Palo Alto movie review (Edinburgh International Film Festival)

Tue, Jul 08, 2014
9 comments

A meditative contemplation of the boredom of overprivileged, under-aspiring, shallow, spoiled kids. As you’ve been dying to see.

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Veronica Mars review: fan service included

Tue, Mar 25, 2014
65 comments

I’ve never seen the show that spawned it, but it was still exactly what I was expecting. I am neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed by it. I am whelmed.

| 65 Comments

2014 preview: only movies left underived

Wed, Jan 15, 2014
1 comment

Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.

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Homefront review: ridiculous yet predictable yet kinda fun

Mon, Dec 02, 2013
2 comments

Jason Statham teams up with another badass little girl… which makes him almost warm and charming as he kicks the crap out of villains.

| 2 Comments

As I Lay Dying review (London Film Festival)

Mon, Sep 23, 2013
5 comments

If this isn’t a deliberate parody of furiously solemn, self-conscious artistic pretension, it’s an accidental one.

| 5 Comments

cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival

Thu, Sep 05, 2013
5 comments

I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.

| 5 Comments

which celebrities would survive which kind of apocalypse?

Mon, Jun 10, 2013
8 comments

Does Matthew McConaughey’s full-body drawl doom him in the fast-zombie uprising? Will Ryan Gosling survive global warming because he’s totally hot already?

| 8 Comments

This Is The End review: supergood

Sun, Jun 09, 2013
18 comments

I died laughing… and I’ve found a new respect for a Hollywood posse whose work I mostly haven’t enjoyed before.

| 18 Comments

Michael Shannon will cut you up (The Iceman review)

Thu, May 02, 2013
1 comment

Though based on copious interviews mob killer Richard Kuklinski gave from prison, this barely broaches the great mystery of his life…

| 1 Comment

fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Mar 30-Apr 5 2013

Sun, Apr 07, 2013
1 comment

Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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