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Tim Robbins

weekend watchlist: sweet, funny, frank pillow talk

Tue, Oct 11, 2022
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Plus apocalyptic adolescence, exasperating planetary levels of bureaucracy, and more… (First published September 10th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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Dark Waters movie review: capitalism will kill ya

Thu, Feb 20, 2020
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If you like these sorts of movies, you’ll like this one, a solid SJW drama out to condemn, with plenty of evidence, profit-above-all capitalism that embraces willful negligence and corruption.

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from Facebook: Tim Robbins helps keep convicts from relapsing into crime with art

Tue, Mar 15, 2016
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from Facebook: Bob Roberts speaks to the future from 1992

Thu, Mar 03, 2016
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A Perfect Day movie review: war is hellacious

Fri, Jan 15, 2016
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This compact little satire — set in 1990s Balkans — is a small, personal story about huge unfairnesses and injustices. Bleakly, bitterly, blackly funny.

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Welcome to Me movie review: the ultimate selfie

Sun, Jun 21, 2015
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A sort of miracle. A black comedy about a not-well woman saving herself is a savage satire on a not-well world that doesn’t realize anything’s wrong.

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Life of Crime movie review: minor misdemeanor

Fri, Sep 05, 2014
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Low-key black comedy and sporadic horror lazily pop up among the crime drama, but never enough of either to score many zings.

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Green Lantern (review)

Fri, Jun 17, 2011
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I am consumed by the aubergine power of muddled confusion and despair.

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female gazing extra: “Men in Film”

Sat, Feb 19, 2011
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A hundred years of handsome Hollywood hotties, from Douglas Fairbanks Sr. to George Clooney, in three and a half minutes…

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cinematic roots of: ‘The Social Network’

Mon, Oct 04, 2010
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In The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg invents Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, only to have all his friends and enemies sue him claiming he stole their ideas. This flick sprang from (among other films)…

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