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even The New York Times has given up on quality film journalism

Thu, Aug 14, 2014
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Two well-off white men on class warfare, what’s good for women in Hollywood, and — most importantly — some movies they haven’t even seen yet.

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young indie filmmaker apologizes for inventing a quote from me to promote his film

Fri, Jul 25, 2014
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And I’m done with this.

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punk-ass indie filmmaker fakes a quote from me to support his movie, gets smacked, hides like a chickenshit (updated)

Thu, Jul 24, 2014
30 comments

How Not to Be an Aspiring Filmmaker, Young Asshole Edition.

| 30 Comments

Chef movie review: very tasty

Fri, Jun 27, 2014
11 comments

Jon Favreau’s midlife artistic crisis rendered as food porn. Funny, poignant, and wise, though the wish-fulfillment romantic fantasy of it is a tad much.

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my reads: Rivers of London and London Falling

Mon, Jun 23, 2014
29 comments

The incredibly surface similarities between these two urban fantasy series in no way hampered my immense enjoyment of either.

| 29 Comments

Frank movie review: the heart of artness

Fri, May 09, 2014
7 comments

A bitter dramedy of creative desperation that has something sneakily marvelous to say about what it takes — and what it doesn’t — to be an artist.

| 7 Comments

you have to see this Australian Muppets Most Wanted TV ad

Fri, Apr 11, 2014
7 comments

Studios quoting random people on Twitter needed a takedown, and this is it.

| 7 Comments

The Monuments Men review: saving private collections (and public art)

Thu, Feb 13, 2014
33 comments

As jaunty as Jean Dujardin’s beret, but in a sincere, old-fashioned kind of way. It could almost have been rediscovered from the 1940s…

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Doctor Who thing: 20-foot scarf in the wind

Thu, Feb 13, 2014
2 comments

Fan Neil Macdonald took his Fourth Doctor scarf out in the incredible wind yesterday in Liverpool…

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Doctor Who thing: Episode 5 of the Doctor Puppet

Thu, Feb 06, 2014
1 comment

So many puppet Doctors! I’m dying from the cute.

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