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Zero Dark Thirty

I’m guesting on movie podcast SpyHards again

Tue, Jan 10, 2023
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I join special agents Scott and Cam to talk about the 2017 Doug Liman film American Made.

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The Batman movie review: to bat, or not to bat

Sun, Mar 06, 2022
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No snark, no spandex pantomime spectacle. Just noir mystery, Pattinson’s sad recluse a detective in a cesspit of corruption. Relentlessly grim, all darkness and despair, not escapist but of our time.

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I’m guesting on movie podcast SpyHards

Tue, Jan 11, 2022
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I join special agents Scott and Cam to talk about the 2012 Kathryn Bigelow film Zero Dark Thirty.

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Detroit movie review: racism 101 for white people

Thu, Aug 31, 2017
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Tense, gripping, enraging, but only about things that black Americans already know. This is a primer about racism for white people, and we must pay attention.

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your awards-season cheat sheet… or how to sound like an insider (even if you’re not)

Tue, Nov 19, 2013
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Shhh! don’t tell anywhere where you heard all this…

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only 18 percent of 2013’s US wide releases are exclusively about girls or women (and 60 percent exclusively about men)

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
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Hint: That’s not enough.

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a feminist film critic defends the Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet

Mon, Feb 25, 2013
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Yeah, I’m going there.

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Oscar Oscar Oscar (and other adventures in social networking)

Sun, Feb 24, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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QOTD: Is a filmmaker’s primary responsibility to the truth or to a good story?

Wed, Feb 20, 2013
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Three Oscar nominees for Best Picture — Argo, Lincoln, and Zero Dark Thirty — have come under criticism that they’re not entirely as factual as they might be…

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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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