August 2012
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Cast Photo: "Bachelorette"
2012: Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher, Kristen Dunst, & Rebel Wilson for Bachelorette at Sundance
My Take: A film of beautiful people that tries to take advantage of the along-for-the ride, bachelor/bachelorette party phenomenon created by The Hangover and Braidsmaids and cover the gambit of friends, enemies, and frenemies you would have encountered in high school and still be in your lives 10...
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"Before Sunrise", "Before Sunset", and.. "Before... →
I don’t post alot of news on this site, but I have a love/hate, they should/they shouldn’t kind of fascination with the decision of Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy to do a movie to follow up Before Sunrise & Before Sunset (two of my favorite movies ever which is constantly on repeat and has produced my favorite onscreen couple). There are reports that the third movie...
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Social Commentary in Film: Would You Blindly Obey...
I’m back! Or did you not really notice I was gone? I was really busy traveling to Asia (where you know, there is a 12 hour time difference) so I took a week or so off from blogging… but I’m back with some new posts. Hope you stayed with me.
Last week my friend Cortney and I attended a free screening of the 2012 Sundance film Compliance. I posted previously about my slow...
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Cast Photo: "2 Days in New York"
2012: Julie Delpy and Chris Rock for 2 Days in New York at Sundance
Read my review and see photos from the screening at Tribeca….
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My Life Lately
… or “How I got them in before I jumped on a plane”
Man, how I’ve been busy lately. Pretty much too busy to do much blogging with my regular day job, some new freelance projects on the side (starting a new business!), celebrating BDays (apparently everyone I know was born at the beginning of Aug) and, you know, alittle bit of sleep inbetween. To add to that, I just hopped...
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Blog Award!
A blog award is circulating around my fellow blogger called The Liebster Award. It is given to a blogger in recognition of quality work. I have been fortunate enough to receive it from two people - Vern over at Vern’s Videovangaurd and Chris at Movies And Songs 365. Thank you so much, guys, for thinking of me! I really appreciate it.
In acceptance of this award, there are a couple of...
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012 (TIFF):...
Earlier this week, more films were announced. Here are more films I hope to see in Toronto to add to my initial list:
Seven Psychopaths Directed and written by Martin McDonagh
Synopsis: An alcoholic screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling to write a serial-killer script gets more real-life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his...
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Drama + New York City = "25th Hour"
Thanks to Lesya over at Eternity of Dream for continuing her “…In Genre” series. I’m glad to be one of the bloggers who gets to contribute. As a reminder, the object of this series is to recommend in a few sentences a movie about or set in the city in question in a film genre of your choosing. After everyone has submitted there recommendations, there will be one film for...