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The word that says it all

January 4, 2014 by Dave Knadler

wolf of wall street f-word

Sometimes as a kid I’d pick a word at random and just repeat it over and over. I found it interesting how quickly the word would lose its meaning and become just this odd sound issuing from my mouth. (Yeah, I had kind of a relaxed schedule as a kid.) I thought of this […]

Filed Under: american life, Movies, Writing

It’s always a good day for “Groundhog Day”

February 1, 2013 by Dave Knadler

The other day we were talking about which movie to see next, and Tess mentioned Silver Linings Playbook. “But then,” she said, “I know how you hate romantic comedies.” That’s unfair. I don’t hate romantic comedies at all. I just hate almost any American romantic comedy made, say, in the past 10 or 15 […]

Filed Under: Movies

My favorite Oscar contenders so far

January 29, 2013 by Dave Knadler

So far I’ve seen six of the nine Oscar nominees for best picture. Still unviewed: Amour, Django Unchained and Silver Linings Playbook. Of the ones I’ve seen, four are superb. It’s tough to rank them in order of preference. In any case, I won’t be howling at my TV if any of these four […]

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The kid carries the picture

January 13, 2013 by Dave Knadler

I seem to be in the minority on this, but I do not care for the Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild. It might be, as some say, a “magical” celebration of childhood resilience, but it is also a celebration of ignorance, squalor and adult dissolution. Its precocious star, little Quvenzhane Wallis, carries the […]

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How to review a film without seeing it

June 15, 2012 by Dave Knadler

Well, I never saw this coming: Adam Sandler’s latest exercise in puerile nastiness appears to be the biggest piece of crap since … well, since Jack and Jill way back in 2011. Oh wait. I did see it coming. I know we still have half a year to go, but That’s My Boy appears […]

Filed Under: Movies

Seen any ancient films lately?

June 11, 2012 by Dave Knadler

Lately we’ve been watching really old movies, streamed through our really old Wii to our really big TV. Old movies — black-and-white ones that mostly seem to star Barbara Stanwyck — are about all we have left. We’ve gone through all the good shows on streaming Netflix and Hulu Plus, then through the OK […]

Filed Under: film noir, Movies, tv

Summer movies: One in 33 ain’t bad

April 30, 2012 by Dave Knadler

noomi rapace in prometheus

Having just perused this preview of 33 movies to be released this summer, I am interested in exactly one of them: Prometheus. Two reasons: Intelligent science fiction is hard to find, and director Ridley Scott has proven that it needn’t involve giant shape-changing robots. In fact, his classic Alien and a couple of its […]

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