What I’ve Watched: Dear Zachary

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Beyond just reviewing the movies I see, I am sometimes compelled to tell this audience that a movie is so important that you darn-near need to drop what you are doing and watch it. Dear Zachary is that kind of movie. And it’s such a good movie that I don’t even want to discuss all […]

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What I’ve Watched: Movie Madness

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It was a movie-filled weekend for me. Luke was in town, needing the escape from Lexington. The weather was pretty crummy this weekend (and for the last month, as well), so after grubbing down a burger and a few beers we went and checked out a movie. Then Sunday night the goddess divine and I […]

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What I’ve Watched: Zack and Miri Make a Porno

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Being a fan of Kevin Smith films has never been hard for me. Some people grew up on certain musicians and cultural lightning rods. One of mine was certain Clerks and all the other subsequent films Smith made. Chasing Amy was the perfect (if not refined) date movie and its still great to see Ben […]

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What I’ve Watched: W.

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It’s not that W. was a bad movie. Yes, I spent the first 30 minutes (and intermittently the rest of the way) through the film with my head in my hands, wondering for the 3 bagillionth time how Americans could have elected this numbskull to the office of president. Granted, this was a pseudo-fictionalized version […]

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My Childhood, Bastardized

I have to admit that when I was a kid, I was a huge GI Joe fan. I had the firgurines. I had the cars and the trucks and make-believed my way to American military dominance of my backyard and my best friend Jason’s attic. Storm Shadow, Snake Eyes, Gen. Hawk, Scarlett, Duke, Lady Jaye, […]

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What I’ve Watched: The Wrestler

This movie struck the right tone for Dan and I because we were in fact the best type of people to see it. Look, we’re both guys who were raised primarily by TV in the ’80s. Tom & Jerry, GI Joe, Transformers (not the over-the-top, unrecognizable Michael Bay stuff, the real thing), The Muppets and […]

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What I’ve Watched: Wall-E

To call Wall-E a love story would be too trite. To say it’s an environmental wake-up call to a generation of young viewers and their parents would place undue burdens on it. But to ignore that both of these themes resonate and are so strong and breath-takingly done would be to ignore what makes Wall-E […]

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What I’ve Watched: Man on Wire

Few films move you to gasp with amazement. Man on Wire definitely did this for me. I think it’s the melding of a man whose desire to entertain and challenge himself with the physicality of the buildings he tightropes across in this movie. That those buildings are the two World Trade Center towers make this […]

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What I’ve Watched: Vantage Point

I can barely contain myself. This movie is the essence of putrid. And it’s exactly the kind of movie that speaks to all of Hollywood’s ills. The lack of originality is stunning in Hollywood sometimes. Vantage Point is actually a remake, and though I have never seen the original, I sure as shit ain’t seeing […]

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