July 2010
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WatchThis is amazing. German design students Felix Meyer and Pascal Monaco gave 35 movies the minimalist treatment and put together a crazy collage of classic film. It’s called “35 Movies in 2 Minutes” or just “35MM.”
I got 21. How many did you get?
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
Inception
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page
Plot: ”In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job till date, Inception.”
Review: Jesus, was this film a kickass dream or epic...
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The Runaways
Directed by: Floria Sigismondi
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon
Plot: ”A coming-of-age biopic about ’70s teenage band The Runaways.”
Review: Sex, drugs and rock and roll! … Plus, some terrible storytelling. (C+)
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Directed by: Niels Arden Oplev
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Sofia Ledarp
Plot: ”A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing — or dead — for forty years by a young female hacker.”
Review: The best Swedish things ever: Fish. Meatballs. Thriller movies. (A)
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WatchThis video is not only stunning, but also facinating (and totally deserving of the Academy Award). Who knew you could be over six and care about Ronald McDonald? Not I.
This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and...
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Song of the Day: “Seven Nation Army”...
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
Toy Story 3
Directed by: Lee Unkrich
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack
Plot: ” Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college.”
Review: Damnit, Pixar! Now even playing with toys makes me cry. (A)
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Hot Tub Time Machine
Directed by: Steve Pink
Starring: John Cusack, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson
Plot: ”Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.”
Review: Hot tubs? Time machines? This movie has everything! (B+)
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Edge of Darkness
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Starring: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
Plot: ” As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion.”
Review: Mel Gibson hasn’t kicked this much ass since Hanukah. (B+)
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Starring: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario
With: Uma Thurman, Sean Bean, Piece Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson and Catherine Keener
Plot: ” A teenager discovers he’s the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the...
June 2010
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
Youth In Revolt
Directed by: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart
Plot: ”While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she’ll be the one to take away his virginity.”
Review: Watch Micahel Cera stage the most boring rebellion ever. (Alternate...
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When in Rome
Directed by: Mark Steven Johnson
Starring: Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Anjeica Houston
Plot: ”Beth is a young, ambitious New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. However, on a whirlwind trip to Rome, she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love, and is then aggressively pursued by a band of suitors.”
Review: …Make...
Buy My Stuff
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! For many days only, we’re having a blowout sale at Alex’s apartment. I’m packing up, and you get all the deals! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
Seriously, I am moving and have furniture I don’t want to bring to the new apartment. It’s not that it’s bad, I just don’t need it anymore and I’d rather have it go to a good home (also, you know, make a little cash off of it.)
What I’m...
Song of the day: “Float On” - a...
Halfway, Baby! →
Watch This, our yearlong film project, will be halfway done next Wednesday. We’re going to celebrating as well as watching a movie, so come do both! Or don’t!
Song of the day: “Backstreet Lovers”...
Watch This Fundraiser - BINGO! →
Watch This is having it’s first fundraiser and we’re going to play some bingo! There’s a $5 suggestion donation per bingo card, and all of that money goes to Watch This! This means we can keep showing our awesome movies for free all around Cincinnati. (Seriously, we make no money off of this – we’re just trying to pay for screening rights)
Click on the link above to learn more!
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
The Book of Eli
Directed by: Albert and Allen Hughes
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis
Plot: “A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.”
Review: New age apocalypse meets old world religion? Pass. (C-)
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Reason why Twitter makes me a happy geek
I watch the fantastic mind-blow film Primer. I tweet that I loved the fantastic mind-blow film Primer. David Sullivan, one of the two main actors from the film, tweets me thanking me for tweeting that I loved the fantastic mind-blow film Primer.
And I become a happy, happy geek.
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WatchGood news everyone! Futurama is coming back with brand new episodes on June 24th, starting with a one-hour premier. It’s the first new episode in seven years! HUZZAH!
Comedy Central has just released the first minute and a half of that new episode, so give it a go if you can’t wait (like me).
The Best Songs of 2010! (so far)
All,
About six months ago, I went through a long explanation of how A) I’m still very close with a group of guys I basically met in 3rd Grade and B) twice a year I make a CD for them full of good new music - Now, the mix isn’t just new songs (although mostly it is), but songs that are new to me. Stuff I first heard since the last mix was made. (Original post can be found here: “A...
"Glee, I Love You, But You Need To Stop" →
Here is my latest article for online-magazine Splice Today, about the one major issue in Fox’s hit show (which, seriously, I do love). Give it a read and let me know what you think!
Animated GIF of the Day: GIF Roll
thedailywhat:
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Thank you Internet.
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
Shutter Island
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsly
Plot: “Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.”
Review: Dear Martin, please make good, passionate films again....
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Legion
Directed by: Scott Stewart
Starring: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Kate Walsh
Plot: “An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race, when God loses faith in humankind.”
Review: God’s clearly furious with humanity if he delivered this crap. (D)
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Invictus
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Plot: “Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.”
Review: Who knew Rugby was this sentimental? (B)
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Daybreakers
Directed by: Michael and Peter Spierig
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Claudia Karvan, William Dafoe
Plot: “In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.”
Review: Gory fun, but...
MovieFest, to the Power of 10
It started with a dream – and a Steven King book
Back in 2000, I was a freshman at Longmeadow High School, in Longmeadow, Massachusetts (a little suburb right next to Springfield, Mass, birthplace of basketball). I had just finished “The Stand,” an epic 1,000+ page novel about the battle of good and evil, which, like all of Mr. King’s books, ends disappointingly. Still, I loved it.
Then I found...
May 2010
12 posts
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
The Lovely Bones
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Mark Whalberg, Rachel Weisz
Plot: “A young girl, who has been murdered, watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.”
Review: Sentimental, psychedelic garbage - but Stanley Tucci was damn evil! (C)
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Kick-Ass
Directed by: Mathew Vaughn
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz
Plot: “Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.”
Review: Kick-ass? No, but it was pretty good. (B+)
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits
Plot: “A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.”
Review: Weird, disjointed and beautiful - the perfect last film for Heath. (B)
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Pirate Radio (AKA The Boat That Rocked)
Directed by: Richard Curtis
Starring: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost
Plot: “A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s.”
Review: This movie did indeed rock … at least, the music part did. (B-)
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The Blind Side
Directed by: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw
Plot: “The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.”
Review: Bullock deserved her Oscar, everything else deserved my money back. (B-)
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It’s Complicated
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alex Baldwin
Plot: “When attending their son’s college graduation, a couple reignite the spark in their relationship…but the complicated fact is they’re divorced and he’s remarried.”
Review: Over 45? You’ll love it. Under 45? Eh. (B+)
Me: I’m jealous of other people for their ability to be jealous of how awesome we are.
Allison: Yeah, we’re deprived of the ability to be jealous of us because we ARE us.
Me: It’s so not fair.
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"Forever Young" - My first article for Splice... →
I’ve begun professionally freelancing for the online pop-culture magazine, Splice Today, founded by publisher Russ Smith. Above is a link for my first article, a peice on Heath Ledger’s actuall last movie, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Give it a read!
Watchthedailywhat:
In Case You Missed It of the Day: Conan O’Brien speaks with 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft — his first interview since his very-public breakup with NBC — criticizing carefully so as to not run afoul of his non-disparagement agreement.
Money: “Jay’s got The Tonight Show. I have a beard and an inflatable bat. And I’m touring city to city. Who can say who won and who lost?”
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Song of the day: “First of May”...
April 2010
12 posts
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Your Name Here
I remember the first screen name I ever had.
I was about 11 and we had an awesome dial-up Internet connection. At that time, we were still paying by the minute instead of a flat fee (because, my god, who would ever pay that much to use the Internet all the time!?) I didn’t have a Web page, I didn’t have an e-mail address, hell I couldn’t even log on without my parents permission.
But what I...
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer
Plot: “Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.”
Review: My god, neither Nic Cage or the movie was bad! (A)
