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 review:...
10 Word (or less) Film Review
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 terrible...
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
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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 often...
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...
