January 2011
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Lazy superheroes, George Clooney, The Muppets - this post has it all!
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10 Word (or less) Film Review
The Company Men
Directed by: John Wells
Starring: Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper
Plot: ”The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.”
Review: You think you getting fired would be depressing? Watch this.(B-)
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The King’s Speech
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Starring: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush
Plot: ”The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.”
Review: The movie was decent, but Colin Firth left me … speechless.(B+)
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The Art of the Steal
Directed by: Don Argott
Plot: “A Documentary that follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes’ 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.”
Review: Greed, fraud, conspiracies - screw fiction, truth is way more cinematic!(A)
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain”
– (For some reason, Mark Twain quotes have been resonating with me recently. This is one of just many good ones. Dude was cranky and amazing.)
My New Obsession(s)
Hey look, I started a new blog!
Basically, I’ve had a bunch of people come to me in the last few months asking what I’ve been watching, reading, listening to and enjoying - especially now as Watch This is over.
Figuring that, if you care enough to ask me in real life, you might like a quick weekly list of really new, fun, stuff… Not a bad assumption, I say. It’s going to...
The End of Watch This
A few of you … ok, maybe a bit more than a few … knew Allison and I had been watching all of the American Film Institutes’s Top 100 movies in a year, publicly throughout Cincinnati and always for free. It was partly to see if we could do it, partly to stop people whining about there being “nothing to do in Cincinnati,” and partly to spend some more time together - and...