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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me… don’t hurt me no more…) Seriously, though. We’re not sexually monogamous by nature, but we pair up with other people exclusively anyway. Also if you really think about it, every relationship you have ever been in or are in or … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 25, 2012 · 1 Comment
As Good as It Gets (1997) – Sometimes I get bored. Sometimes I get lethargic. Sometimes these feelings overlap. For those time, there is the wide world of cable television where, get this, THERE ARE ALWAYS MOVIES ON! Now my rules for writing reviews is that 1) the movie needs to be completely unedited and … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Carnage (2011) – As those who know me personally are probably aware, I am a theatre major. But to those who know me and those who don’t, I am a gigantic film geek (as evidenced by, you know, this whole site). So stage-to-screen adaptations intrigue me. Carnage, based on Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage, … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Contagion (2011) – A couple of years ago, there was a big scare over the H1N1 virus, or “swine flu” (or something like that, my recollection for specifics of medical news items from three years ago may not be one hundred percent accurate). In the end the scare was revealed to be disproportionate to the … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Little Children (2006) — There is a definite subgenre of drama dedicated to people who are desperately unhappy in suburbia. Understandable enough. Little Children was on the Sundance Channel and since I caught it from the beginning I opted to watch the whole thing. Kate Winslet plays Sarah, an unhappy housewife. Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Angels … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Rachel Getting Married (2008) — “Above average” are the words to describe this movie. “Good” doesn’t quite seem to cover it but “very good” is going too far. The main things that elevate the movie are the smart and unconventional script by Jenny Lumet (Sid’s daughter) and the tour de force performance by Anne Hathaway … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
So I figured if I’m going to blogging about television, I should probably weigh in on the Emmys. I realized this though as the Emmys were already in progress and I had been drinking (I started to sober up somewhere around the Drama categories). These are my meandering real-time thoughts as I watched the broadcast. … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 