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How Streaming Movies are Allowing Pseudo-Intellectuals to Pretend they’re Cultured

Sep

29

2013

Here’s an annoying thing that’s happened to me a few times recently: I’ll be talking to some guy, some L.A. hipster with glasses and bad genes, and the subject of movies will come up. At this point, this guy will bring up an older, seemingly off-the-radar, movie and tell me that I have to see ...

Is This The End?

Jul

23

2013

Meaning, I don’t see how much further it can go. This is the End has some good laughs, but it isn’t entertaining enough to overcome the stunningly audacious middle finger it is giving to its audience. For those of you who don’t know, the movie is set mostly in James Franco’s house during an impending apocalypse ...

American Films are Mostly ‘Tweens’ Now

Jul

2

2013

I watched World War Z yesterday. With the countless hours of thought and production that go into a film like this, I just don’t see how parts of it can miss the mark of plausibility so badly. This is what has become of mainstream American cinema. The films look great, the concepts are great, the ...

My Worst Call Ever Part I 1

May

30

2013

A year after moving away from my hometown to attend college I found myself in Seattle for the summer and in need of a job. At this period in my life I was under the impression that matching means your outfit is all the same color. So I would go out looking for a job in ...

I’m Not Watching Citizen Kane Again. 4

May

29

2013

Citizen Kane is often referred to as being the “Greatest Movie of All Time.” Shakespeare is often referred to as the “Greatest Writer of All Time.” As someone who has seen Citizen Kane and read a lot of Shakespeare, I have one thing to say to this: No. Usually, the rationale given for these works ...

Hipsters Have Ruined American Films

Apr

23

2013

Rarely do I see a movie so bad that it inspires me to do anything but walk out of it. But last night I saw The Place Beyond the Pines and was so mesmerized at how terrible it is that I actually had to sit all the way through it. I don’t have time to review ...