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Bonafide Hustler

I loved Freaks and Geeks and, as such, am a sucker for James Franco, despite his Spider-errors, and Seth Rogen, despite the questionable philosophy of Knocked Up. So, team those two back up and throw Paper Planes (heh, get it?) by MIA, a song stuck in my consciousness for the last half year, into the [...]

The Only One Who Can See

I was intrigued to see the title Blindness in the list of Apple movie trailers. I had an optimistic guess as to the literary source for the film and click through to the trailer confirmed my hope. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago. In this [...]

Typographically Wired

At some point yesterday, during the Super Bowl, the new Victoria’s Secret ad aired. My response was immediate: “Hey, those text screens look a lot like Law & Order!”
I drew laughter and mockery for not focusing on the more typically recognized, but no more valid, aesthetic qualities of the advertisement (I’m talking about the half-naked [...]

Spike Jonze = Badass

So, when you’re responsible for Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” music video and the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” and Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” and, AND, Being John Malkovich, you already have my utmost respect. And then, when you get involved with a video like this:

I just have to stand and give my due. Cheers, Spike. You rule.
Oh, [...]

You’re, like, the coolest movie I’ve ever seen

Roger Ebert ranked Juno as the best film of 2007, beating out No Country for Old Men on the strength of the former’s emotional evocation. I am happy to say that I agree.
In other news, and briefly, I am in Massachusetts, having arrived yesterday morning. The thick layers of snow are melting away in today’s [...]

Films of 2007 and Brief Thoughts on Juno

Much as I presented the NY Times list of top books from 2007, here is the Onion AV Club’s Year in Film 2007. I am only somewhat sad to say that I have seen one film of their top ten: No Country for Old Men. Of those remaining, the films most appealing to me are [...]

5 Bad Songs I Just Have to Love

I will go years and years, decades even, without having thought of a song and then suddenly it will pop back into my head. This song will be a bad song, something outside the realm of any reasonable musical taste, and often from the 80s or early 90s. I will listen to it once, and [...]