December 2009
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Two Weeks (Fred Falke Mix), Grizzly Bear
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Legends and Shit
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik
Hyper-stylized and lovingly-lacquered film about, well, the assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, how’d you guess. Heaps and heaps of meticulous attention was paid to this movie, and it shows; every frame oozes a sort of powdered-and-turned grace, and every shot feels like velvet and...
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M
M (1931), dir. Fritz Lang
Stark and cunning. Visually stunning (Think enormous, cavernous German cities painted in great swaths of black and white. ABANDONED LUFTBALLONS AGAINST THE PYLONS.). Creeping, swirling and eerie; drama of the last segment is straight up Kabuki theatre. Fuck time, this is fountain of youth ageless.
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Aruba, Jamaica, Ooh I wanna take ya
Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane. Tragic U.S. Marshalls visit a maximum security prison/mental ward on a desolate, isolated island off the East Coast. A hurricane blows in. What could possibly go wrong? Also known as: You so crazy.
All in all, utterly terrifying and disorienting. Stayed up until 6:30 am in a state of frothing, paralyzing fear finishing this book; after falling asleep, had paralyzing...
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Ribbons, Mariah Carey, Memoirs of an Imperfect...
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Platonic Ideal for all Movie Reviews →
I wanna be on the 2012 thrill park ride, playing 2012 on my Nintendo DS, eating the 2012-branded chocotaco and watching this movie at the same time because I am greedy for this brand of INCREDIBLEBANANASINCREDIBLE.
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Cherchez La Femme
Nikita (1990), dir. Luc Besson
Derivative and obvious and glossy to the point of being practically shellacked stiff, but still super-sexy and super-stylish and super-winning. The over-stylized*, eye-roll-worthy dialogue even adds to charm! Consider it the jolie-laide of action films. Also, just to add to the intellectual discourse so far: GODDAM ANNE PARILLAUD GET DOWN WITH YOUR HOT-BODIED...
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We are Your Kids, MGMT vs Justice vs Simian*,...
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Axes.
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn. Grisly massacre, lonely Kansas, lone survivor: go.
What initially starts off as a spare, prickly thriller explodes into a full-on purple American Gothic as Flynn throws in everything but the kitchen sink (shotguns! axes! desperate, pawing teenage sex! strippers! drugs! Satanism!). Intricacy and cunning loop-de-loop plotting are always treasured in any good...
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Pomo Popo
White Noise, Don DeLillo. Very, very smart. Written in a quick, articulate, almost-nebbish, and deceptively simple voice- prose with the crusts cut off - to offset what could have been a lot of heavy-handed philosophizing. Instead, with all the elements hammered together, becomes a conversation with a much smarter, much more precocious friend. Is very cerebral - difficult to pinpoint any gushing...