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Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink, 2010)
March 11, 2010 – 2:53 pm | One Comment
<em>Hot Tub Time Machine</em> (Pink, 2010)

A few years ago I wrote in a review that in an age of fatwahs and culture wars, I was reluctant to the point of refusal to use the word “immoral” when describing a film. …

Offside (Panahi, 2006)
March 2, 2010 – 12:32 pm | 2 Comments
<em>Offside</em> (Panahi, 2006)

In soccer (or football, as the non-American world stubbornly persists in calling it), there is a rule that states that an offensive player must have at least one defensive player between him and the goal …

Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)
February 27, 2010 – 7:47 pm | No Comment
<em>Gun Crazy</em> (Lewis, 1950)

Context is–well, not everything–but it is important.
If I had watched Gun Crazy (a.k.a. Deadly is the Female) a year ago…well, okay, I would not have watched it a year ago, but if I had, I …

1More Podcast — February 2010
February 20, 2010 – 4:12 pm | No Comment
1More Podcast — February 2010

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1More Podcast Episode 2 (February 2010)
Katherine Richards and Elizabeth Rambo join me in this episode to discuss Tom Ford’s A Single Man, John Sayles’s Lianna, …

Homemade Hillbilly Jam (Minnich, 2005)
February 16, 2010 – 9:37 am | No Comment
<em>Homemade Hillbilly Jam</em> (Minnich, 2005)

I’m not sure if I am the first or only person to approach Homemade Hillbilly Jam as an auteur piece, but given the success of Rick Minnich’s later film, Forgetting Dad, I don’t think I’ll …

A Single Man (Ford, 2009)
February 7, 2010 – 1:59 pm | No Comment
<em>A Single Man</em> (Ford, 2009)

A Single Man is an earnest story about a gay man genuinely in love with his partner and devastated by his death. It is based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood that was written …