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1More Podcast — January 2010
January 14, 2010 – 4:52 pm | One Comment
1More Podcast — January 2010

Elizabeth Rambo and Peter Waldron join me to discuss Top 10 Lists (for the year and decade).
Click on the link below to listen to or download the Podcast. (It’s in .mp3 format.)
1More Podcast Episode 1 …

2009 Favorite Discoveries
January 1, 2010 – 7:49 pm | No Comment
2009 Favorite Discoveries

The average person, even if he or she is an avid cinephile, really sees a very small percentage of the films released every year. Add to that fact that more and more viewing is done …

2009 Top 10
December 29, 2009 – 11:00 pm | 2 Comments
2009 Top 10

When I think back on 2010, the phrase that comes to mind is “top heavy.”

Trumbo (Askin, 2007)
November 3, 2009 – 9:52 pm | No Comment
<em>Trumbo</em> (Askin, 2007)

I somehow managed to miss Peter Askin’s documentary, Trumbo, when it played at The Toronto International Film Festival and then again at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Having not heard strong buzz at either …

Best Last Films
August 4, 2009 – 9:49 pm | No Comment
Best Last Films

Perhaps no archetype is more prevalently insidious in Western art and criticism than that of the diminishing star–the poet, artist, athlete, or performer who dazzles us and youth but gradually becomes a shadow of his …

Forgiving Dr. Mengele (Hercules, 2006)
July 26, 2009 – 3:17 pm | No Comment
<em>Forgiving Dr. Mengele</em> (Hercules, 2006)

I approached writing a review of this film with some trepidation. The act of reviewing carries with it a strain of judgment, and when reviewing a documentary it is hard not to feel as …