Eat Pray Love (Murphy, 2010)
I was able to accept this not as a blueprint for how to live my life but as one woman's story about how she chose to try to live hers and things that she learned while doing it.
Author: kenmorefield
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1More Podcast — Episode 6
Kenneth R. Morefield, Peter Waldron, and Cynthia L Morefield podcast about critical backlash.
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Blakeson, 2009)
The Disappearance of Alice Creed has all the ingredients of a horror-porn exploitation film, but its genius lies in withholding enough information from us that while we think we know what we are watching, we aren't entirely sure.
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The Other Guys (McKay, 2010)
Here's the most important thing you need to know about The Other Guys: it is funny.
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a brutal film. That in and of itself doesn't make it a bad film, though I admit that I have a predisposition towards impatience with and skepticism towards films that use extended brutality to announce or stake claims for moral seriousness.
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Predators (Antal, 2010)
Looking for, or discussing, plot holes is a fool's errand that only serves to make one look either snobbish or effete.
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1More Podcast–Episode 5
Kenneth R. Morefield and Peter Waldron podcast about Pixar films.
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CFP: Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II
A call for papers (CFP) for Volume II of Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II.
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Eyes Wide Open (Tabakman, 2009)
The film also invites comparison to Sandi Simcha Dubowski's Trembling Before G-d, a documentary chronicling the attempts of Orthodox and Hasidic gays and lesbians to articulate the degree to which their religious community's rejection of their sexual orientation effects them.
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Robin Hood (Scott, 2010)
My dominant impression, walking out of Ridley Scott's Gladiator Tw...er Robin Hood, was that it is nice to see Scott Grimes (closer to Party of Five mode than E.R. mode) getting work. My second thought was that Mark Strong could make a career out of playing pre-20th Century villains.