The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Jackson, 2012)
Parts are camp comedy, parts CGI sword slashing, parts solemn intonations about fate and when not to kill.
Category: Disclosure–AS
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The Central Park Five (Burns, Burns, and McMahon)
The most depressing thing about The Central Park Five, for me, was its only hazy familiarity.
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Macky Alston Interview
“God’s Mandate is to Love One Another”
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Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines (Guevara-Flanagan, 2012)
Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines is a serviceable if somewhat superficial summary of the American feminist movement as reflected through the representation of female heroes in comic books, television, and film.
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Leviathan (Castaing-Taylor and Paravel, 2012)
Leviathan is not a narrative film.
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La Source (Shen, 2012)
Everyone thinks they would be more generous if they had just a little more.
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The Law in These Parts (Alexandrowicz 2011)
What is the difference been "occupied" and "held" territories?
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The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)
As I've acknowledged elsewhere, the Batman of this series of films is not the same character/hero I grew up with, and that complicates my reactions, making it harder (though, I hope, not impossible) to separate my disappointment from my judgment. That's not all of it, though, or I should have liked Rises more than The Dark Knight, and I'm not sure I did (even if I did judge it a better film).
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Brave (Chapman, Andrews, and Purcell 2012)
Payoff there is, but I found my own emotions at the conclusion somewhat muted by the fact that--and there's just no easy way to put this--I preferred the pre-chastened heroine to the one who had learned her lesson at the end.