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I can't quite shake the feeling that the world view that permeates this film genre is that life is an inherently miserable, humiliating experience...that the only joy in it is the supremacy and uniqueness of your particular misery. It's like a proud despair, almost as if the heroic stoicism of the modernists has crumbled and shown beneath it a sickly, pallid, postmodern gilded stoicism that doesn't fool anyone, least of all the people wearing it.

Disclosure--AS, Reviews

March 11, 2011

Battle Los Angeles (Liebesman, 2011)

The title credits of Battle Los Angeles, which I always thought were the ultimate authority in such matters, does not have the colon.

Disclosure--DVDS, Reviews

March 9, 2011

The Desert of Forbidden Art (Pope and Georgiev, 2011)

The directors of The Desert of Forbidden Art, Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev, state that they are drawn to "stories about stubborn, unsung people with vision who challenge the boundaries of their times."

Disclosure--AS, Reviews

March 4, 2011

The Adjustment Bureau (Nolfi, 2011)

The biggest flaw of The Adjustment Bureau may be that its negatives are so easily articulable.

10 Years Later, Reviews

February 27, 2011

A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001)

Do I think this was the best film of 2001? No. Neither though can I muster too much outrage at its victory. If the film were venerated today more than I think it is, my objections might be louder and more persistent. Absent inflated claims that I don't really hear coming from any quarter, I am content to let it stand as a well done commercially polished biopic with some top notch acting and an earnestness that while not winning me over does not really grate.

Emergenetics, Podcasts

February 19, 2011

Emergenetics and The Social Network — 1More Podcast Episode 11

Certified Emergenetics trainer Erik Kieser joins Cindy and Ken on the podcast to discuss The Social Network and how films can illustrate the behavioral and thinking preferences in Emergenetics profiles.

Disclosure--DVDS, Reviews

February 13, 2011

Candyman: The David Klein Story (Botes, 2010)

Klein came up for the idea of Jelly Belly, the gourmet jelly bean that comes in a myriad of different flavors, and, as related in the documentary Candyman, he ended up selling his stake in the company for a tidy profit that turned out to be a small percentage of its eventual worth.

10 Years Later, Reviews

February 5, 2011

Swordfish (Sena, 2001)

I did not ultimately select Dominca Sena's film as my least favorite viewing experience of the year--more on the film that got that designation later in this series--but both in revisiting the film and my review of it, I wonder that I did not.

10 Years Later, Reviews

January 29, 2011

Monsters, Inc. (Docter, Silverman, Unkrich, 2001)

You know the biggest shock about revisiting Monsters, Inc. ten years later? It was the "Coming Soon" preview for Disney's Treasure Planet.

Disclosure--AS

January 21, 2011

No Strings Attached (Reitman, 2011)

I don't feel too grinch-like in saying I didn't believe the film since the film doesn't really believe itself.