Category Archives: Movie Review
TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Day 7
Black Swan Review: If you feel like Darren Aronofsky may be softening, with the great but relatively straightforward The Wrestler and the news that he’s directing Wolverine 2, that’s just because you haven’t seen Black Swan, his batty new film … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Day 6
Fair Game: Review: On Friday, Wikileaks released thousands and thousands of documents showing the Iraq War to be even more violent and poorly managed than we thought. Even as our presence there is decreasing (but still FAR from 0), it … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Days 2-4
Blue Valentine Derek Cianfrance’s emotionally apocalyptic depiction of a crumbling marriage seems built to capture the arthouse zeitgeist. Combining two incredibly reliable actors (Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling) and borrowing from a number of different touchstones (500 Days’ of Summer‘s … Continue reading
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Austin Film Festival: Day 1
Paradise Recovered Review: Esther, the devout believer trapped in a restrictive fundamentalist sect, has never seen a movie, listened to a rock and roll song, or eaten pork, all to please God. She has been promised to marry a man … Continue reading
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12 Thoughts About Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World And Related Issues
Edgar Wright, already an accomplished visual storyteller, steps it up several notches for Scott Pilgrim vs. the Word. From the 8-bit Universal logo, it is clear that Wright is aiming for the moon here. While most of the attention should … Continue reading
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Review: Toy Story 3
I was 8 years old when my parents took me to see Toy Story in a tiny theater in suburban Atlanta and it completely blew my mind. Since then, I’ve pretty much grown up with Pixar. When I was younger, … Continue reading
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Movie Review – Kick-Ass
I’m not sure at what point in the superhero movie craze we’ve reached, but “Kick-Ass” at least indicates that its started to eat itself. Based on Mark Millar’s comic book (from the second phase of his career, known as “chasing … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine
Time travel is hot again within science fiction circles, most notably with last year’s mindbending season of a certain show we already write about too much around here (although I think its 2000s renaissance can all be traced back to … Continue reading
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SXSW: Monday Recap (But Really Mainly MacGruber)
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SXSW Film Reviews – March 12-14
4 really, really good movies Continue reading
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