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Category Archives: movie reviews
Star Trek: Disappointing but not unwatchable
My review of Star Trek: Into Darkness is up at City Paper. Click the link for the full (still very short) review, but in short it just isn’t that great (but still fun and worth seeing). Into Darkness relies too … Continue reading
Posted in movie reviews, pop culture
Tagged Benedict Cumberbatch, Matt Yglesias, Star Trek
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Renoir < Spring Breakers
My review of Renoir, from the latest edition of the City Paper. I wouldn’t advise you see it in the theaters. Save your dollars for a second viewing of Spring Breakers. At its best, Renoir captures that wonderfully inviting feeling … Continue reading
Save the Date: Not even Lizzy Caplan can save it
A few months ago I was assigned to review Save the Date for the Philadelphia City Paper. I got my review copy, watched it, wrote the tiny little article and…Save the Date never opened in Philadelphia. So no article. City … Continue reading
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Tagged City Paper, Lizzy Caplan. Alison Brie, Save the Date
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Killing Them Softly Makes Criminality Look Awful
My review of Killing Them Softly, a movie I don’t necessarily recommend you see because its so grim), can be found here. A significant portion of the review got clipped, including all of the below. (Also, read the book it … Continue reading
Movies: Skyfall and Cloud Atlas
My reviews over at Broad Street Review. You should definitely watch Skyfall (unless you don’t like James Bond movies). I can’t exactly recommend Cloud Atlas, but I enjoyed watching it. I’m sure the book is better and can’t wait to … Continue reading
How’s your drinking?
I’ve always liked reading about drinking. Many of my favorite novelists–Kingsley Amis, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh–wring a great deal of comedy, and occasionally tragedy, out of humanity’s relations with the bottle. (I haven’t read as much about the grimmer side … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, movie reviews, pop culture, public health
Tagged booze, Days of Wine and Roses, drinking, Smashed, Withnail & I
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