Last night, while re-embedding the video on my post Favorite Movies: All That Jazz, I found myself obliged to revise and substantially expand the original text. To back up a step: yes, I did say “re-embedding the video.” As a … Continue reading
With the possible exception of certain horror genres, “cringe” is not a word that most people hope to see in a recommendation. Common connotations, however, often don’t tell the whole story. Consider the case of Rachel Getting Married, a movie that made me cringe for all the right reasons. And with the right frequency – I didn’t cringe throughout, and the occasional cringes were hardly my only physical reaction to the film. They were good ones, though, and without them I wouldn’t have made it to the fond grins and I found later. I cringe because I care. [...Read on...] Continue reading
This is probably going to make me sound like a huge fogey, but the hell with it: this movie would have better if it had been made 20 years ago. Continue reading
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