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I remember seeing this on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (my favorite show for a while). I saw so much I broke my mind. And then, many years later...
I remember seeing this on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (my favorite show for a while). I saw so much I broke my mind. And then, many years later...
"If the career of Christopher Nolan is any indication, we've entered an era in which movies can no longer be great. They can only be awesome, which isn't nearly the same thing." -- Stephanie Zacharek on "Inception" Well, people certainly…
Normally I don't like to watch trailers because they have come to consist of all the high points of the movie condensed into a big spoiler package. I don't recommend watching them for anything you might want to have the…
The movie's muse explains it all for you! Very good! (tip: Vulture, Michael Phillips)
Boy, was I misinformed. I'd gotten the impression that Christopher Nolan's "Inception" was about dream states, but what this movie's facilely conceived CGI environments have to do with dreaming, as human beings experience dreams, I don't know. For what it's…
Knowing that the summer would bring new releases by two of today's most "controversial" (as Entertainment Weekly might put it) auteurs -- M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan (one with a critical reputation on a downward slide, the other on…
You know what I liked about the olden days when movie reviews were really and truly embargoed until opening day? First, I miss the civility of the arrangement: OK, studios, you're going to show us the movie when it's done…
And the kid who shot this shows an instinctive understanding of the zoom lens superior to the self-conscious artiness of the Duplass brothers.
For some reason I have the notion that the guy with the camera, getting the low-angle shots of Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley) against that American flag that stretches across the Parthenon from sea to shining sea, is the cinematographer Paul…
It has come to my attention that the ol' spam filter has been a little hyperactive recently. I just went back over a couple hundred spam comments and released about a dozen legit ones from the Limbo of Spamitude. In…
