Posts Tagged ‘Homeland’
Film Review – Deadpool
How does one come to trust the opinion of Ryan Reynolds‘ labor of foul-mouthed love, Deadpool, from a reviewer (strong, I know) who not only knows nothing of the character’s origins but is genuinely befuddled by the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole? Especially one…
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Film Review – A Fuller Life
Not everybody lives a life with so much activity that it could make an epic story. From crime-beat reporter to World War II soldier to novelist and filmmaker, the aptly titled A Fuller Life tells the epic story of Samuel Fuller, reporter, writer, producer and…
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Film Review – Bad Words
Thanks in large part to Arrested Development‘s absurdly rabid fanbase and cultural status, Jason Bateman has experienced a career resurgence that would make Travolta blush (and presumably mispronounce.) He’s spent the past decade in a wide range of roles, most of which require him to…
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Film Review – The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Among the many noteworthy filmmakers to rise out of the late ’80s/early ’90s, one of the more underappreciated is Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding). While she never achieved the fame of some of her contemporaries like Quentin Tarantino or Richard Linklater, she has consistently…
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What We’re Watching – 2/8/2012
Awkward. Near the end of 2011 I started perusing top ten lists to see if there was anything that I hadn’t heard of that might be interesting. On a TV list I had I saw Awkward., a show about a young teenage girl named Jenna…
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What We’re Watching – 1/11/2012
Television has been taking up much of my time, as I am still playing catch up with several shows, so these are the newest shows I have been trying out.
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