Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks, 1953 His Kind of Woman, John Farrow, 1951 With Robert Mitchum in Macao, Josef von Sternberg, 1952 Joe was really something. He told me, "We…
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You can't blame a guy for trying. Or can you? (Also, yeah, I know what you're thinking: I mentally replay the opening of The Fall's "Slang King" every time I…
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Good morning. This evening's Oscar activities will include me abandoning my ExtAngel persona on Twitter —but not, necessarily, his honey-badgeresque undeniably poor attitude—and "live-tweeting" the Oscars from the more professional-seeming…
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Hall Pass, a film that compelled Mr. Jeffrey Wells to proclaim, apropos its male lead characters, "I'm cooler and smarter than those assholes any day of the week" (no, he…
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Such was the question that I was determined to finally answer when I got the recent Blu-ray disc release of Bertolucci's still-argument-provoking 1972 film, in which the future director of…
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A year after its theatrical release, some spoken thoughts on the underrated Shutter Island, with my friend Gareth Higgins, at the excellent podcast The Film Talk. Go for a listen…
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