Jun 19 2010
Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 6/12/10, 9:45
I am hard on the Summer months when maybe I shouldn’t be. Yes, it is the worst part of the year cinematically, with the possible exception of Spring. The saving grace of the March-to-May period is that the tiny independents that premiered during the Winter in [...]
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Tags: (500) Days of Summer, Alamo South Lamar, Amanda Peet, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Annie Hall, Away We Go, Catherine Keener, Cyrus, District 9, Javier Bardem, Julie & Julia, Kirsten Dunst, Knight and Day, Land of the Lost, Manhattan, Meryl Streep, Nicole Holofcener, Oliver Platt, Please Give, Prince of Persia, Rebecca Hall, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Steele, The Girlfriend Experience, Transformers 2, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Whatever Works, Woody Allen, Year One
Jan 04 2010
Dir. Jason Reitman
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 12/31/09, 1:40pm
You know its Oscar season when you go to see a movie because it got a lot of buzz at Toronto. Well this George Clooney vehicle is being talked about probably much more than it is being seen, so I braved the cold Texas air to ride [...]
Filed In: Reviews
Tags: Anna Kendrick, Arrested Development, Away We Go, Danny McBride, Elliott Smith, Extract, George Clooney, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, J.K. Simmons, Jason Bateman, Jason Reitman, Melanie Lynskey, Office Space, Oscars, The Informant!, The Royal Tenenbaums, Toronto, Up in the Air, Vera Farmiga, Zack Galifianakis
Dec 23 2009
I have been thinking about writing a blog post on the cinema year in review. I’d take about the general trends that the year brought, the highs, lows, surprises and upsets of the year. That kind of thing.
As part of that project, I have been thinking about consistent themes of the [...]
Filed In: Lists
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 2009, A Christmas Carol, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Antichrist, Away We Go, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Funny People, Halloween II, Julie & Julia, Moon, My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Past, Sell Hard, Survival of the Dead, The Goods: Live Hard, The Haunting in Connecticut, The Lovely Bones, Up, Watchmen
