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Best of 2011 on The Movie Gourmet’s new site
My Best Movies of 2011 is up on my new blog at The Movie Gourmet.com. So is Your Holiday Movie Guide and comments on all the latest films. Plus all of my year-end lists like Biggest Disappointments, Breakthroughs, Best Time … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: Kaboom
And now for some sexy silliness. Director Gregg Araki created the brilliant and searing Mysterious Skin, but here he’s just having fun. In the first hour of Kaboom, I lost track of how many characters had sex with each other … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, Gregg Araki, Kaboom, movie recommendations, Movies
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DVD of the Week: Kings of Pastry
This documentary chronicles the physically grueling and emotionally draining three-day competition for the MOF, the highest designation for French pastry chefs. Amid impossibly towering sugar sculptures and delectable cream puffs and layer cakes, we see the essential cores of competition … Continue reading
The Movie Gourmet is moving
My new blog is at The Movie Gourmet.com. It looks just the same and still uses the WordPress platform, but will have more features. I just needed a new address. So bookmark the new site and please subscribe! The Movie … Continue reading
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13 Assassins: a cut above
Director Takeshi Miike’s take on the samurai movie is the best contribution to the genre since Kurosawa. Brilliantly staged and photographed, this is one of the best recent action films in any language or setting. It’s a familiar set-up: an … Continue reading
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Tagged 13 Assassins, Japanese movie, Kôji Yakusho, movie recommendation, Movies, samurai, samurai movie, Takeshi Miike
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Bridesmaids: funny, but incomplete
Bridesmaids is a funny movie, but one that could have been much better. In a role that she wrote for herself, Kristen Wiig plays a woman whose insecurities keep her from seeing the good and the possible in her life. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridesmaids, Chris O'Dowd, comedy, Judd Apatow, Kristen Wiig, Movies, romantic comedy
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Movies to See Right Now
The searing drama Incendies is the year’s best film so far. Upon their mother’s death, a young man and woman learn for the first time of their father and their brother and journey from Quebec to the Middle East to … Continue reading
Incendies: best movie of the year so far
This searing drama is the year’s best film so far. Upon their mother’s death, a young man and woman learn for the first time of their father and their brother and journey from Quebec to the Middle East to uncover … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Awards, Denis Villaneuve, Incendies, Lubna Azabal, Movies, Oscar
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Meek’s Cutoff: when men don’t ask for directions
Meek’s Cutoff is an unfortunate misfire by the excellent director Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy). The masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock has already been made. We didn’t need an indifferent covered wagon version. The route of the Oregon … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: Diabolique
The headmaster of a provincial boarding school is so cruel, even sadistic, that everyone wants him dead, especially his wife and his mistress. When he goes missing, the police drain the murky pool where the killers dumped the body, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Criterion, Diabolique, French, Henri-Georges Clouzot, movie recommendations, Movies, suspense, thriller
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