It’s about what you’d expect for a WWII film from Tarantino: Lots of talking, sporadic but graphic violence, long cutaways that don’t really need to be there, total disregard for anything resembling historical accuracy, close-ups of women’s feet, and plenty of style. It’s a revisionist-history revenge fantasy that’s quite a bit longer than it needs [...]
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Oscar bait films part the first: Inglourious Basterds
Posted in Awards Shows, DVD, Movies, tagged B.J. Novak, Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt's horrible mustache, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds, Life is Beautiful, Melanie Laurent, Natural Born Killers, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino's foot fetish, True Romance on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
And we’re back!
Posted in DVD, Movies, TV, tagged Confessions of a Shopaholic, documentaries, Recipes for Disaster, Sports Night, the flu? it sucks on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here. I was sick for most of January and am only starting to feel normal again. Now is the time of year when I’d be rushing around trying to see all of the Oscar-nominated films I hadn’t gotten around to yet, but this year I [...]
DVD Review: Not Just the Best of The Larry Sanders Show
Posted in DVD, TV, tagged Jon Stewart on November 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This collection has obviously been out for a while, but only recently have I had the chance to watch pretty much all of it. Cheers, M*A*S*H*, whatever – there are lots of candidates for Best Sitcom Ever, but there’s a strong argument to be made that The Larry Sanders Show tops them all. Although it wasn’t [...]
