Shut Up and Sing

I saw this at the charming Presidio Theater—what a cute and tiny little theater it is. Each screening room is like a private home theater.
I think it’s hilariously fantastic that Natalie Maines calls the President something far worse (and much more profane) on film than the relatively mild and kind of uninteresting remark she made [...]

Stranger Than Fiction

I told my brother that Will Ferrell’s role in Stranger Than Fiction reminded me of Adam Sandler’s in Punch-Drunk Love—both represented an opportunity for a well-known comic actor to take on a more serious character, different than the types people know and enjoy them for.
Maggie Gyllenhaal makes excessively tattooed biceps look quite becoming on a [...]

Volver

I cultivated a fondness for foreign films and subtitles (they combine two loves in one activity—reading and cinema!) in college. Most weekdays there was one playing in the basement of the international dorm, and not having a tv, I was happy to make the trip down there.
It doesn’t feel like an Almodóvar film without [...]

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

I remember wanting to see this in theaters, and asking a couple people to join me, but missing it back then (summer of 2004). It turns out there are a few benefits to viewing it later on DVD.
1) “The Art of the Fart”
2) Coming across this film review, published about two years after it came [...]

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