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Marvel v. DC: Iron Man 2 v. The Losers
Somewhere in the comic universe, there is a Mason-Dixon Line (a Stark-Wayne Line?) that separates Marvel from DC. Fierce battles take place across that line. As you may guess, dear ...
Do Good Guys Throw Stones? (A Rumination on The Stoning of Soraya M.)
Some films are muddy. They give us good guys who are kinda bad or bad guys who are kinda good. They obscure the conflict. They make us guess. They confuse ...
Date Night: El Secreto de Sus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes)
“I remember so many beginnings, but I don’t know which one goes with this story.” – Benjamin Esposito, El secreto de sus ojos Unlike the lead character in the film ...
The Ivan Drago School of Writing
I was gonna write this amazing Date Night-style recap of my experience with El secreto de sus ojos. It was gonna weave together the story of a bet I lost ...
Date Night: Chloe
The Liberian Girl got a day off work this weekend and she wanted to go to the movies. I suggested a Korean film or an Irish film or a bottle ...
A Lesson from Michael Clayton on Stereotypes
Picture me rollin’. Slowly. Through mid-day traffic on a Wednesday. Along U Street in NW Washington, DC. The sun is shining. The windows of my Grand Prix are cracked generously ...
Date Night: Alice in Wonderland
Every good date night should end with a “date morning.” If the person you’re dating works nights at a bar (like the Liberian Girl does) then the morning could also ...
There’s No Poetry in Being Comfortable: A Poem for Henry Charles Bukowski, Junior (Hank)
Back in 2004 they released a movie about Hank another one in this one Hank Bono Tom Waits Taylor Hackford John Martin Hank’s baby mother (the woman with the white ...
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: The Revolution Will Not Be … Monetized?
[Editor's note: Michael Moore's latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, comes out on DVD today. Tim Adkins wrote a great essay/review about it a while back and we figured today ...
Date Night: Avatar
[Editor's Note: Please welcome Tim Adkins to the Gladiator Movies team. You will hopefully be seeing more from him around these parts going forward and can catch more of his ...
