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Red State: Silent Bob Speaks and Castigates Everything
In Red State, director Kevin Smith deviates from the canon of familiar characters and actors that made previous films like Mallrats, Clerks, and Chasing Amy cult successes. Here, he ...
Cotto’s Best of 2010
The first word out of my mouth after seeing a “great” movie is more often than not, an expletive. Followed by an exhale. I would’ve have thought with “The Social ...
The Town: Ben Affleck Walks the Well Worn Path (Very Well)
Once upon a time, an English professor explained to me–and the rest of her class–the seven basic plots in literature. In addition to providing a working context for writers, she ...
The Book of Eli — Thank God I’m an Agnostic
The power of disasters and the potential of an apocalypse fascinate movie goers, usually during times of strife or near the end of a decade. In the eighties, forty-six movies ...
reboot (v): 1. to start a system again after a crash 2. to kick shit again, hoping this time it doesn’t stick to your shoe
As if the unoriginality of Hollywood needed further attesting to, they have decided to reboot the Spiderman franchise as well as—wait for it—Daredevil. Yes. Daredevil. For those of you who ...
An Ode to Reboots
As if the unoriginality of Hollywood needed further attesting to, they have decided to reboot theSpiderman franchise as well as—wait for it—Daredevil. Yes. Daredevil. For those of you who can’t, or choose ...
State of Play – Good Movie, Horrible Title
There were a few problems with this for sure, but I enjoyed it. For full disclosure’s sake, I am certainly a little more interested in the newspaper industry than the ...
