Archive for March, 2008

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Time to Turn the Page: A Reaction to “Diablo Cody Backlash in Full Swing”

I’m glad people are finally hip to the program—Juno’s Academy Award-winning “legitimacy” only further drags scriptwriter Diablo Cody’s reputation into the brackish puddle of square mud. (I won’t say that I said it first, Slate and Gawker, even though I pretty much did.) Attacking Cody, as the Gawker article, “Diablo Cody Backlash in Full Swing,” […]

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Monday, March 3rd, 2008

No Country for Old Men

[Now that No Country for Old Men is last year’s Best Picture, I felt I should post the review I wrote way back in pre-Oscar times. Warning, there’s a spoiler.]
Until the end credits, there isn’t one bar of music in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. In fact, the bulk of the first […]

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