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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
When I saw Hot Fuzz back in 2007, with a couple of compadres, it was like quaffing a cinematic yagerbomb; all I wanted to do afterward was cut loose, do a few keg-stands, and then chittychat my way into some soon-to-be-regretted-but-blissful stupor. What I’m saying, I suppose, is that Edgar Wright’s film put me in [...]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
The Kids Are All Right
If I didn’t know who my father was—and it turned out to be Mark Ruffalo—I’d be positively psyched. And so are the beneficiaries of this fate, if only for awhile, in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right. On her 18th birthday, at her 15-year-old brother’s insistence, Joni (Mia Wasikowska) calls the sperm bank they [...]