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Punitive Superego: November 2009

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Sunday, November 29, 2009. A Belated Defense of Funny People. I saw Judd Apatow's Funny People. A film that has always made me ideologically queasy. In spite of the fact that it's undeniably funny. More than anything, the film reminded me of James L. Brooks' seminal, mid 80's workplace comedy Broadcast News. Which deftly balanced mortifying, awkward social comedy with all too prescient assaults on the changing face of the media and an understated love triangle. If Funny People. Sadly, Funny People. Doesn...

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Punitive Superego: The Runaways

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Saturday, March 20, 2010. I guess I'll be the one to ask the question: why The Runaways? Geeze, I just don't see it. And it's not hard to imagine the producers of The Runaways. Thinking the same thing as they lined up a murderer's row of barely and not-at-all legal starlets to appear in the film. Fanning, a spookily-self aware performer from an unfathomably young age, made headlines a few years back after appearing in Hounddog. I was reminded of another, better musical biopic, 2007's Control. Which does ...

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Punitive Superego: October 2008

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008. What I've Seen October 2008. These represent some of the more stream of conscious writing I’ve done but they certainly get the point across whether I fall on the “yay” or “nay” side of a film. This may be a rolling entry where I continue to add new titles or it may be the latest in a long-line of “one-off’s.” Either way, enjoy. 2008 Clint Eastwood C. Actually the word “simple” seems the most apt adjective to employ here. Cheers for the wronged woman! Synecdoche, New York. Or is...

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Punitive Superego: Have You Overrated this Movie?

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Sunday, June 3, 2007. Have You Overrated this Movie? Being first out on a limb with your opinions is a really quick way to look prophetic (as was the case with Zodiac. Where my early and widely quoted praise of a rough-cut. Set the tone for the film’s rapturous following on the net) or irrelevant (I walked out of a Little Miss Sunshine. Screening at Sundance convinced the film would crash and burn with audiences and be seen as another Happy Texas. Take the case of Knocked Up. Written and directed by Judd...

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Punitive Superego: Playing Cops and Robbers: Ben Affleck's The Town

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Saturday, December 4, 2010. Playing Cops and Robbers: Ben Affleck's The Town. Note: This article addresses specific plot points in the film, The Town. I first saw The Town. Is King's third "crime picture" in four years set in Boston following The Departed. And Edge of Darkness. And directing his younger brother Casey to some of the best reviews of his career in Gone Baby Gone. As far as I was concerned, The Town. Was a reminder of how little Affleck the romantic leading man was missed. Slightly longer th...

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Punitive Superego: January 2010

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Monday, January 11, 2010. The Best of 2009. Nowhere was this more evident than in Jason Reitman's Up in the Air. Which featured George Clooney as a corporate axe-man, criss-crossing the country, firing people while offering a pithy pat on the back to those going home to families that depend upon them. Of course the economic crisis had a funny way of rearing its head in the most unexpected of places. Sam Raimi's low-tech, comedy-horror-extravaganza Drag Me to Hell. Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker. But l...

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Punitive Superego: December 2010

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Saturday, December 4, 2010. Playing Cops and Robbers: Ben Affleck's The Town. Note: This article addresses specific plot points in the film, The Town. I first saw The Town. Is King's third "crime picture" in four years set in Boston following The Departed. And Edge of Darkness. And directing his younger brother Casey to some of the best reviews of his career in Gone Baby Gone. As far as I was concerned, The Town. Was a reminder of how little Affleck the romantic leading man was missed. Slightly longer th...

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Mike Snoonian « Pocket Full Of Chump Change

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Pocket Full Of Chump Change. Pocket Full of Chump Change. The Chumpchange Friday the 13th review, or “Why do the heroes never take off the big bad’s head when he appears dead? Quick dig: Jason X. Jason goes into space. That’s just…ridiculous. sad and ridiculous. So while the Friday movies aren’t much more than dumb, splatter cinema, I admit I geeked out as the date for the reboot got a little closer, and was stoked to grab a free pass for Monday’s sneak preview. February 20, 2009. Posted by Mike Snoonian.

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Punitive Superego: June 2011

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Thursday, June 23, 2011. The Devil's Double ('11 Lee Tamahori). A sadistic but engaging Muslim leader takes an instantaneous liking to a soft-spoken outsider. They usher them into their inner sanctum, lavish them with gifts, riches and a taste of a better life they could only dream of. They treat their new friend as a toy, becoming intensely possessive towards them and act like a violent, petulant child when their dancing marionette tries to cut free of their strings. And Cooper depict Latif as a saint, ...