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DearLeaderBlog: Cockfighter
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Friday, May 22, 2009. Harmed during the making of this film. Take a guess what this film is about.I wish I could add something more to Erich Schulte's Ruthless Review. Of Monte Hellman's Cockfighter. But he pretty much sums up the glory:. Of movies about training roosters to kill each other. For lack of a better word, about things like affixing "heels" or small daggers to the feet of game roosters and then watching with glee as they slash and peck each other to death. May 22, 2009 at 11:50 AM. The Haunti...
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DearLeaderBlog: Inglourious Basterds
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Friday, August 28, 2009. Or: How Col. Landa Got a Summer Home in Nantucket. To write up a review of Inglorious Basterds. While I was still glowing, right after I saw it on Sunday, but then I read Matt Cale's brilliant take at Ruthless. And as usual he pretty much covered everything that needs to be said about IB. And left little else to be explored, so please take that as the definitive take on the film, and this as a minor addendum. Basically, Basterds. They are more than caricatures, they are clockwork...
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DearLeaderBlog: Crimes and Misdemeanors
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009. If you want a happy ending, you should go see a Hollywood movie.". Anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex," says Jeff Goldblum's character in The Big Chill. When pressed that nothing is more important than sex, he responds, "Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization? I thought of that line when pondering how to write about Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors. What this woman is doing to me?
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DearLeaderBlog: Alien
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Monday, June 29, 2009. Despite having seen it at least a dozen times, Ridley Scott's Alien. From the very beginning, Scott's camera and the amazing sets it moves through, create a distinct, thoroughly detailed, and very real. Yet, the Alien is only half of this horror equation. Lest we forget that our crew is not just stalked by a walking phallus/ vagina dentata. June 30, 2009 at 2:23 PM. Just rewatched this a few days ago. awesome essay. awesome awesome awesome. well done. June 30, 2009 at 5:03 PM.
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DearLeaderBlog: Blindness
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Sunday, February 15, 2009. Ward of the Flies. Having watched Fernando Meirelles Blindness. Last night and since then having read many reviews from professional and amateur critics alike, in a feverish attempt to metabolize a film that has left a distinctly uncomfortable and unpleasant stain lingering in my consciousness, both because of the truly upsetting subject matter, but perhaps more so because of the difficulty I'm having deciding how I feel about it. Movies, or a number of others, Blindness,.
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DearLeaderBlog: The Iceman Cometh
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. It's been said that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, but it's become increasingly clear that it's also Hollywood for people that are no longer marketable in Hollywood. I speak of course about rumors that Val Kilmer is seriously considering a run for Governor. Of his home state of New Mexico, and in a country where two. This campaign commercial failed to inspire the people of Kentucky. You might also be surprised to know that Sonny, like another famous 80s action star.
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DearLeaderBlog: Wanted: Sexual Tyrannosaurs
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Thursday, October 8, 2009. They're casting a bunch of slack-jawed faggots in the new Predator. I see that the likes of Adrien Brody and Topher Grace will be filling the boots of Bill Duke, Jesse The Body, Sonny Landham, and Arnie. Adrien Brody weighs about a buck-twenty, soaking wet. I. Could kick his ass, a Predator? If it bleeds, we can kill it. Back to its roots, back to the jungle for some brutal tooth and nail, hunter/hunted type ish, but again.Adrien Brody? Was that Apollo Creed. I want to have me ...
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DearLeaderBlog: Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
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Friday, May 8, 2009. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet). It's a frog eat frog world. Would make a perfect double feature with Matteo Garrone's. As both films offer a portrait of the effects of endemic lawlessness and corruption up and down the social ladder in the planet's two most Catholic countries (Italy and Brazil). The differing approaches to the similar subject matter of the 21st century crime-state makes for an interesting comparison. While there is not a single corner of Garrone's. Is by equal turns terr...
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DearLeaderBlog: Zombieland
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Saturday, October 17, 2009. I shouldn't have liked Zombieland. As it parodies my beloved zombie genre mainly by ignoring every one of its central themes, ideas and conventions. Rather than a day, night or week of the dead, Zombieland. Which stands alone as both a perfect zombie film and perfect zombie film parody, Zombieland. Is simply a comedy with some zombies. Where Shaun. Got all its laughs from dealing crisply from the Romero deck with a dash of a British comedy of manners, Zombieland. While it may ...
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DearLeaderBlog: Black Sabbatical
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. So sorry for my rather extended absence here at The Leader, but you see I have something of a real life now which makes this whole "blogging" thing increasingly difficult, as it's a medium for shut-ins of the unemployed, deranged, unhinged, or simply depressed variety. So to all fifty or so of my readers, stick with me, I'll have my review of Antichrist. The date movie of the year! Or "Sam Raimi meets Ingmar Bergman! December 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM. January 1, 2010 at 7:18 AM.
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