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Kinematoscope: Go See How To Train Your Dragon!
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What was it you showed me then? Go See How To Train Your Dragon! Monday, April 5, 2010. Labels: How To Train Your Dragon. Oh my god just go see it. Look, I see a lot of films, and I like a whole bunch of them. But never do I unabashedly rave about things, so believe me when I say this is important:. Go see How To Train Your Dragon. Yeah Clearly Cameron and co. pioneered live-action 3D shooting, and 3D as a hugely successful business model, but you can't buy heart and you can't force thrills. Is simple an...
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Kinematoscope: IMDB #183 The Killing
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What was it you showed me then? IMDB #183 The Killing. Monday, June 28, 2010. Today we tackle the "sport of kings," with the heist-caper The Killing. And no, the sport of kings is not stealing things, but horse racing (though according to the classic late 90s show "Sports Night". It may be either poker or yacht-racing. But let's not split hairs, here). We cross paths once again in his early, pre visionary-epic career. Seriously, this movie's only 83 minutes! I thought I would need the entire afternoon.
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Kinematoscope: The Top 20 Movies of 2010, part 2
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What was it you showed me then? The Top 20 Movies of 2010, part 2. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Labels: How To Train Your Dragon. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. This took forever to order correctly, just so you're aware. Let's get to it! I will fully admit I have too much of a soft-spot for TRON. I saw it when I was in grade school, and then I wrote a story for English class that was more or less a bald-faced ripoff. So there's that, plus Jeff Bridges basically playing The Dude in TRON. To be in the top ten.
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Some Good Old-Fashioned Xanadu Can-Do Spirit: Torrent Trash
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Some Good Old-Fashioned Xanadu Can-Do Spirit. The Good, The Bad, and the Sparkly. Wednesday, January 30, 2008. I was scanning through BT Junkie. To see what the pirates had to offer of late. With the risks associated with downloading media content of any stripe, would you really want to be caught and prosecuted for downloading any of the following titles? Come on, people, this shit will be at the budget in a week and on DVD in three. As my 4th grade teacher always said, "Patience. Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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Kinematoscope: The Town
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What was it you showed me then? Thursday, September 23, 2010. Ben Affleck's directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone. Was an unexpected delight- assured, authentic, and relatively taut. The plot, from Dennis "Boston is the new Purgatory" Lehane, got a little murky in the end; Ben's brother Casey and Amy Ryan had to work overtime to cover for weak performances elsewhere, but such flaws were easy to overlook after going in with one eyebrow raised skeptically. Expectations for his sophomore effort, The Town. Does ...
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Kinematoscope: The Social Network
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What was it you showed me then? Tuesday, October 5, 2010. There's a moment halfway through The Social Network. Wherein Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), Napster co-founder and proverbial devil on the should of Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), relates to the budding billoinaire the story of Roy Raymond- a man embarassed to buy lingerie for his wife in a department store, who had the idea to open a chain of lingerie specialty shops and an accompanying mail-order business called Victoria's Secret. It's a s...
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Kinematoscope: The Top 20 Movies of 2010, part 1
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What was it you showed me then? The Top 20 Movies of 2010, part 1. Monday, March 21, 2011. Never Let Me Go. It bugs me when people say things like "this was a pretty weak year for movies.". First of all, that's not something we can judge until AT LEAST five years afterward. Secondly, you just have to know where to look. Despite the internet seemingly concurring that this was a down year, I found myself wanting to do a top 20 instead of a top 10. So here's the first half of the best 2010 had to offer.
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Kinematoscope: Unranked: Mary and Max
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What was it you showed me then? Unranked: Mary and Max. Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Leading questions about the many movies not in the top 250. It's claymation, that's what! One of my favorite things ever since Gumby. If I have a heart, is Gumby a pal for me? Anyway, what's 'Mary and Max' about? It's about a lonely little girl from Australia and a man from New York City with Asperger's syndrome that become unlikely pen pals. It claims it's 'based on a true story' at the beginning. Is it a kids' movie?
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Kinematoscope: Dave's Top Ten of 2010
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What was it you showed me then? Dave's Top Ten of 2010. Friday, March 25, 2011. Labels: 2010 in film. Because of Franco’s performance), Blue Valentine. Because of Gosling and Williams’ searing work), How to Train Your Dragon. Because it completely surprised me), The Human Centipede. Because it delivered on what it promised and the care with which the film was made showed), The Other Guys. Because Ferrell and McKay always make me laugh), Piranha 3-D. Because it nearly made me cry). 10 Paranormal Activity 2.
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Kinematoscope: The Tree of Life
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What was it you showed me then? The Tree of Life. Monday, June 27, 2011. The tree of life. The Tree of Life. Is a song to the human, to the world, to time. It is a sweeping, swooning roller-coaster through the moments that make us alive, the blades of grass that whisper to our fingertips, the ancient stairway that we stumble blindly upward upon. Blinks and recollects the dawn of time and the universe itself. But it's a natural shift- the poetry of every frame of Emmanuel Lubezki's artful cinematography, ...
