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...and it was about what I expected, an entertaining if sometimes bland telling of the story of Michael Oher. The essentially orphaned Oher (Quinton Aaron) was taken in by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy (Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw), whose children attended the same private Christian high school ...
Other
The Blind Side
Sandra Bullock
Christian Bale
I've sat through a few Sandra Bullock vehicles that were frankly pretty bad because I've always had a low-grade crush on Ms. B.; for my money she doesn't have the looks crossed with the Ivy League hauteur of Natalie Portman but she's genuinely beautiful and charming in an unfussy and very ...
Comedy
Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
Academy Awards
Natalie Portman
The Proposal
I'm late getting to Precious: Blah Blah Blah by Sapphire , and it seems that the critical consensus on the film has come down on the side of Oscar contender and Oprah-blessed transformative experience. I can certainly understand that reaction since Lee Daniels's film wastes no opportunity to ...
Drama
Had the pleasure of hanging out with old friend and co-blogger Rob last night; he tells me that Rawlings's new A Friend of a Friend is the "album of the year". Here's Rawlings and Gillian Welch joining in on an Emmylou Harris song. This continues my streak of good videos marred by lousy ...
Other
Two celebrated films with young female protagonists opened at my local theatre today, and while Lone Scherfig's An Education flies onto screens without the endorsement of Oprah Winfrey or Tyler Perry (more on Precious in an upcoming post) it is by far the superior film. This richly detailed ...
Drama
An Education
A whiny, vague post that goes off on perceived self-absorption in indie rock. Was the Garden State soundtrack really that influential? More importantly, did this post fall through a time warp from 2004? What does the following paragraph mean? (PopMatters) But while Tommy NewYorkBigwig used to ...
Comedy
The Class
Natalie Portman
I'm of the mind that Palin isn't worth talking about. Andrew Sullivan disagrees , but I think the notoriety he gained last year questioning the parentage of Trig may have gone to his head. It's dubious to claim that Palin is the "likeliest nominee" for the GOP in 2012 and a 3rd party candidacy ...
Drama
2012
Andrew Adamson
Sarah Connor
Dave Eggers has received the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, the people who give out the National Book Awards. The Literarian Award is given for "outstanding service to the American literary community" and the NBF website mentions Eggers's cofounding of the 826 tutoring ...
Sci-Fi
Foundation
The expectations game can't be ignored when discussing Norah Jones's new CD The Fall since the album has been billed as her sort of gentle coming-out as a "rock" artist" (Jones has been playing guitar in concert for a little while now ) and it has become cliche to dismiss Jones's previous work ...
Adventure
The Fall
Amy Adams
Five reasons Pirate Radio flopped. (I'm seeing it this week) (IFC) 1. No one cares about Richard Curtis in the US. Richard Curtis did time on "BlackAdder" and "Mr. Bean." That means nothing in the US (sadly). He did, however, write the following romcom staples: "Four Weddings and a Funeral," ...
Horror
The Box
Paste magazine listed its 50 Best Albums of the 2000s recently, and while I admire Sufjan Stevens (a little more than I actually like him I think) I can't quite get behind Illinoise as the decade's best. I also think the new Avett Brothers is fantastically overrated on this list; as you might ...
Other
The List
Coen Brothers
Reprise
What did the Wall Street Journal have to do to get Cormac McCarthy to sit down for an interview? He's pretty engaging on family life, work habits, and the upcoming film of The Road . (The film's director John Hillcoat joins in the chat) WSJ: The last five years have seemed very productive for ...
Drama
Cormac Mccarthy
The Road
Two profiles in today's Times: the long piece on Megan Fox spends a good deal of time recounting past controversies and is notable for Fox's apparent utter honesty and lack of affect about her own abilities and what's expected of her as a sex symbol. Jennifer's Body may well have made more ...
Other
Kristen Stewart
Megan Fox
The Coen Brothers' (mostly) black-hearted A Serious Man has been described in some quarters as their most "personal" film, as if all their previous work had been made from a kit. The late-1960's Minnesota setting and academic father do parallel the Coen's own childhood, but A Serious Man isn't ...
Comedy
A Serious Man
Coen Brothers
How does Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore feel about the last decade ? What decade? (Monitor Mix) I don't even think of the 2000s or whatever it's called as a specific decade, really. The decades of the last century each had such significant cultural developments, I feel like there's some kind of ...
Other
For Ben Brandreth - an actor, footballer (soccer), and classic rock fan who left too soon.
Other
Chris Rock
The Jam - That's Entertainment Drive By Truckers - Feb 14 Elvis Costello - Jack of All Parades New Pornographers - Mystery Hours Spinanes - Sunday Husker Du - How To Skin A Cat Silver Jews - San Francisco BC ( I accidentally hit the back button on this one halfway through and then decided to ...
Adventure
The Spirit
Rob Zombie
...to add the movie Next Day Air to my Netflix queue? In Armond White's review of Precious he compares Next Day Air to the plays of August Wilson. Thoughts?
Adventure
Next Day Air
Netflix
I've been thinking about an artist's work habits lately, inspired by the fact that I am appearing in a production of As You Like It at my alma mater and everyone else in the cast is an undergraduate. It occurred to me that I really have no memories from my student days of doing shows there; ...
