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The long-promised SpoutBlog book is finally here !
An anthology of the posts that various SpoutBlog readers, trusted advisors and I consider to be my “greatest hits” as editor of this blog, The Portable SpoutBlog contains 41 previously published pieces, a new introductory essay (intended ...
Comedy
Still one more day til Halloween (Silver Shamrock!), but as this will be the final Today in Film Bloggery post ever on SpoutBlog, it’s my only opportunity to do a roundup of what the blogs are posting this week related to the holiday of candy and costumes.
I’ll actually be ...
Horror
Halloween
War of the Worlds
Orson Welles
Paranormal Activity
Poltergeist
Martin Scorsese
I apologize — I have run out of time to answer many of questions you’ve sent me via the Ask Karina thread. So, here is another batch of quick answers. Feel free to follow up in the comments on this post; you can also contact me directly through my personal website .
First, a whole ...
Comedy
The most popular lists on SpoutBlog have involved sex scenes or Halloween costumes. So, to give the people what they want we’ve decided to combine both topics for our final list ever. It makes sense anyway, seeing as how Halloween is this weekend and seeing as how the holiday has pretty much ...
Action
Halloween
Revenge of the Nerds
Teen Wolf
Watchmen
Hancock
Faizon Love
Okay, okay. It looks better. But that only makes me want to comment less on the latest Avatar trailer. Because there’s still no point in pre-critiquing the thing. If it does end up really good, I’ll believe Fox should have released this trailer from the start. However, seeing one ...
Action
Avatar
James Cameron
Giovanni Ribisi
Sigourney Weaver
Dances with Wolves
Extraordinary forces — knee-jerk wariness of capitalism, ordinary standards of human decency in the face death — conspire to give This is It the stench of a robbed grave. A rushed release of footage documenting rehearsals for a series of concerts Michael Jackson was about to launch when he ...
Other
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With ten spots available this year for potential
Best Picture nominees, it’s been easy to consider every
other new movie a candidate for the top Oscar. But for every pundit who believes something like Up or The Hurt Locker or, now, This ...
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Invictus Trailer Promises a Real Best Picture Contender. ...
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blog.spout.com - 23 days ago
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Ti West ’s The House of the Devil
finds its sweet spot in the paranoid shadow of
misdirection, so it’s best not to reveal much of the plot beyond what you’ll know from watching the trailer: it’s the 80s, and a sleepy college town is obsessed with ...
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THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL Review
Did you see Paranormal Activity ? Did you like it? If you answered yes to the second question, you mostly have writer-director Oren Peli to thank. But if you didn’t like it, you can thank Paramount for at least getting you in the movie theater. And the studio’s shareholders ...
Horror
Paranormal Activity
The Blair Witch Project
Steve Carr
Paul Blart Mall Cop
Medicine for Melancholy , which you’ve had to endure me raving about since virtually the beginning of this blog, comes out on DVD today . Here’s another look at my review…
Visually more sophisticated than the bulk of features to yet come out of the new wave of DIY ...
Adventure
Richard Jenkins
blog.spout.com - 23 days ago
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This post is in response to a question
asked in the Ask Karina thread by eugene: “You
referenced this in your “Bagger” post, but what do you think is the future of film blogging? Where is all this going?” I generally feel uncomfortable ...
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Let’s put flashlights under our chins and look into the ...
This post is a response to several comments in the Ask Karina thread, asking me about my favorite films of all time.
I find it extraordinarily difficult to make “top” or “best” lists of any kind; I’m uncomfortable making reductive decisions and I feel silly ...
Drama
This post is a response to a query posed by gokinsmen in the Ask Karina thread : “Avant-garde and short films. Your favorites, ‘the state of…’”
I’m not sure I know what “avant-garde” means anymore, and the only reason I admit that is because the ...
Animation
Shorts
Zack Snyder
Simon West
Martin Short
Nothing hurts the credibility of the film blogosphere like bad rumors. Not even supercilious comments from Armond White or Peter Bart ( before he gave in and started blogging himself ) have cut so deep as the embarrassment of believing word about an E.T. sequel , Daniel Radcliffe being cast as ...
Action
Star Wars
Francis Ford Coppola
Avatar
Steven Spielberg
George Lucas
J.J. Abrams
As you may have heard , in a little over a week, I will no longer be writing this blog. I will continue to write about film elsewhere (I hope), but it won’t be the same. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that blog takes on a life of its own. My voice bounces off ...
Horror
Antichrist stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a married couple (they’re never named) who lose their only child in a freak accident, which they were present for but failed to stop; the operatic sex they were having at the time was something of a distraction. After she spends some ...
