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Category Archives: indie
Juno
A surprisingly positive, funny movie that’s enjoyed great critical success including Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Jason Reitman for directing, Diablo Cody for the script and Ellen Page for Best Actress. This is only Reitman’s second feature, Cody’s first and … Continue reading
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Clerks II
Ten years on and much Hollywood success later, Kevin “Silent Bob” Smith returns to bookend the original black & white indie comedy that launched him. Where are Dante and Randal now? Has Dante outgrown his indecisiveness or Randal his adolescent … Continue reading
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Waitress
There were several TV specials last month celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars: A New Hope and one I watched explained how George Lucas employed the hero’s journey trope over the two trilogies, first from the … Continue reading
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Bubba Ho-tep
Some circles in which I usually find myself are very high on this Bruce Campbell/Ossie Davis 2002 flick but in this instance I’m on the outside looking in. Karina Montgomery captured my feelings well when she wrote “If you tilt … Continue reading
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Imagine Me and You
Piper Perabo and Lena Headey have the lead roles in this typically quirky 2005 Brit indie movie, a lesbian take on the discovering one’s true self just a smidge late plot. Writer/director Ol Parker doesn’t go for the exploitation possibilities, … Continue reading
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Everything is Illuminated
This seemed like the kind of small quirky film that I enjoy so when TiVo grabed it for me a second time I watched. Sadly, this is a bad small quirky film so I hit delete after about 30 minutes. … Continue reading
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Stranger than Fiction
I’ve never thought as much of Will Ferrell as other folks. Don’t get me wrong, I think he can be very funny but he goes in a direction that grates on me just a bit too frequently as in last … Continue reading
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Napoleon Dynamite
Frankly, I don’t get why people love this movie. There are plenty of similar status movies that I do get (for example Office Space and Rocky Horror Picture Show) so the fact that ND is quirky and non-standard is not … Continue reading
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Napoleon Dynamite
Frankly, I don’t get why people love this movie. There are plenty of similar status movies that I do get (for example Office Space and Rocky Horror Picture Show) so the fact that ND is quirky and non-standard is not the reason. I just can’t get past the inanity and the whole ‘step 1: say it loud, step 2: repeat until stupefication sets in’ formula. After half an hour I literally could not keep my eyes open.
I wasn’t going to even bother adding this to the blog except I want to test the Structured Blogging plugin. So suffer as I did!
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Sideways
For a movie from the director of About Schmidt and Election, and with the awards, nominations and critical acclaim it got, I expected a lot more of Sideways than I saw on the screen. If memory serves, some of those … Continue reading


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