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(Un)Common Denominators of the Last Six Films I’ve Watched…

Kelly Reilly and Rupert Friend.

Out of this list…

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Lars and the Real Girl
The Darjeeling Limited
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Libertine
The Young Victoria

…Two films of which they were in together.

Just noting a pattern.

Also, a shout out to Rosamund Pike for appearing in 3 of the last SEVEN movies I’ve watched. I feel as though I’ve been [...]

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2010 Pop Culture Conference Rundown

4 days, hundreds of professors, PhD/Grad/Undergraduate students and very short food breaks = the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association’s annual conference.

Ian Klein joined me in Albuquerque for another year of frying our brains with academic discourse on popular culture. We heard about 50 papers and drank a lot of smoothies. It was indescribably delightful.
Here’s [...]

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And Tonight Makes Four

Seriously, people. Go see it.

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New Record: One Film, Three Onscreen Viewings, Three Days in a Row

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One Meal to Feed Them All, One Meal to Find Them, One Meal to Bring Them All Where Watching Movies Binds Them

For the second year in a row, I spent the first day of the year going “There and Back Again” with friends, watching all three Lord of the Rings films. Last year we watched the theatrical cut of Fellowship and Return of the King, with the extended Two Towers in the middle (in my opinion, [...]

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Tiny Movie Review: The Brothers Bloom

The Pink Panther rides The Darjeeling
Limited with Harold and Maude.

I’m fine with that.

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The List 2009

“This List” Guide.
1. My List criteria changes a bit every year: 2006, 2007, 2008. This list is literally every film I watched in 2009. Thus, my best and worst are limited to what I personally saw and when I saw them—so it includes 2008 movies I didn’t see until 2009 and does not [...]

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December is A List-Lover’s Favorite Time of Year

While I’m currently chained to my desk working on my last paper of 2009, due Monday dec 21st, i figured I’d encourage myself my posting my annual list of paper titles a little early, as proof to myself that I have indeed, on numerous occasions, actually completed the paper-writing process.

Seems like I wrote fewer papers [...]

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Dialogical Film Club Run Down

I wanted to give each Dialogical Film Club gathering its own post, but as they stretch back to June, there’s just no way I can do honor to each individual film or the dialogue we had throughout it. So here’s an insufficient run down.
June: He’s Just Not that Into You
Chosen Because: We were [...]

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8 Tiny Movie Reviews

A friend just emailed me asking what I’d been watching recently that I might recomend to her. Fortunatley I have a word doc of every movie I’ve watched this year so far, so it was easy to think back on some recent favorites. I ended up writing little descriptions, so I figured I’d go ahead, [...]

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