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November 2010

November 04, 2010

The King’s Speech (Hooper, 2010)

Fresh on the heels of winning the Cadillac People's Choice Award at the Toronto International...

October 2010

October 15, 2010

Conviction (Goldwyn, 2010)

The pitch sounds like a “can’t miss” movie, and Minnie Driver, Juliette Lewis, and Melissa...

October 14, 2010

Blue Valentine — 1More Podcast Episode 7c

In which Cindy helps Ken talk himself off the fence and into appreciating Blue Valentine....

October 08, 2010

Stone (Curran, 2010)

Director John Curran made two perhaps inadvertently telling comments to the Toronto Film Festival audience...

October 06, 2010

Marwencol (Malmberg, 2010)

Marwencol is a fascinating blend of two different genres, the artist documentary and the therapy...

October 03, 2010

Made in Dagenham — 1More Podcast Episode 7b

The film is as much about the relationships between these women and how they are...

October 01, 2010

The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher are not two creators I would have instinctively paired, but...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

Amigo — 1More Podcast Episode 7a

In Part II of our Toronto International Film Festival wrap up, Cindy and I discuss...

September 27, 2010

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow — 1More Podcast Episode 7

In Part I of our Toronto International Film Festival Wrap for 2010, Cynthia L. Morefield...

September 20, 2010

The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer

If anyone out there is writing a history of film making over the last 30...

September 17, 2010

Easy A (Gluck, 2010)

Smart, funny, and unexpectedly sweet, Will Gluck's Easy A is the most pleasant surprise of...

September 16, 2010

Anything You Want (Mañas, 2010)

Botto plays Leo, a Spanish lawyer with a wife, child, and healthy masculine disgust at...

September 15, 2010

Tamara Drewe (Frears, 2010)

Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe is essentially a Restoration sex comedy set in the English countryside.

September 14, 2010

The Illusionist (Chomet, 2010)

So The Illusionist himself could be seen as a symbol of the traditional animator seeing...

September 14, 2010

Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2010)

I was glad that I saw Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men on the same...

September 13, 2010

Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)

I will cop to saying that Ishiguro is on my short list of greatest living...

September 11, 2010

Jucy (Alston, 2010)

I'm a little suspicious, though, about people who make films about their own friendships.

September 10, 2010

The Way (Estevez, 2010)

There's not a whole lot about Emilio Estevez's The Way that doesn't ring true. Given...

September 10, 2010

Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010)

A repeated hypothesis of Ferguson and his team was that such chutzpah comes from sustained...

September 07, 2010

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (Rebello, 1990)

Perhaps it is anathema for me to say, being an academic, but there is something...

August 2010

August 27, 2010

Takers (Luessenhop, 2010)

If it invites but doesn't quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann's Heat, well, at least...

August 20, 2010

The Switch (Gordon & Speck, 2010)

While I am on the subject of The Switch not really being a romantic comedy...

August 13, 2010

Eat Pray Love (Murphy, 2010)

I was able to accept this not as a blueprint for how to live my...

August 13, 2010

1More Podcast — Episode 6

Kenneth R. Morefield, Peter Waldron, and Cynthia L Morefield podcast about critical backlash.

August 09, 2010

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Blakeson, 2009)

The Disappearance of Alice Creed has all the ingredients of a horror-porn exploitation film, but...

August 06, 2010

The Other Guys (McKay, 2010)

Here's the most important thing you need to know about The Other Guys: it is...

August 02, 2010

The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010)

It's just a small, loving gesture.

July 2010

July 23, 2010

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a brutal film. That in and of itself...

July 15, 2010

Predators (Antal, 2010)

Looking for, or discussing, plot holes is a fool's errand that only serves to make...

July 14, 2010

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Simoneau, 2007)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was one of the books of my young adolescence:...

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