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1More Podcast — January 2010

Kenneth R. Morefield, Elizabeth Rambo, and Peter Waldron podcast about their favorite films of 2009.

April 2010

April 30, 2010

1More Podcast — February 2010

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April 25, 2010

Fish Out of Water (Dickens, 2010)

I suppose a Christian corollary would be that to truly make a Biblical argument, you...

April 16, 2010

My Perestroika (Hessman, 2010)

These people, incidentally just as my own parents, were Lenin’s Pioneers growing up behind the...

April 14, 2010

Stonewall Uprising (Davis & Heilbroner, 2010)

If there was one moving, indelible image that I took away from the film, it...

April 10, 2010

Family Affair (Colvard, 2010)

One in four women over the age of eighteen has experienced some form of sexual...

April 10, 2010

Do It Again (Patton-Spruill, 2010)

Boston Globe music journalist Geoff Edgers states in his brief and lovable documentary Do It...

April 02, 2010

Belle de jour (Buñuel, 1967)

Belle de jour is often described as a film about a middle-class housewife (Deneuve) who...

March 2010

March 11, 2010

Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink, 2010)

A few years ago I wrote in a review that in an age of fatwahs...

March 02, 2010

Offside (Panahi, 2006)

In soccer (or football, as the non-American world stubbornly persists in calling it), there is...

February 2010

February 27, 2010

Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)

If I had watched Gun Crazy (a.k.a. Deadly is the Female) a year ago...well, okay,...

February 16, 2010

Homemade Hillbilly Jam (Minnich, 2005)

I'm not sure if I am the first or only person to approach Homemade Hillbilly...

February 07, 2010

A Single Man (Ford, 2009)

If George Falconer (Colin Firth) lacks some of the more obvious self-loathing qualities that normally...

January 2010

January 16, 2010

Lake Tahoe (Eimbcke, 2008)

The road movie is a staple of Western film, but rarely does one begin by...

January 13, 2010

The Lovely Bones (Jackson, 2009)

I'll give Peter Jackson this. He is the type of director who, when he sees...

December 2009

December 27, 2009

Nine (Marshall, 2009)

I walk around suppressing the urge to burst into song about 80% of the time.

December 25, 2009

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Daniels, 2009)

I've been putting off writing about Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, mostly,...

December 21, 2009

Me and Orson Welles (Linklater, 2008)

It is to the credit of Me and Orson Welles that it managed to make...

December 20, 2009

I Am an American: The Making of an Anthem (Lott, 2009)

I would say then that one of the values of "I Am an American" and...

December 06, 2009

Gigante (Biniez, 2009)

Biniez doesn’t mock Jara but instead lets us see the world through his eyes.

December 01, 2009

Blog Disclosure Policy Abbreviations

It is the policy of this blog that if the editor or reviewer has received from...

November 2009

November 21, 2009

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Weitz, 2009)

Summit Entertainment heard their cries and has delivered a well-wrought, thoughtful version of New Moon...

November 15, 2009

Somers Town (Meadows, 2009)

OK, I admit it. I’m a sucker for the Coming-Of-Age film genre

November 03, 2009

Trumbo (Askin, 2007)

One strength of the film is that it relies heavily on the words of a...

November 01, 2009

Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)

Although the movie is named for Sterling Hayden’s character, the story really revolves around saloon...

September 2009

September 21, 2009

The Road (Hillcoat, 2009)

As a professional literature teacher, I always feel guilty about not getting behind the Cormac...

September 15, 2009

Agora (Amenábar, 2009)

Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Agora at 1More Film Blog.

September 11, 2009

Vision (von Trotta, 2009)

Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that...

September 10, 2009

An Education (Scherfig, 2009)

Day one of the Toronto International Film Festival got off to a spectacular start with...

September 07, 2009

To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

The larger point, though, is that Hollywood has participated from the beginning in shaping our...