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January 23, 2012

Our Favorite Films of 2011

Our contributors weigh in on the most memorable films of 2011.

January 12, 2012

The Moviegoer: The Girl Who Played with Boundaries

"Perhaps the film relies too much on the extremes, gadgetry, and cool edginess to keep...

January 12, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "The Third Man" (Reed, 1949)

"...the world doesn’t suffer from a lack of villains. In fact, it has too many."

January 05, 2012

The Moviegoer: "Young Adult" or Monster?

Reitman’s film aptly captures the ironic childishness of a certain kind of “young adult.”

January 05, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

"I use this film to talk to my students about... the unknown knowns that orient...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

The Moviegoer: "Of Gods and Men" (Beauvois, 2011)

Xavier Beauvois’ film is a quiet meditation on what it means to be a faithful...

December 22, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Out of the Past"

In film noir, you never win: you just see how long you can stave off...

December 15, 2011

The Moviegoer: "The Descendants" and the Search for Stewardship

"The film’s comedic elements felt contrived, thereby diminishing the effectiveness of what could have been...

December 15, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Singin' in the Rain"

"Singin’ in the Rain" is glorious because it revels in its own artificiality.

December 14, 2011

The CaPC Superlatives: Noteworthy Achievements in Film and Memes

We coupled Muppets with Planking You can't get this just anywhere, folks.

December 08, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Citizen Kane"

Let’s work with the assumption that "Citizen Kane" says something essential about being an American.

December 01, 2011

The Moviegoer: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" (Herzog, 2011)

Werner Herzog guides us through the world’s oldest known art display.

November 2011

November 24, 2011

The Moviegoer: "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (Durkin, 2011)

Sean Durkin's film offers a haunting glimpse into the nature of cults and the damage...

November 21, 2011

Of Shakespeare and Conspiracies: The Real Stakes of the "Who Was Shakespeare?" Debate

The debate regarding Shakespeare's authorship can teach us how to think critically about conspiracy theories.

November 17, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Days of Heaven"

"When you watch this film, you keep falling back on particulars because its scope seems...

November 17, 2011

The Moviegoer: The Rum Diary (Robinson, 2011)

The Rum Diary succeeds intermittently, almost in spite of the film's protracted duration.

November 16, 2011

The CaPC Superlatives: Noteworthy Achievements in Film, Music, Advertising, and Games

Get your popcorn and soda pop. Here are some superlatives, guys (and gals).

November 03, 2011

The Moviegoer: Egoistic Young Adults, Noah, and Other Link-worthy News

"Instead of a review this week, I thought I'd pass along some interesting movie-related links."

October 2011

October 27, 2011

The Moviegoer: Buck (Meehl, 2011)

A powerful documentary that shows how even inhumane circumstances can be redeemed into something beautiful,...

October 20, 2011

The Moviegoer: The Ides of March (Clooney, 2011)

"Its portrayal is unconcerned with how we wish the political sphere functioned; instead, this film...

October 13, 2011

The Moviegoer: 50/50 (Levine, 2011)

"[D]ark circumstances are sometimes necessary to reveal the hidden darkness in our hearts."

October 06, 2011

The Moviegoer: "Looking Closer"

"Like Robinson and Malick, Overstreet has taught me to sharpen my optical lenses by the...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

The Moviegoer: "Moneyball" and the Art of Reinvention

"Moneyball reminds us that reinventing one's self is less a mathematical formula than an art...

September 27, 2011

I Don't Know How She Does It: The Danger of Self-Directed Parenting

The new Sarah Jessica Parker movie presents us with a self-centered view of motherhood.

September 22, 2011

The Moviegoer: A History of Driving

"Drive is...primarily...style over substance. And, yet, it is by virtue of its style that the...

September 15, 2011

The Moviegoer: "Contagion" and the Horror of Purposelessness

"This is the horror of epidemic disasters: their seeming purposelessness. There is no apparent enemy...

September 08, 2011

The Moviegoer: "The Debt," 9/11, and the Ethics of Recompense

"When we demand that the enemy pays, where is the line between justice and vengeance?"

September 01, 2011

The Moviegoer: Aliens and Recognizing the Human “Other” in Attack the Block

Attack the Block is a breath of comedic fresh air, because of its interesting premise.

August 2011

August 18, 2011

The Moviegoer: What was the Context?

"Our embodied lives dictate that we cannot understand moral questions apart from narrative context."

August 11, 2011

The Moviegoer: Rise of the (inhuman) Humane Society

"...the film backs off of the franchise’s usual redemptive possibilities in depicting humans who act...

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