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Pink Ribbons, Inc. (Pool, 2011)

kenmorefield@gmail.com (Kenneth R. Morefield) — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:10:30 +0000

Pink Ribbons, Inc. is really three different documentaries: one that works, one that doesn’t, and one that is mildly effective but distracts and detracts from the principle message. The most effective thread is the exposure of ...

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2011)

kenmorefield@gmail.com (Kenneth R. Morefield) — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:17:32 +0000

I’ve often said I would pay to watch Tom Wilkinson or Judi Dench read the phone book. I’m just not sure how I feel about watching them remake The Breakfast Club. That’s probably not entirely fair ...

Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002) — 10 Years Later

kenmorefield@gmail.com (Kenneth R. Morefield) — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:56:47 +0000

I listed Minority Report as my #1 film of 2002, and ten years later the thing I find most surprising about that fact is how brave I felt and counter-cultural I thought I was being. In ...

Chicago (Marshall, 2002) — 10 Years Later

kenmorefield@gmail.com (Kenneth R. Morefield) — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:39:16 +0000

Sometimes in doing these retrospectives, ten years seems like no time at all. At other times, it seems like forever. Here is what Catherine Zeta-Jones has done since nabbing an Academy Award for Best Supporting ...

Blue Like Jazz and other Podcasts

kenmorefield@gmail.com (Kenneth R. Morefield) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:00:34 +0000

I have been busy podcasting over at Film Geek Radio. New episodes include discussions with Todd C. Truffin about Blue Like Jazz, Primary Colors, and Love Free or Die. Click on any of these links ...

Girl Model (Redmon and Sabin, 2011)

kenmorefield@gmail.com (Kenneth R. Morefield) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:19:49 +0000

Girl Model is the most starkly depressing movie I’ve seen since… Well, see, that’s an interesting question. At a scant seventy-eight minutes, it lacks the sheer mass of Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In or ...