Disjointed Batman thoughts (with tons of spoilers) after the jump. To be clear, I talk about lots of stuff that happened in the movie, so if you haven’t seen it yet and want to be surprised, do not read the rest of this.

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Hey, Common Sense Dancing did it again. EW has another list up, of “the New Classics”—movies of the last 25 years. The ones I’ve seen are in bold, the ones I’ve seen and loathed are in bold/italics (spoiler alert: the movies I hated are Hoop Dreams, Drugstore Cowboy, and Napoleon Dynamite). Enjoy this fascinatingself-indulgent look [...]

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Well, I wouldn’t go so far as INCREDIBLE. But it was pretty good. Ed Norton is always good, and he was good in this. Tim Roth is always good and a little weird, and he was good and a little weird in this. Liv Tyler played the same sweet, soft-spoken, boring woman she has played [...]

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I already posted this here, but what the hell. Enjoy the redundancy.

I saw the new Indy movie, and it was good!

It wasn’t great, but it was certainly enjoyable and well-made and not in any way a depressing mistake that spoiled the legacy of the films that came before it (looking at you, Phantom Menace…).

Be warned: [...]

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I saw Cloverfield. I wrote some stuff about it here (spoilers ahoy).

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Renaissance Faire meets March of the Penguins
La Boheme meets the Snorks
Halo 3 meets Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meals
The British Open ‘83 meets Resident Evil: Extinction
The Home Shopping Network meets Ultimate Fighting Championship
Walk the Line meets Revenge of the Nerds
Speed meets Speed 2 (try to get Dolph Lungren)
Spongebob Squarepants meets Sling Blade
CSI: Miami meets Antiques [...]

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First, this:

Then, this:

I love techno viking.

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A friend of mine from middle and high school was the assistant director and producer of a movie called Manda Bala, and I went to a screening in Cambridge on Friday. It’s a documentary about Brazil, tying together government corruption, kidnapping, and frog farming in a thoughtful, powerful, and convincing way. It won a jury [...]

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