Category: 2009
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March 16, 2010
Ever since I saw Cache, Michael Haneke entered my radar as a filmmaker to follow. If you haven't seen that movie, do so now - it's a perfect companion piece to White Ribbon.
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February 24, 2010
Since so many people have been laid off or experienced stress in the workplace, a movie like Up in the Air is one that takes our common experiences and features them from the
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February 18, 2010
I feel like that episode of The Simpsons when Ringo Starr is answering all of his fan letters with the post script, "Please forget the lateness of my reply." I have been trying to post reviews of in-theater movies while they are still in the theater, bu…
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February 11, 2010
I went to see this movie at the cheap theater simply because I loved the book as a child. I was well aware going into it that it wasn't going to be very close to the book (which is a short book anyway), so I was somewhat prepared for the insanity that w…
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February 10, 2010
The same day I went to see Broken Embraces, I also saw The Young Victoria. I wish I would have known they were going to be more popular, since I drove out to Irvine to see them. They both ended up playing in Brea. Personally, I feel that The Young Vic…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:00:42 pm | movies, 2009 | Leave a comment »
Over the holiday break I made a point of going out to see several movies despite the fact that I didn't feel very passionate about seeing anything that was in the theaters. I have enjoyed several of Pedro Almodovar's movies, but the idea of Broken Embra…
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February 2, 2010
I think I forgot to mention on this blog how much I love Conan O'Brien. Sometimes last year I started subscribing to his show on Hulu and watching it every day. I got some of my heartiest laughs of the day from that show. Well, not long before he went…
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January 27, 2010
All of the hype that led up to the release of Avatar really didn't affect me much. I saw the trailers and was underwhelmed. To be honest, the idea that this movie was being released in 3D, which was intended to enhance the realistic look of the film, s…
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Posted by Jeri at 05:06:14 pm | movies, 2009 | 1 comment »
January 26, 2010
I actually read Cormac McCarthy's novel earlier this year. It's a Pulitzer-winner, so I broke out of my usual habit of only reading old classics (which really is just a habit rather than a rule, but habits are so comfortable, aren't they?). In this ins…
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January 8, 2010
Ric and I saw Where the Wild Things Are way back in November when we were on vacation in Monterey. There was a lot of build up for this movie, which had an awesome trailer that was mostly a music video, which makes sense, because director Spike Jonze ga…
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Posted by Jeri at 11:09:17 am | movies, 2009 | 1 comment »
December 3, 2009
Ric and I caught G.I. Joe at the cheap theater - rather smart of us, I think. This one had a certain look to it in the trailers. It seemed a lot like the later Brosnan Bond movies. It's glossy, it's ridiculous, and it makes you cringe sometimes, but i…
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Posted by Jeri at 12:03:43 pm | movies, 2009 | 5 comments »
November 29, 2009
An Education stars Carey Mulligan as a young girl named Jenny who has always been taught to prepare herself for college. Her focus is always on her education, and her father (Alfred Molina) pushes her to succeed so she can one day study at Oxford. His…
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November 28, 2009
For me, this movie had a lot of things going against it, first and foremost the title. The title makes everyone think that director Werner Herzog is remaking the Bad Lieutenant movie that starred Harvey Keitel. It isn't a remake in any way. The two mo…
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October 22, 2009
About once in each year, there's a movie that appeals to the innermost girlie part of me, and I will admit that Bright Star is that movie for 2009. The love of Keats and Fanny was fraught with barriers, namely, money, but in this movie, there are…
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October 17, 2009
I'm falling behind in watching and reviewing movies again. Yikes! Ric and I went to see Zombieland about two weeks ago. He saw the trailer and could not resist the appeal to his sense of humor. I went along for the ride, not too sure whether I really…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:06:54 pm | movies, 2009 | 1 comment »
September 23, 2009
I don't like it when movies use exclamation points in their titles. It always makes punctuation difficult, because I don't italicize movie titles on my blog, so if I type the title in the middle of a sentence, it'll look like a sentence fragment. So, I…
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Posted by Jeri at 09:24:26 pm | movies, 2009 | 3 comments »
September 16, 2009
We went to see 9 over the weekend, which is an animated feature brought to you by Focus Features. Since when did Focus jump into the ring? Well, imdb says since Coraline. And if that's how they start off in the arena of animation, I'm excited to see w…
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September 8, 2009
Ric and I were interested by the premise of It Might Get Loud, in which a warehouse is filled with a comfy sitting environment and several guitars, and three different guitarists are invited to come, talk, play, and see what happens. The three guitarist…
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Posted by Jeri at 09:04:46 pm | update, movies, 2009 | 2 comments »
September 1, 2009
As I mentioned earlier, I went to see Inglourious Basterds over the weekend. I wasn't particularly excited about it for some reason, even though I do tend to like movies by Quentin Tarantino. Lately I feel like I've been rather the apologist for him, b…
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August 16, 2009
I didn't know much at all about District 9 when entering the theater, which made my experience all the more better. As far as I knew, there were aliens living in a camp on the earth, and that people said it made references to apartheid, since it's set i…
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Posted by Jeri at 07:05:21 pm | movies, 2009 | 1 comment »
August 13, 2009
Ric was out of town, so my sister and I had the perfect opportunity to go see Julie and Julia. It's all the rage, apparently, although I have to admit that it's probably geared towards a slightly older audience.. like people who actually used to watch h…
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August 12, 2009
The only thing I knew about The Hurt Locker before going to see it was that was about a bomb squad unit in Iraq. The accolades were rolling in from all the critics, so Ric and I sought it out (it's in Brea if you've got a chance to check it out) and are…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:46:14 pm | movies, 2009 | 3 comments »
August 11, 2009
I was cautiously looking forward to 500 Days of Summer because there were a lot of rave reviews floating around the internet when it first came out. Being a fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, I let myself believe those reviews and went to…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:37:15 pm | movies, 2009 | 1 comment »
August 7, 2009
I walked into the theater to see Food, Inc. carrying a soda and some popcorn, fully knowing that I'd probably feel guilty about that food choice by the movie's end. I was right, somewhat, and because of that, I'd recommend that if you don't want to come…
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Posted by Jeri at 09:44:21 pm | movies, 2009 | 1 comment »
In the middle of all of the summer blockbusters, it's certainly refreshing to go see a movie that's a little bit more low-key. Moon is just that - it's so low-key that it all happens pretty much in one building and starring one person, Sam Rockwell. Hi…
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Posted by Jeri at 09:24:23 pm | movies, 2009 | Leave a comment »
August 5, 2009
Now that I've seen this movie three times, I feel I can write about it fairly comfortably. I saw it once when I took off of work early to see it with some girls from work, saw it again when Ric wanted to see it, and then again when Ric's family was visi…
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Posted by Jeri at 04:48:01 pm | movies, 2009 | 1 comment »
July 30, 2009
Here comes another round of movie reviews from the past couple of months. Hold on to your knickers!
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
This tells you how far behind I am in reviews, Amy! We watched this a while back with Ryan and A…
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Posted by Jeri at 02:56:35 pm | movies, netflix/tivo, 2008, with the agadonis, 2009 | 11 comments »
July 7, 2009
I'm always game for a gangster movie, especially one starring Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, and Marion Cotillard. They're all fine actors who usually make good choices (with the exception of Bale in Terminator Salvation), so I expected to be treated to a…
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Posted by Jeri at 05:31:56 pm | movies, 2009 | 6 comments »
July 6, 2009
I was willing to wait for the cheap theater for this movie, but Ric was in the mood, and after all, summer blockbusters are meant to be seen with some decent sound and projection. This sequel to Transformers takes place a couple years after the first mo…
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June 11, 2009
One never knows what one is going to get when seeing a movie starring Nicolas Cage, but one does know that when seeing a movie directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City), it's probably going to be interesting. It's actually interesting to compare Dark City wit…
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Posted by Jeri at 05:06:49 pm | movies, 2009 | 2 comments »
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