November 2011

When it’s at it best, ‘Like Crazy’ explores the awkward, impulsive and wonderful parts of being in a youthful love affair.

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At times compelling, at times utterly ludicrous, ‘The Skin I Live In’ always gives us something eye-catching or stomach-churning to watch.

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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart play their connection convincingly, but they are the only ones. Ultimately, this movie has more forced sincerity than a Republican presidential debate.

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I have a life. I have a college degree. I am a mother of two daughters. I am gainfully employed in the tech industry. And yet…I’m a card carrying Twi-Hard. If loving The Twilight Saga is wrong, I don’t want to be right. Read my Top 10 Reasons Why Women Love Twilight to find out for yourself why so many educated, “normal” women –even mothers–go crazy for The Twilight Saga.

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I’m a card carrying Twilight fan (don’t judge me). However, I see the humor in the frenzy that surrounds Twilight. Enjoy my picks for the Top 5 Twilight Spoofs on the Web!

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‘The Other F Word’ is a documentary about punk rockers who are used to bucking authority and now find it hard to assimilate to fatherhood and keep their punk attitudes. Sounds interesting, but how’s the movie?

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Our bi-weekly movie-reference-happy comic strip here on Scene-Stealers is back. Each week his characters recreate a famous scene from a familiar film. See if you can guess this one…

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The 1968 Kaneto Shindo horror classic ‘Kuroneko’ is out in a beautiful new transfer from The Criterion Collection. Check out this DVD and Blu-ray review.

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Martin Scorsese has a lot of recurring themes in the movies he’s directed over the last 44 years, but he’s never helmed a 3D kids’ movie. That is until ‘Hugo’ is released on November 23. With that date approaching, I thought it would be a good time to tackle the filmography of Martin Scorsese, one of America’s greatest directors. Here are the Top 10 Martin Scorsese Movies.

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in 2005, having recently been ousted from the James Bond franchise, Pierce Brosnan bid a bitter adieu and good riddance to the Queen’s suave secret agent, dive bombing every 007 stereotype in the book with his fiendishly funny turn in an overlooked movie from writer/director Richard Shepard called ‘The Matador.’

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Two new historical dramas adapted from best-selling novels are out on Blu-ray and DVD. Read/watch Eric’s review to see if either are worth checking out.

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For anyone curious about exploring the origins of the French New Wave, Claude Chabrol’s ‘Les Cousins’ is a dark, pessimistic, and intelligently mounted film, out now on DVD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.

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In podcast #38, Eric and Trevan unceremoniously celebrate their first year of the podcast with a video montage no one can see. They also reminisce about the maddening Clint Eastwood biopic ‘J. Edgar,’ starring Leo DiCaprio and Emilio Estevez directing his dad Martin Sheen in ‘The Way.’

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‘J. Edgar’ is a frustrating watch for sure, and its pace flags several times due to some heavy-handed narration that struggles with these historical themes, but the fact that it’s always fighting itself is kind of fascinating too.

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Director Sean Durkin uses shallow depth of field in an attempt to accentuate the psychological claustrophobia that Martha feels. Instead he manages to distract from Elizabeth Olsen’s stellar performance and detach the viewer from the emotional content or a genuine understanding of a well developed character.

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