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FilmCouch #76 - The Comedies of Our Lives

If you had to choose one comedy that depicts what you wish adulthood could be, would you pick DUMB & DUMBER or GROSSE POINTE BLANK?

 
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FilmCouch #75 - The Happening: Finding Humor in Horror

Shyamalan’s THE HAPPENING succeeds as unintentional comedy, unlike similar films by his heroes, Spielberg’s DUEL and Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS, which are actually good.

 
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BlogNosh 06/16/08

Reason number #379 to kick myself for not seeing Speed Racer in a theater: Daniel Kasman’s latest entry at The Auteurs. It begins like this: “Upon return from Cannes, I saw two movies in rapid succession. The films probably should not be combined into any sort of synthetic criticism, but it is too tempting to [...]

FilmCouch #74 - Kung Fu: Self-Mastery or Self-Discovery?

Kung Fu Panda gets us wondering about discipline, maturity, and the very essence of kung fu itself!

 
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FilmCouch #72 - Karina on Cannes, Kevin on steroids

Cheating is fair, steroids are good for you, France loves Mike Tyson and the best films at Cannes weren’t in Cannes

 
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FilmCouch #71 - Indiana Jones and the Death Penalty

Wee haw! Indy’s back! What is it about that man no one can repeat? And a must-see documentary about a chaplain who stood in the death chamber with 95 death row inmates.

 
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FilmCouch #68 - Paranoia

Maybe you don’t feel paranoid, but a couple movies beg to differ as they look into our current culture of paranoia

 
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FilmCouch #67 - Wisdom of Kumar

Talking to Kumar, watching KUNG FU and finding a wise sage to explain what film is all about

 
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FilmCouch #66 - Care Bears and Iraq

The Care Bears, Iron Man and Morgan Spurlock are Hollywood’s new political mavericks

 
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FilmCouch #65 Indiewood mashup

If you’re visiting a theater and tired of the same old movie clichés, conventional wisdom would point you to the independent movie selection. However, a string on indiewood flicks–most recently The Visitor (opening tonight)–are caving in on their own “indie” clichés. Like rogue environmentalists tracking an invasive species in an Appalachian creek bed, we digest [...]

 
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