Category: 2007
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There Will Be Blood (2007) – Review
When he was promoting his solo album Nothing Like the Sun, Sting gave an interview to Rolling Stone. One of the questions he was asked was why he had turned away from the type of music he had made with The Police, and instead towards what the interviewer seemed to criticize as “art rock”, to…
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Reel 74: The Wages of Greed
Sure, Gordon Gekko told us all that greed, for lack of a better term, is good. And that film sometimes takes the blame for a bunch of unfortunate things that took place in the 1990s. But there are films out there which note that there’s a darker side to greed (and, to be fair, Wall…
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Reel 56: Only Connect
See? Weren’t you promised an episode with this title a while back? We do the fan service pretty well, methinks. (Also, I don’t have an especially good reason for it, but I kind of like the artwork on this episode.) This time around, “Only Connect” is a rather ironic title, because the films we’re looking…
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Reel 45: Before the Revolution
I know the matching doesn’t quite work but I still like the way the cover art for this one came out. We’re back on track, episode number-wise. And in this case we’re looking at a couple of periods in time that aren’t very far apart. Despite their relative closeness on the calendar, they each represent…
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Reel 42: Off-Beat Musical Biopics
Biographical films are always tricky to navigate, largely because they need to choose a point of view to work from. For instance, when talking with other people about the recent biopic Elvis, some viewers were disappointed that we didn’t get to see Elvis Presley eating one of his weird sandwiches, or that we didn’t get…
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Reel 7: Sorkinfest, Part 2
Aaaand, we’re finally back, thank goodness. SorkinFest continues with the two films that Aaron Sorkin wrote after his series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was cancelled after only one season. (Interestingly, the same people who seemed kind of disappointed in Studio 60 as it aired are viewing it a little more generously in retrospect.)…