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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: The Avengers

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Saturday, June 30, 2012. Cast: Robert Downey, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston. Have you ever seen Ruby in Paradise, the 1993 North Florida indie that brought Ashley Judd to prominence? There’s a scene where the uncomplicated runaway Ruby drags her pretentious bookstore boyfriend to an alien invasion movie. He storms out of the screening. How can you watch this junk, he demands. The plot involves a struggle to gain control of a blue interdimens...

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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: April 2012

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Monday, April 23, 2012. Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Wes Bentley, Donald Sutherland. These are essentially stories of the risks of opulence, how wealthy societies are built on this sort of cruelty and exploitation. Violent spectacle is seen as the dark payment for a vital but oppressive society. The suggestion is that civilization is little more than a sophisticated decoration of the primitive instinct. But does The Hunger Games get this right?

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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: June 2012

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Saturday, June 30, 2012. Cast: Jared Gilman, Kara Heyward, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton. Tracing them are a flock of kind but broken adults – the sadsack parents (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand), a lone pokey policeman (Bruce Willis), a teacher who wishes he could be a scout master every day (Ed Norton). There is also a social services worker, dressed in electric blue, who has been so consumed by adulthood that she no longer has a ...This pa...

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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: Moonrise Kingdom

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Saturday, June 30, 2012. Cast: Jared Gilman, Kara Heyward, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton. Tracing them are a flock of kind but broken adults – the sadsack parents (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand), a lone pokey policeman (Bruce Willis), a teacher who wishes he could be a scout master every day (Ed Norton). There is also a social services worker, dressed in electric blue, who has been so consumed by adulthood that she no longer has a ...This pa...

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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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Monday, January 20, 2014. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Cast: Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh. The shadows for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Fall over the movie and the actors themselves. When did Kevin Costner become an old man? What happened to Keira Knightley’s rise to stardom? Why has a relaunch of Tom Clancy’s heroic CIA analyst fallen into the January dump period, especially when it, at least, is not a disaster? And The Sum of All Fears. But it doesn...

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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014. The Grand Budapest Hotel. The Grand Budapest Hotel. Cast : Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Jeff Goldblum, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Wilkinson, Mathieu Amalric, Lea Seydoux, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson. Can we just sweep words like “quirky” and “whimsy” under the bed? The pleasant acceptance of The Grand Budapest Hotel. It moves backwards in time (1985, 1968,...

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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: The Dark Knight Rises

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Sunday, July 29, 2012. The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight Rises. Cast: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Michael Cane, Morgan Freeman. If Inception found Christopher Nolan debating whether to surrender, Tarkovsky-like, the real world for the deepest levels of imagination, The Dark Knight Rises finds Nolan already having taken the plunge. When peasant kangaroo courts manned by maniacs belt out ice-water justice to balding stockbrokers? How s...

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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: Beasts of the Southern Wild

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Sunday, July 29, 2012. Beasts of the Southern Wild. Beasts of the Southern Wild. Cast: Quvenshane Wallis, Dwight Henry. I probably shouldn’t write about Beasts of the Southern Wild since I walked out in the middle of it. I didn’t really expect to write anything about it at all. But here I am. So what do I have to say about it, finally? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bowen's Cinematic (no, not me). New York Times Movie Page. The Screening Room (DMN movie blog). When the Dead Walk the Earth. K Bowen i...

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Anti-dis-arts-and-entertainmentism: Draft Day

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Cast: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Frank Langella, Ellen Burstyn. So when the Seattle Seahawks go looking for a sucker to trade the No. 1 pick in Ivan Reitman’s Draft Day. Oooookay. To pass on a golden-arm quarterback prospect because of something that might have happened at a birthday party? Football nuts will see Draft Day as a cartoon. Browns fans might suspect it’s a docudrama. It doesn’t come across here. Somewhere along the line, Rajiv Joseph (a Pullitzer ...