January 2011
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Tough Crowd with Barb: Winter's Bone
Barb just called in her review of Winter’s Bone and I scribbled a bunch of notes in my work notebook to capture her thoughts on this 2011 Best Picture Nominee, a film I am truly in awe of.
Here is her submitted review: “Life’s tough. Kids are cute. Men are generally assholes.” Unflinching, as usual.
She then went on to explain, “I couldn’t figure it out for...
BLACK SWANSON GOES MAINSTREAM! →
Movieline loves Black Swanson!
Video of my dream man, Ron Swanson/Nick Offerman... →
I will fight you, Mulally.
She’s all, “HAHA that dude put a baby in me with... →
I’m writing the In Theaters column every week for The Playlist now, and as you can see, my two Dads (my affectionate nickname for the two main guys who run the site) give me a lot of freedom and encouragement to be totally balls to the wall nuts with it. This sentence is my favorite thing I wrote this week. I’m such a weird perv.
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Tough Crowd with Barb: The Fighter
This weeks edish of “Tough Crowd” features the acclaimed David O. Russell film The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale. Firstly, the three Walshes were collectively blown away by the film, I think it is the best of the year, fo sho, except maybe outside of Mother, and I’m not sure if that counts as 2009 or 2010. We all decided it is better than True Grit and The...
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Tough Crowd with Barb
So I’ve decided to start documenting my mother’s film reviews because they are too magical not to share, and we cannot hide her light under a bushel. The thing about my mom watching movies is that she sees everything from her own perspective and doesn’t really suspend disbelief enough to just enjoy the storytelling. Which is fine, nothing wrong with that at all. A good way to...