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June 21, 2011

Did I Really See That, Too?

It’s time now for another edition of Did I Really See That?, the beloved blog feature in which I dip into the vast archive of reviews I wrote about movies I can no longer remember seeing. Not only do I have no memory of seeing these three movies, I’m not even convinced they actually exist. But surely no one paid me to write reviews of nonexistent movies, although that would be a great gig if I could get it. I’ll just have to assume these are real.
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June 11, 2011

Alex Cox Double Feature



I always want to like the films of Alex Cox, but more often than not, it doesn’t work out that way. Maybe he gets a lifetime pass for Repo Man, or maybe I’m being too generous. This weekend I rented his two most recent features, one of which offers flashes of the good Alex Cox, the other of which should have him brought up on charges before a war crimes tribunal. (Yeah, so that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s the sort of overheated rhetoric Cox himself is prone to deploying in his weaker efforts.)
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June 10, 2011

Did I Really See That?

I reviewed hundreds of movies for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, most of which are no longer online, so it’s perhaps understandable that I have absolutely no memory of seeing some of them. In this new semi-regular feature (part of my latest desperate attempt to revive this blog), I will exhume some of these forgotten reviews from my archives, starting with three indies I don’t remember watching.
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June 9, 2011

Paranormal Reality

I reviewed a couple of new paranormal reality shows for The A.V. Club:

Haunted Collector

Finding Bigfoot

May 19, 2011

Return of the Living Blog

Hello! Boy, I sure have been neglecting this place of late. I’m gonna try to rectify that situation in the near future, but for now, here’s some of what I’ve been up to in the past few months:

TV CLUB

The Amazing Race (That’s my finale review, but I covered the whole season.)

Being Human (Ditto.)

Swamp Brothers

Frontline: Fighting for Bin Laden

Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe

Deadliest Catch

Top Shot

FILM

The AV Club’s Must-See SXSW Films

SXSW Opening Weekend

SXSW Film Day 4

SXSW Film Day 5

SXSW Film Day 6

SXSW Closing Weekend

Some belated sequels to check out and some to avoid

Screen pass: 10 movies capture heart, humor of game America loves

Five Questions with Jodie Foster

Why Woody Allen Should Direct Pirates of the Caribbean 5

October 27, 2010

Odds & Ends

A few more random offerings:

An Austinites’ guide to the Texas Rangers

On the possible demise of the Dobie Theater

Citizen Architect: A brainy doc from a Fort Worth-born producer

Fall movie preview

And you can always find my latest A.V. Club stuff here.

October 27, 2010

Austin Film Festival

Yet another film festival I’m covering for The A.V. Club. Still ongoing, but so far:

Must-see movies and can’t-miss panels

Opening night

Opening weekend

Day 5

Day 6

October 27, 2010

Caprica and other TV stuff

I’m covering the low-rated Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica for The A.V. Club’s TV section. The season so far:

Unvanquished
Retribution
Things We Lock Away
False Labor

I’ve also written about these other shows:

The Kilborn File
Last Comic Standing
Confessions: Animal Hoarding
Hard Knocks

October 27, 2010

Fantastic Fest 2010

Fantastic Fest is a genre film festival here in Austin, TX. I covered it for The A.V. Club thusly:

Horror Remakes

Must-See Films Unleashed

Day One

Weekend Recap

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

October 27, 2010

Top One Movies of the Weeks

And now, a series of posts in which I catch this blog up on stuff I’ve written in the past couple of months. First, the Nerve column once known as The Top One Movie of the Week, and then as The One Movie You Should See This Week, which was written by myself and Andrew Osborne, and will henceforth be written by each of us separately in alternating weeks. Did that make any sense? I thought not.

10/21: Paranormal Activity 2, Hereafter, Inhale

10/14: Jackass 3D, Red, Conviction

10/07: Life As We Know It, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Nowhere Boy

9/30: Let Me In, Freakonomics, The Social Network

9/23: Buried, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger

9/16: The Town, Catfish, Never Let Me Go

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