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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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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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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Paranormal Reality
I reviewed a couple of new paranormal reality shows for The A.V. Club:
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.)
Frontline: Fighting for Bin Laden
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
FILM
The AV Club’s Must-See SXSW Films
Some belated sequels to check out and some to avoid
Screen pass: 10 movies capture heart, humor of game America loves
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
And you can always find my latest A.V. Club stuff here.
Austin Film Festival
Yet another film festival I’m covering for The A.V. Club. Still ongoing, but so far:
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
Fantastic Fest 2010
Fantastic Fest is a genre film festival here in Austin, TX. I covered it for The A.V. Club thusly:
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
