Safe As Milk » film http://www.falfa.com/blog Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:46:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 new Scott Pilgrim vs. The World trailer http://www.falfa.com/blog/2010/06/01/new-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-trailer/ http://www.falfa.com/blog/2010/06/01/new-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-trailer/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:11:06 +0000 falfa http://www.falfa.com/blog/?p=2509 This makes me happy because it looks like they really went for it.

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The Last Detail

It’s quiet and mumbly like a lot of 70′s movies, but I liked it well enough. Nicholson’s moustache is World-Class, too.

Here’s a clip with one of the more famous scenes from the movie:

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For me, there is a place for mass-produced American beer in a can: the softball field. It’s tough to run around the field in July with a gullet full of Lagunitas Dog Town Pale Ale. Believe me, I’ve tried.

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]]> http://www.falfa.com/blog/2009/10/09/race-across-the-sky/feed/ 1 “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” http://www.falfa.com/blog/2009/10/06/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/ http://www.falfa.com/blog/2009/10/06/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:37:55 +0000 falfa http://www.falfa.com/blog/?p=2330 Watched “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” tonight on DVD because Netflix streaming was down (no Dillon Panthers for me). It’s a solid heist picture with some neat twists that were probably a lot neater in the 70′s. I was entertained by all of the analog tech. I love Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw so I was well sold on this from the opening credits. The soundtrack was pretty great, too. It’s better than 6 wolfs so I’ll go 7, but it just makes the 7-cut.

]]> http://www.falfa.com/blog/2009/10/06/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/feed/ 0 Playing catchup on the movie front. http://www.falfa.com/blog/2009/09/28/playing-catchup-on-the-movie-front/ http://www.falfa.com/blog/2009/09/28/playing-catchup-on-the-movie-front/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:43:34 +0000 falfa http://www.falfa.com/blog/?p=2324 “I Love You, Man” – I like Paul Rudd and Jason Segel a lot and they came through for me in this one. It wasn’t jam-packed with jokes like The Hangover, but there were one or two that had me hitting pause to compose myself. I am also an unapologetic Jaime Pressly fan. It’s an easy six wolfs.

“Smart People” – This was not a good movie. It had people in it I generally like, but there just wasn’t anything here I would say I enjoyed. Two Wolfs.

“Nick And Nora’s Infinite Playlist” – I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this. I am super-skeptical when it looks like a movie is engineered for my demographic but Michael Cera and Kat Dennings were so disarming that the engineering became invisible and I was able to just enjoy the movie. It’s light but it’s good and Bishop Allen showed up in the middle. Proper. Six solid wolfs.

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As an unabashed Jack White fan and a late-in-life fan of Led Zeppelin, It Might Get Loud is right in my wheelhouse.

Mercy.

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I bought “I Love You, Beth Cooper” last summer because of the Evan Dorkin cover. I like Evan Dorkin a lot and I figured that he wouldn’t draw a book cover for some jackass. Michelle read it first and said that it’s way more of a screenplay in prose form than a novel. Turns out we were both right. Larry Doyle wrote a funny “madcap teen romp” that was a quick, light read and now it’s a movie starring Hayden Panettiere.

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I give it 7 solid wolfs. Out of a possible 10.

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