3 things about J.J. Abrams’ STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

Posted on May 26, 2013 by robchristopher

Star Trek Into Darkness [2013]

1. James T. Perfect-hair.
2. The crunching of the cranium.
3. Quoting Obama: “That’s not who we are.”

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3 things about John Huston’s HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON

Posted on May 25, 2013 by robchristopher

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison [1957]

1. Deborah Kerr says, “Poop.”
2. He eyes the creature warily.
3. As he’s being carried away in a stretcher, she helps him smoke a cigarette.

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3 things about Olivier Assayas’ CARLOS (PART THREE)

Posted on May 19, 2013 by robchristopher

Carlos [2010]

1. He lectures her on her lack of discipline.
2. Surgery to relieve an inflamed testicle. But liposuction first.
3. “You are on French territory.”

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3 things about Greg Mottola’s PAUL

Posted on May 18, 2013 by robchristopher

Paul [2011]

1. “She was furry nice.”
2. In less than thirty seconds she runs the gamut of getting stoned.
3. An alien hoses the blood off the jetway.

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3 things about Olivier Assayas’ CARLOS (PART TWO)

Posted on May 18, 2013 by robchristopher

Carlos [2010]

1. She storms off to the back of the plane and pummels a row of seats.
2. Wine from teacups.
3. “It’s all there, if you read between the lines.”

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Totally tubular.

Posted on May 15, 2013 by robchristopher

I’m probably a little too excited about it, but I’m pretty pleased with a post I just wrote about the upcoming “Date with the ’80s” series at the Siskel Film Center. Cowabunga!

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3 things about François Ozon’s IN THE HOUSE

Posted on May 14, 2013 by robchristopher

In the House [2012]

1. After they invite him to their basketball game, he displays just the right amount of hesitation.
2. She doesn’t understand the poem. Germain is delighted by Claude’s ingenuity.
3. On a grid, a moving tableaux of stories unfolding.

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Facebook it.

Posted on May 13, 2013 by robchristopher

Well, why not?

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3 things about Michael Radford’s NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

Posted on May 13, 2013 by robchristopher

Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]

1. The tobacco promptly falls out of his cigarette.
2. O’Brien looks at Winston wearily and says, “They got me a long time ago.”
3. He moves the knight; a few moments later, he puts it back again.

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3 things about Olivier Assayas’ CARLOS (PART ONE)

Posted on May 13, 2013 by robchristopher

Carlos [2010]

1. He is given a handgun, and five bullets.
2. After showering, he admires himself in a full-length mirror and walks over to the window. On the TV is a news story about him.
3. They hurriedly corral some hostages into the washroom, the same one they used a few moments before.

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