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The Super Mother 'Bug' On DVD
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... Read the rest of my "Bug" review here. ...
Sweeney Sings
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... all you "musicals are dumb" people and stop equating the genre soley with "Phantom of the Opera" or whatever you're doing) anyway...does the studio hope they can trick people into thinking the picture's not full of song? If so, I really hope they stop. See what that kind of trickery did for William Friedkin's Tracey Letts' adapted "Bug"? ...
The Passion of the Self-Important Cinephile... and DVD Shorts
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... is deceptive in more ways than its plot. It lures you in with the connection of these characters, ramps things up with the threat of the unknown, and then ends up becoming a breathless thriller in a totally unexpected way by the end. There are strange transformation and oddities throughout. Interestingly, when I first saw it, I wasn't "into" the movie for much of the running time in the sense that I would consciously praise of it. I was strangely compelled, but not really certain of why. But I was downright shaken by the final 20 minutes, when people start losing lives as result of the world that that Agnes and Peter have built together. It's poignant and sympathetic, and contrary to what many critics have said, it ends perfectly. This is a movie that hits you hard initially, and then crawls around in your head long after it's over. But enough from me; Kim Morgan's review of is far more insightful and pe ...
Blogosphere Multiplex: Kim Morgan, Sunset Gun
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... As per current films, I was nutty over I Heart Huckabees (if that counts as current). I went to that movie over and over and over again. It wasn’t just that it was brilliant, or that it merged some of my favorite things in the world: perfectly timed screwball comedy, existential philosophy and Lily Tomlin, but it was gorgeously filmed and scored in this bittersweet, off kilter way that got me in all these mysterious places. Zodiac, Bug and The Darjeeling Limited were also on that level. And I want that train car in Darjeeling. ...
