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April 11th, 2008 | No Comments
They filmed part of Smart People in my building. Lots of my fellow grad students managed to catch a glimpse of Dennis Quaid. I didn’t, because I sort of didn’t care enough to go look.
Supersize Me
May 26th, 2006 | No Comments
Director: Morgan Spurlock
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As I mentioned in my review of Fast Food Nation, I was having a McDonald’s craving the whole time I was watching this movie. The movie promotes the idea that McDonald’s is addictive, and I guess my craving would be evidence for that.
For those who don’t know the premise, Morgan Spurlock eats nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days straight, just to see what will happen to him. What happens is that his health goes south very quickly and reaches a point that doctors suggest is quite dangerous.
Morgan unabashedly hits McDonald’s from all sides with art, humor, statistics, interns, his vegan girlfriend, and a small army of doctors and other experts. The DVD special feature involving the magically non-rotting fries is highly amusing, if obviously aimed at getting you to associate McDonald’s food with mold, slime, and other forms of inedible disgustingness.
Kinsey
March 18th, 2006 | No Comments
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney
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Watching this movie made me thankful that I live in a post-sexual revolution era and made me deeply frightened that there are people in this country who very much want to return to a time when people got married without knowing where babies came from and when consummating your marriage was both emotionally and physically painful.
Kinsey is the story of Alfred C. Kinsey, aka “Prokâ€, the famed sex researcher who is often credited with inspiring the sexual revolution. Overall, I think it handles a delicate subject pretty well. The film doesn’t shy away from any taboo subjects, but it also doesn’t cross the line into being obscene for obscenity’s sake.
