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DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS / THE ROAD
THE BOOK OF ELI / UP IN THE AIR
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DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
SHERLOCK HOLMES / BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL – NEW ORLEANS / SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION / BEARD / NASHVILLE SCENE / PUTNEY SWOPE / ROBERT POWELL / WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE
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SPECIAL GUESTS: GLENN KENNY / ARMOND WHITE
DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
AVATAR / JAMES CAMERON / SILENT RUNNING / 3D / ROBERT ZEMECKIS / WALL-E USED CARS / XENOGENESIS / SUMMER HOURS / A SERIOUS MAN / STAR TREK / THIS IS IT / CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE / NEVELDINE AND TAYLOR / NEXT DAY AIR / PRECIOUS / LEE DANIELS / BELOVED
Are you blue? I am.
Peaceful, calm, kind. Hurt me, though,
And I’ll f*** you up.
Life is hard, you know.
We need to love each other.
Let’s kill some guys first.
3-D, amazing.
Writing, not so much. Ethics?
Unobtaini-ed.
* We’ll be recording our ‘Avatar‘ show tomorrow; and, for the record, let me say that the scepticism outlined above does not represent the entirety of my response to the film/entertainment/spectacle/industrial experiment, which I found to be alternately wonder-inducing, headache-inspiring, politically fascinating, and overlong. For now, let the record show: ‘Avatar’ is striving to occupy an almost unique philosophical space in blockbuster cinema.
There’s an infinite amount of content out there Dear Reader – too many movies to possibly see – so how do ya find the good ones?
Your gut feeling, your friends, reviewers you trust – these folks can steer you. But sometimes your gut is wrong, your friends wouldn’t know a Ti West film from a Western and the reviewer you’ve been consulting is Ben Lyons.
So – to help you out – I present here films you may have not seen due to the bad ‘word on the street’ – well, the ‘word’ was wrong my friends – here are the 10 Most Underrated Films of the Decade:
