Name: A. Horbal
Dateline: Pittsburgh, PA
Weblog: www.andyhorbal.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 34
First Published: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Currently listing articles 34-1:
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Movie Review: Mystery at Mansfield Manor— Mystery at Mansfield Manor is a step in the right direction towards a more creative, a more diverse cinema
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Book Review: The Film Snob*s Dictionary— Much fun is had skewering the eponymous Film Snob, but the book's real intent is to celebrate neglected cinematic treasures.
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Movie Review: Cars— Cars doesn't quite succeed in breathing life into a new world. But if only all failures looked so good!
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The Cardinal Sin of Film Criticism— A. Horbal on the one error critics must avoid at all costs.
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Website Review: Criticker - Crunching the Numbers— Personalized film recommendation engine, Criticker, matches you with critics with tastes similar to your own.
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Movie Review: X-Men: The Last Stand— X-Men: The Last Stand is fast, fun, and unpredictable — qualities that have been lacking in the season's movies thus far.
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Movie Review: The Beauty Academy of Kabul— A good subject, provided it's treated competently, can redeem an otherwise unexceptional film. Thus is the case with Liz Mermin's documentary The Beauty Academy of
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The Future of Film Criticism
— One humble, young, Internet-based critic's thoughts on the state of film criticism.
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Online Shorts Digest: No. 1 - Why I Love Animation— These are some animated shorts that I've been enjoying online: Anything live action can do, animation can do better. And cheaper!
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Movie Review: Poseidon— A perfectly serviceable disaster flick, but it's remarkable only for the extent to which it's unremarkable.
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Movie Review: Awesome; I F***in' Shot That!— It will satisfy fans, but it's unlikely to impress the casual moviegoer or to win the group any converts.
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Movie Review: Friends with Money— Like a cup of chamomile tea that contains a drop of arsenic, Friends with Money is not easy to digest.
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Movie Review: Joyeux Noël— This French film serves up a heady brew made from a poignant mix of gladness and grief...
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Movie Review: American Dreamz— American Dreamz is, in the end, simply a mess.
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Movie Review: Silent Hill— Silent Hill is as interesting as it is imperfect.
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Movie Review: I Am a Sex Addict— I Am a Sex Addict is a prime example of the film essay, a form seen far too infrequently in American theaters.
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Movie Review: Don't Come Knocking— The film attempts to explore the impact that the legacy of the Western has had on the American West.
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Pittsburgh Film Preview: May 2006— Pittsburgh film highlights for May 2006.
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Movie Review: Ice Age: The Meltdown— Like the first Ice Age, The Meltdown's slow pace is punctuated too infrequently by laughter or surprise.
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Movie Review: Duck Season— This film is predicated on the notion that a day doesn't have to be extraordinary to be interesting.
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Movie Review: Find Me Guilty— Here is a film simultaneously fascinating and tedious, that starts your mind working even as it bores you to tears.
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Movie Review: Thank You for Smoking— The only substantive idea I can find in the movie is that Washington is totally, irredeemably corrupt. That's not very substantive.
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Movie Review: The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade— If we really hope for a new world, perhaps it's time we abandoned these old models of storytelling.
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The Lost Film Festival— Beibin describes The Lost Film Festival as a "more inclusive" form of film exhibition, and to some extent he's right.
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Movie Review: Fast Film— An impressive and inventive short film that lends itself to a staggering variety of discussions.
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Movie Review: Tsotsi— Tsotsi is the second film this year to remind me of Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc.
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Movie Review: Slither— There's a special kind of high that comes only from a well-executed genre film, especially if it's in a genre you grew up with.
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Movie Review: Fateless— This Hungarian film represents the Holocaust in a way that I've never seen before, a way that I found devastatingly effective.
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Movie Review: What Barry Says
— This animation is not subtle, but it is surprisingly cogent for such a short film.
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Movie Review: Ask the Dust— I can see how one half or the other might appeal to someone, but not both.
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Movie Review: Manderlay— Like a slasher pic for intellectuals.
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Movie Review - Night Watch— Night Watch might portend better things to come, but it is itself only a curiosity.
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Movie Review - Neil Young: Heart of Gold— If you like Neil Young you might enjoy this movie. But it didn't do much for me personally.
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Movie Review: V for Vendetta— What's being subverted here: contemporary American political values or the supposed "anarchist" politics of the film?
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