Name: Christopher Soden
Dateline: Dallas, Texas
Weblog: blogcritics.org/index.php
Articles: 28
First Published: Friday, May 12, 2006
Last Published: Sunday, April 1, 2007
Currently listing articles 28-1:
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Howie Mandell: Lord of the Maggots?— Deal or No Deal: Wouldn't it be more humane to auction off their internal organs?
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Pirate Jenny: Confessions of a Former Bookstore Employee— The Customer Service Army demands better customer service, but what about a group that demands better customers?
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Theater Review: Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man at Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas— What's a poor critic to do about a flawed but exhilarating high school production?
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The Practice and Boston Legal: A Miscarriage of Justice— Pro bonehead: David Kelley’s Boston Legal is a travesty of justice.
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Movie Review: Born into Brothels— The radiance, audacity, and clear-eyed authenticity of the shots they take are mind-boggling.
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Movie Review: Young Adam — The only danger to our nation’s youth is that it could, quite possibly, put them off sex forever.
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Movie Review: Prey for Rock and Roll— What bothers me is this very old and still prevalent presumption that queer folks must be damaged goods.
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Interview with Jonathan Caouette, Director of Tarnation— "The three weeks where I edited nonstop...were like this fiery, completely cathartic experience. It was thrilling, hilarious, devastating and very hard work.
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Movie Review: Tarnation
— Tarnation suggests that it’s not about deserving the life we get, but surviving it.
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Movie Review: Broadway: The Golden Age — Broadway has become a candy factory with empty whiz-bang special effects and canned music.
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Movie Review: Oldboy— It's as if a creator of grisly, Grand Guignol contemporary comic books were trying to explain philosophy in hyper-violent terms.
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Movie Review: Merchant of Venice (2004)— Is the film more than "Shylock: Whipping Boy for Ignorant Gentiles?"
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Movie Review: Assisted Living— Use the monkey, Mary.
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Movie Review: Gunner Palace— With this war documentary, less is more, more or less.
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DVD Review: Son Frere — A brilliant, excruciating film that feeds us the ashes of profound male estrangement without the radiance that precedes it.
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DVD Review: She Hate Me— Spike Lee is still clinging to the ridiculous myth that the right man (i.e. caring, tender, sensitive) can “cure” lesbianism.
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DVD Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow— Forward, into the past!
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DVD Review: The Jacket— Jack Starks initiates a quasi-spiritual journey in which he experiences deaths both great and small.
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DVD Review: My Life on Ice— The camera, neutral and persistent, enables him to grapple with hidden emotions because he is merely the transcriber.
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DVD Review: The 24th Day— Self-blame, self-loathing, and the elusive nature of "the truth" make for compelling drama in this tale.
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DVD Review: A Thousand Clouds of Peace— Director Hernandez’s skill at expressing coarse male idolatry, the empathy we feel for Gerardo’s ache and disconsolation, is a triumph of intuition and manifestation.
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DVD Review: O Fantasma— A rich, spellbinding celebration of raw male adolescent sexuality.
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DVD Review: Bush's Brain— Revenge of the Psycho-Nerd.
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DVD Review: Constantine— “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.”
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DVD Review: De-Lovely (2004)— Director Irwin Winkler hedges his bets.
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DVD Review: In My Country (2005)— Can In My Country's John Boorman manage the cinematic high ground?
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DVD Review: A Home at the End of the World— Colin Farrell's genuine performance cuts through a film that is often disingenous.
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DVD Review: Testosterone— A film that defends the right of queer men to be pricks as big as our straight brothers.
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