Name: David Wester
Weblog: electroshadow.blogspot.com
Articles: 23
First Published: Monday, October 31, 2005
Last Published: Friday, August 18, 2006
Currently listing articles 23-1:
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Movie Review: Snakes on a Plane— Snakes on a Plane has the good sense to provide the titular snakes on the titular plane and not much else.
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Movie Review: Eraserhead— This is movie heaven and everything is fine.
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Movie Review: It Waits— It Tries!
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DVD Review: House of the Dead— The image was properly exposed, in focus, and, failing that, the audio was intelligible. Otherwise: bland awfulness.
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Pat Robertson Denies Getting Hangnail— Asked if he had ever gotten sick or even felt any discomfort, he replied, "No, that's what happens to sinners like Ariel Sharon."
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Movie Review: King Kong (2005)— Fantastic, despite some unfortunate choices and excess.
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DVD Review: King Kong (1933)— ...
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DVD Review: The Time of the Wolf— A powerful, bleak, and unsparing post-apocalyptic tale.
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DVD Review: Bringing Up Baby— This is an utterly charming movie and a funny one at that.
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Movie Review: Capote— A great biopic, finding exactly the right tone to elucidate the inner life of the person it’s focusing on.
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DVD Review: The Comedians of Comedy— An extremely funny documentary about four comedians on the road.
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DVD Review: Murder, My Sweet— A fun mystery/noir movie with a compelling lead performance by Dick Powell.
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DVD Review: L'Avventura— It’s well acted, well observed, and well written
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DVD Review: Sex, Lies, and Videotape— It’s almost as if a dumb American comedy about marriage, infidelity, and sex was forced to look deep inside itself.
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DVD Review: Day for Night— A pleasing, well-told soap opera.
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DVD Review - Q: the Winged Serpent— Q is good fun, a monster movie in the classic mold.
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DVD Review: Bad Company— As far as revisionist Westerns go, this is pretty nice.
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DVD Review: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia— The title alone makes this one worth watching.
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DVD Review: The Endurance— The Endurance is beautiful, but sterile.
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DVD Review: Gerry— Gerry is a breathtaking film, demanding in its simplicity and its persistence.
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DVD Review: Walkabout— ...a keenly observed movie about the clash of two very different cultures and its inevitable consequences.
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DVD Review: Little Otik— Little Otik is, for the majority of its running time, a wonderful film, fantastically conceived and executed with some really fun stop-motion effects to boot.
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DVD Review: Lost in La Mancha— While it is a worthwhile film to watch, it never quite achieves a scope beyond “best DVD extra ever”
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