About

Name: David Winchell
Dateline: Philadelphia, PA
Weblog: mrwiz.wordpress.com [RSS]
Articles: 18
First Published: Monday, July 24, 2006
Last Published: Saturday, October 14, 2006
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David Winchell is a student at the University of Pennyslvania who enjoys reading and blogging politics, film, technology, and philosophy.
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Currently listing articles 18-1:

  1. Movie Review: Flags of Our Fathers

    — A thoughtful, brutal, meditation on heroism and all its attendant problems and inconsistencies from famed director Clint Eastwood.

    REVIEW in Video on October 14, 2006

  2. Music Review: Continuum - John Mayer

    — When Continuum succeeds, it does so spectacularly, enough to make it among the best albums released this year.

    REVIEW in Music on September 20, 2006

  3. Movie Review: The Last Kiss

    — Impossible to recommend, but there is plenty of uncharted territory in The Last Kiss for intrepid cinephiles to savor.

    REVIEW in Video on September 16, 2006

  4. Concert Review: John Mayer and Sheryl Crow, Philadelphia

    — Would I risk hearing loss and face overpriced concessions for naught?

    REVIEW in Music on September 04, 2006

  5. Movie Review: Network

    — A superbly constructed, uncomfortably realistic satire of the television industry.

    REVIEW in Video on August 24, 2006

  6. Movie Review: Snakes on a Plane

    — It's crude. It's gory. It gleefully travels well beyond traditional standards of decency. But it's also... quite a lot of fun.

    REVIEW in Video on August 18, 2006

  7. Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine

    — Faster than you can say "what an excuse for family bonding through heartwarmingly ridiculous episodic encounters with perfect strangers!" — the film is off and

    REVIEW in Culture on August 16, 2006

  8. Disproportionate Response?

    — The severity of the US response to yesterday's announcement of a foiled terrorist plot begs the question of what, exactly, demands this extreme level of

    OPINION in Politics on August 11, 2006

  9. DVD Review: Two Against Nature

    — This disc offers much of the fun of a Steely Dan concert experience, but with superior sonics and intimacy.

    REVIEW in Culture on August 11, 2006

  10. TimesSelect: Give It a Break

    — The inauspicious debut of the New York Times' TimesSelect program left many fuming. But things have changed.

    OPINION in Culture on August 05, 2006

  11. CD Review: A Wonderful World - Tony Bennett and k.d. lang

    — Bennett's brilliance makes it a magical experience even without the exceptional packaging we might have expected.

    REVIEW in Music on August 05, 2006

  12. DVD Review: 24 Hour Party People

    — Comedian Steve Coogan headlines an unconventional musical journey through the punk rock movement in Manchester.

    REVIEW in Video on August 02, 2006

  13. Movie Review: Miami Vice

    — Yes, the film really is breathtaking at times, but that's all it is. There isn't any more.

    REVIEW in Culture on July 31, 2006

  14. DVD Review: Pinky and The Brain, Vol. 1

    — The golden years of animation have come and gone, but their memory lives on in this release. Pinky and The Brain truly has something for

    REVIEW in Culture on July 29, 2006

  15. Thoughts on Citizen Kane

    — Many critics call it one of the best films ever made — or even the best — as evidenced in its 100% rating on Rotten

    OPINION in Culture on July 27, 2006

  16. DVD Review: Tristram Shandy

    — Would that more people had seen this gem while it was still in theatres.

    REVIEW in Culture on July 26, 2006

  17. The Critic, The People, and The Blockbuster

    — Is the "fun" of the blockbusters and all their accoutrements really enough to make seeing them a "forgone conclusion"?

    OPINION in Culture on July 25, 2006

  18. Movie Review: A Scanner Darkly

    — A scathing condemnation of drug culture and addiction.

    REVIEW in Culture on July 24, 2006

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