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	‘The Losers’ Are Winners By Frederik Sisa @ 11:00 AM April 23, 2010 Found in: Film It must be true that “The Losers” started life as a groundbreaking comic book; I’ve never heard of it. Or perhaps “groundbreaking” is merely the buzzword of an enthusiastic publicity department. read
	Larry and Burt’s Gut Rot: Better Than Beer By Frederik Sisa @ 2:00 PM April 02, 2010 Found in: Film The brothers Butler return with a sense of humour that, like a dirty martini, is bone dry, liable to kick your teeth in, and generously dosed with comical vulgarity. In the format of their latest venture, a web series called Larry and Burt’s Gut Rot (http://www.subprod.com/?p=219), it works especially well, better even than in their compelling but somewhat unfocused film effort The Notorious Newman Brothers.read
	Powerful New Black Panther Documentary Debuts in Culver City By Jasmyne A. Cannick @ 2:00 PM March 25, 2010 Found in: Film read
	Alice in Wonderland: Burton and Carroll, Together at Last By Frederik Sisa @ 4:00 PM March 12, 2010 Found in: Film As far as Tim Burton fans were concerned, there might as well have been a little white rabbit in a waistcoat wearing Mickey Mouse ears running around the director exclaiming, “You’re late, you’re late!” And so it seems that this pairing of the visionary Burton and Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasia was a long time coming. At last, the moment to fall down the rabbit hole has arrived. This may not be the definitive cinematic Alice, if such a beast is even possible, but we are nonetheless well-treated to an imaginatively realized Wonderland sumptuously filtered through Burton from the pages of the original books and Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations.read
	‘A Serious Man’: Serious About Questions, But Not About Answers By Frederik Sisa @ 2:00 PM February 26, 2010 Found in: Film Note: In anticipation of the Oscars, the following is a review of a best picture nominee missed during its original theatrical run. We join, without fanfare, a life in progress as physics Prof. Larry Gopnick experiences what is euphemistically described as a “rough patch.”read
	Inglourious Basterds: Revenge Without Glory…or Humanity By Frederik Sisa @ 12:00 PM February 19, 2010 Found in: Film Note: In anticipation of the Oscars, the following is a review of a best picture nominee missed during its original theatrical run. read
	Valentine’s Day: Sweet Candy, Empty Box By Frederik Sisa @ 9:00 AM February 12, 2010 Found in: Film What is it about Los Angeles that eludes filmmakers? Of the many attempts to capture the urban character of this fair metropolis, only two come to mind that achieve any sort of success: Swingers and L.A. Story, both of which deliver the city’s foibles, and qualities, with a knowing wink. read
	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: A Mirror Wonderland By Frederik Sisa @ 9:00 AM January 29, 2010 Found in: Film It almost seems unfair to frame a discussion of Terry Gilliam’s latest foray into the depths of phantasmagoria with Heath Ledger’s death, but there it is, haunting the film ts the close of a career defined by high-voltage performances in “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Dark Knight.” Much fuss has been made of Gilliam’s solution to salvaging the performance, recasting only those parts existing within a mirror-bound mindscape with not one but three actors: Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell. read
	Avatar: Nobody Home In These Beautiful Bodies By Frederik Sisa @ 10:00 AM January 22, 2010 Found in: Film read
	Leap Year: Skip It By Frederik Sisa @ 4:00 PM January 15, 2010 Found in: Film According to the rom-com guide to romance, the surest way for a man to win the heart of a woman he doesn’t know he loves begins with acting like a jerk. Then, at the right moment, he can reveal the soft underbelly beneath his prickly exterior, thereby confirm that what women truly want is a bad boy who isn’t really so bad provided a womanly influence, intentional or not, draws out the domestic tendencies lurking deep inside. Poppycock.read

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