Sweet Emulsion
Aloha
Go Away: An Introduction
The Grease Trap
2008 Films (by grade) (added: Standard Operating Procedure (A), Redbelt (A-), The Forbidden Kingdom (C), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (B), Where In The World Is Osama? (D+), Zombie Strippers (D), Chaos Theory (C-), Prom Night (D-), The Flight Of The Red Balloon (B), Leatherheads (B-), My Blueberry Nights (B), The Ruins (C), 21 (C-), Boarding Gate (B-), Shutter (D+), Pathology (B-))
2007 Films (by grade)
2006 Films
(by grade)
2005 Films (by grade)
2004 Films (by grade)
Toronto Film Festival
2004
2003 Films
(by grade)
Toronto Film Festival
2003
2002 Films
(by grade)
2002 Comments
Toronto Film
Festival 2002
2001 Films
(by grade)
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club blog
Varsity Blues
2004
Toronto International Film Festival
2003 Toronto International
Film Festival
2002 Toronto International
Film Festival
2001 Toronto International
Film Festival
2000 Toronto International
Film Festival
1999 Toronto International
Film Festival
Les Destinées Sentimentales
The Gene Siskel Film
Center
Music Box Theatre
Doc Films
Facets
Block
Cinema
Friends, Cypriot, Countrymen
*If the look of this site seems familiar, it’s because I blatantly
ripped off Mike D’Angelo’s The
Man Who Viewed Too Much, my default homepage for the past several years.
He also rocks the pages of Esquire and Las Vegas Weekly, and
plays poker like this.
*Remember
the episode of The Simpsons where a health-conscious Homer compresses
a pound of spaghetti into "bar form"? Consider the capsules at Theo’s
Century Of Movies, an elegant shorthand that squeezes volumes into a tight
space.
*A blogging crossfire: On the right, Victor
Morton from the Washington Times, the only hardline Catholic moralist you'll
meet who loved (or, for that matter, saw) Irreversible. On the left,
Ryan Wu, a law-talking
guy whose passion for cinema, the Red Sox, and civil liberties speak to a deep,
doomed romanticism.
*More blogs! My dear friend Donna
Bowman—full-time theology professor, part-time critic for The Nashville
Scene and The Onion A.V. Club, and all-the-time wonderful—shares
her wisdom on the things that interest her, which is to say everything.
And if that's not cosmopolitan enough for you, there's Missy
Schwartz, undisputed queen of the urbanites.
*In a startlingly monastic feat of web construction, Michael
Sicinski appears to have quietly developed his site for two or three years
before blindsiding everyone with an embarrassment of riches. Fortunately, he'll
have plenty of time to continue his alternately informal and academic musings
on narrative and experimental cinema now that he lives in the artless backwater
of Syracuse, NY.
*My friend and fellow Chicagoan J. Robert
Parks has launched a new film blog. I wonder if he can find the time between
teaching, tutoring, and freelancing to update it frequently, but he's off to
a rousing start. (It's a marathon, not a sprint bud—this site, for example,
was pretty much dead after a few months.)
*Alt-weekly circuiteers will remember Steve Erickson’s work from
such publications as The Nashville Scene, The Chicago Reader,
The Boston Phoenix, and City Pages . But he also writes the occasional
long-player for his Chronicle
Of A Passion website, which also includes extensive links and a selection
of Serge Daney’s translated criticism.
*Charles Odell dedicates most of his weekends to devouring the New York
film scene, and then grades the shit out of them at the Chateau
du Cinema.
*Not only is Bryant Frazer’s
Deep Focus the snazziest personal website around, he also writes excellent
long reviews, with a special taste for cult and lowdown genre fare.
*Austin…may be known…for an excitable hype-ster who would of
[sic] made sweet love to Guillermo del Toro’s Blade
II if it were possible, but I’d rather split a plate of ribs with Greg
Murphy or Mark Pittillo.
*Scott Renshaw retired his hugely popular The Screening Room website
for the cash-in he deserved at the Salt
Lake City Weekly.
*Inspired by my own half-assed attempts to launch a site, my Kubrick-loving
pal Zach Ralston has added commentary
to his rapidly gelling work-in-progress.
*What the hell was the Academy thinking? Ask Ken
Rudolph, member of the foreign-language committee for over two decades.
His site features thoughtful, obsessive journals every year on Outfest, AFI,
the behemoth Seattle International Film Festival, and an inside look at the
foreign-language screening process.
*You can’t talk about the current state of American film criticism
without mentioning The Chicago Reader’s Jonathan
Rosenbaum, whose provocative work puts him at the center of any debate.
*A Paulette and proud of it, New York Magazine’s David
Edelstein litters his cutting criticism with turns-of-phrase that make me
want to hang up the skates.
River Rats
* So yeah, I play some cards online. Here's where: PokerStars
(as stobias1) coughed up back-to-back WSOP winners in Chris Moneymaker and Greg
Raymer, and it may be the best overall site, especially for SNG and multi-table
tourneys with excellent blind structures. If you want to play against (or just
harass) professionals like Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, and many
others, Full Tilt Poker (as steamy
mctilt) offers remarkable access, though the level of play is notably less fishy
than other sites. Also FTP offers delightful cartoon avatars, Razz, and private
H.O.R.S.E. tournaments. When I'm not using my wife's PC, I'm limited to PokerRoom
(as stobias1), the only Mac-friendly site out there. The SNG tournaments have
too speedy a blind structure—though not as bad as PartyPoker, which is
criminal—but the players are really weak. People will call off their life's
savings with second pair here.
* When they're not whining about bad beats and calling each
other donkeys, the poker forums on a few sites are actually pretty useful. The
book publisher 2+2 hosts the most well-regarded forum,
though it can be frustrating to navigate. In addition to his blog, pro Daniel
Negreanu also sponsors a forum, which is naturally loaded with DN fanboys,
only a few of whom know what they're talking about.
* In addition to Negreanu, there are a number of other pro
sites/blogs out there: Yale grad and unashamed "math guy" Matt Matros'
The Making Of A Poker Player deviates from other poker strategy books
in that it actually contains some prose. Like the book, his indispensible online
journal details hands and
situations that he's actually experienced, rather than discussing them in the
abstract. Dot-com millionaire Paul
Phillips keeps a hugely entertaining blog, in which he devotes a lot of
energy to razzing Phil Hellmuth. Microsoft Word founder Richard
"Quiet Lion" Brodie doesn't need to take another dime from anyone,
but he's a frequent online and tournament regular, and an affable guy to boot.
High-stakes cash game player Barry
Greenstein, also known as "the Robin Hood of poker" for giving
his tournament winnings to charity, hosts a site in which he cooly assesses
the abilities of fellow professionals and even assigns them each a theme song.
Few players are more reviled than Dutch
Boyd, the slickster who founded "The Crew" and allegedly ripped
off many in a failed internet poker venture, but he maintains a riveting train-wreck
of a blog, which actually wins the poor cat-drowning prodigy some sympathy in
my eyes. And speaking of slicksters, Antonio
Esfandiari's site must be seen to be believed (check out the "rocks
and rings" section).
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