By request I’m jumping ahead in my coverage of the 2007 LA Film Festival a little bit to mention the poolside chat at the W Hotel last night called Who Let the Blogs Out? Normally I like to write and rewrite until I’ve sucked the very life out of each and every post, but I’m under [...]
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Katherine Heigl, Leslie Mann, Seth Rogen and
Paul Rudd in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up (2007).
Early on in Judd Apatow’s new comedy Knocked Up, there is a scene featuring celebrity spokes-muppet Ryan Seacrest. Instantly, I was overcome by the desire to see the smarmy American Idol host repeatedly and forcefully kicked in the balls, preferably by the [...]
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Here are a few thoughts on the first couple days of the Los Angeles Film Festival:
The Year After (L’Année suivante). France 2006. Isabelle Czajka’s debut film stars Anaïs Demoustier as Emmanuelle, a 17-year-old girl whose life goes into a slow, year long tailspin following the death of her father. Trapped in the spiritual vacuum [...]
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