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Monday, March 30, 2009

This Week in the Film Section

Posted by on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:41 PM

A bunch of things and stuff:

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Evan Stewart on Monsters vs. Aliens:

The movie is packed with bright colors, stupid jokes, and very little downtime, as well as some mindless 3-D showing off to keep kids glued to the screen (3-D is like child catnip). Adults, however, will have less to rave about. The film is loaded with pop-culture references (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dr. Strangelove, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes) that will probably be lost on the young ones and were obviously thrown in for the parents. But beyond the initial, "Oh, hey, that's from The Fly," they fail to materialize into anything interesting.

Paul Constant on Tokyo Sonata:

Meet the Sasakis: Ryuhei (Teruyuki Kagawa), a downsized salaryman, spends his unemployed days wandering aimlessly around Tokyo, a ghost dressed in a suit and tie (he can't bring himself to tell his family that he's got no job). His wife, Megumi (Kyoko Koizumi), chafes at the constraints of a housewifely existence in a home with older children. One son, Takashi, has signed up for the U.S. Army to fight in Iraq. The other son, Kenji, wants to play piano all the time. The movie progresses at a pleasant clip, as each member of the family falls apart in his or her own way.

Megan Seling on the lessons to be learned from The Haunting in Connecticut:

Don't want to be haunted by hundreds of evil and eyelidless dead people with cryptic messages carved into their flesh who are trying to kill you and your family? Then follow these easy steps:

1. Don't be a teenage cancer patient undergoing an experimental treatment that may cause hallucinations.

fb43/1238452834-billy-2.jpgKelly O on cray-cray Japanese gay porno mashup videos:

It started with all those Billy Herrington butt-smacking-retro-gay-workout videos—you know the ones, with the seizure-inducing techno music and the weird floating happy-baby heads covering all the naughty bits. The ones with the deliberately bad translations of the lines from his old movies ("like embarrassing me" translates to "you are sloppy recently"?! WTF, WTF, WTF!).

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