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Eric’s Bad Movies & What’s the Big Deal? – March 25

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

For What’s the Big Deal? at Film.com this week, I figured I might as well tackle the big one, “Citizen Kane,” which even people who haven’t seen it know is “the best movie ever made.” Entire books have been written on the subject, so I just tried to summarize the basics of why the film is so widely praised.

For Eric’s Bad Movies, I addressed “Body Rock,” one of several hundred breakdancing movies released in 1984, starring Lorenzo Lamas. This is yet another film that I’d never heard of until someone suggested it for EBM, and boy, am I ever glad/angry they did.

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Insurance mandate: Obama used …

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Insurance mandate: Obama used to be against it, GOP used to be for it, it’s like I’m living in a cuckoo clock! http://bit.ly/929Crn

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South By Southwest link dumpage

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Ugh, that sounds so undignified, the dumpage of many links. Movie reviewing is not a pretty business!

I really had a terrific time in Austin this year, associating with friends, eating a lot of food, occasionally seeing movies, and even less occasionally writing about them.

At Cinematical, I wrote reviews of these films:

“MacGruber”

“His & Hers”
“American: The Bill Hicks Story”
“Trash Humpers”

I also wrote, “The Kind of Movie That Neil Marshall’s ‘Centurion’ Is,” which may amuse you, or may not, how would I know?

At Film.com, I wrote four reports, each covering a few movies in brief:

Report #1: “Kick-Ass,” “Micmacs,” “Brotherhood”

Report #2: “American: The Bill Hicks Story,” “Saturday Night,” “MacGruber”

Report #3: “Serbian Film,” “American Grindhouse,” “Monsters”

Report #4: “Barry Munday,” “Cold Weather,” “Harry Brown,” “The Loved Ones”

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