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Date Movies Even a Hipster Can Love: The Year of Indie Rom-Coms
By brian longtin • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: watching
Who’s Got Something For Me? I Do! What Is It? The State DVD Contest
By brian longtin • Aug 3rd, 2009 • Category: watchingTell us your favorite The State moment, and you could win a DVD prize pack worth literally tens of dollars.
Up Close and Personal: ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Moon’
By brian longtin • Jul 31st, 2009 • Category: watchingTwo smaller-scale films stand up against blockbuster season, and get so much more out of so much less by brutally focusing on their subjects.
Big Laughs at LAFF: ‘In the Loop’ and ‘Humpday’
By brian longtin • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: watchingEven if you missed the LA Film Fest, both of these clever little films are worth tracking down when they arrive in a theater near you.
Fool Me Once: Falling for the ‘The Brothers Bloom’
By brian longtin • May 28th, 2009 • Category: watchingRian Johnson’s follow-up to Brick works like a con itself: as long as there’s a part of us that’s willing to be taken on a ride, we’ll end up feeling like we came out ahead.
Breaking Through Defenses: How ‘Friday Night Lights’ Will Make You Care About Football
By brian longtin • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: watchingFNL isn’t just worth watching despite the time spent on the field; it’s so well crafted, you might even find yourself suppressing the urge to cheer out loud.
Needy Nerd Syndrome: Loving ‘Watchmen’ For What It Is
By brian longtin • Mar 9th, 2009 • Category: watching‘Watchmen’ is a spectacular piece of genre film that only fails at the unreasonable task we set before it.
Casting Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West
By spencer • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: watchingDirector Todd Field has what it takes to bring ‘Blood Meridian’ to life: now all we need are the people acting in front of the camera to be capable of matching Field’s discipline and talent.
The State of Modern Horror - Part IV: The Shining
By spencer • Oct 27th, 2008 • Category: watchingOur special feature examining the past, present and future of the horror genre concludes this week by focusing on the best in recent horror films, and what they’re doing right.
The State of Modern Horror - Part III: Darkness Falls
By spencer • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: watchingOur series on the past, present and future of the horror genre continues. This week we look at the preponderance of terrible, terrible horror movies — by analyzing, in detail, a well-received horror movie from this year, why it is almost objectively terrible, and what basic rules of horror cinema it breaks.
