Posts Tagged patton oswalt

‘Big Fan’: ‘The Wrestler’ for the Rest of Us

By brian longtin • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: watching

Where The Ram’s story is about an addiction to life in the spotlight, Paul Aufiero’s is about a working class brand of loyalty that looks an awful lot like religion, and all the contradictions that entails.


Summertime Notes: ‘Big Fan’, ‘The State’, ‘Thirst’, and More

By brian longtin • Jul 16th, 2009 • Category: side notes

Between breaks for holidays and vacations, a brief return with notes on Patton Oswalt in ‘Big Fan’, ‘The State’ on DVD, Chan-wook Park’s ‘Thirst’, New Flaming Lips, and ‘Modern Warfare 2′ (with goggles?).


Rogen on Buddy Flicks, Patton on Graduating, and a Nursery Rhyme on Net Etiquette

By brian longtin • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: side notes

A top five from the Pineapple Express star, Mr. Oswalt addresses his alma mater, and Baby’s First Internet.