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Tonight I saw Chronicle. My spoiler-free review is that I liked it and would give it a B, not because it is at all a well rounded film but because the few things it did well it did well in a special way that I expect to remember for a long time. For my spoiler-filled [...]
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Chronicle
February 12th, 2012 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Comic Books, Comic Books, Comic Books, Film, Film, Film Reviews, Film Reviews 
Tags: Chronicle, Chronicle Film Review, Chronicle Movie, Max Landis 
4 Comments »Patton Oswalt Sums Up The Underwhelming Imagination of the Star Wars Prequels
February 7th, 2012 Daniel Fincke From his comedy album Werewolves and Lollipops, Patton Oswalt sums up many people’s disappointments with the premise of the Star Wars prequels: It’s weird that objectively I fully understand and usually agree with many of the criticisms of the prequels and yet still personally love them. Are they flawed? Absolutely. They could have been 15 [...]
You Know I Usually Hate Wes Anderson Movies…
January 12th, 2012 Daniel Fincke …and this trailer is so Wes Andersony (Slate nicely breaks down how) that at first it struck me like he was descending into self-parody. But by the end I felt like I had just watched a charming two minute movie. Watching the actual full length film might spoil the charm. I’ll have to think over [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Parody Tags: Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Wes Anderson's Spider-Man 3 Comments »I’m a Muppet of a Man, I’m a Very Manly Muppet
January 11th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Life’s like a movie, make your ending, keep believing, keep pretending… As Tyler Cowen was talking about in the last post, humans are inexorably drawn to stories. I even like to think of every sentence as a story. It stars a subject which verbs something. And in my childhood there were two stories that loomed [...]
Did NYU Fire a Professor for Giving James Franco a D?
December 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke The Guardian: A professor who was fired by New York University has filed a lawsuit claiming he was dismissed for giving celebrity student James Franco a D grade for poor attendance. Dr José Angel Santana, who taught as an assistant arts professor on the actor’s graduate film course, says that Franco – who supplements his acting career [...]
Jokers
December 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke via Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comic Books, Comic Books, Comic Books, Film, Film, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Autograph Seekers, Batman 1989, Funny Pictures, Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, Jack Nicholson vs. Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson's Joker vs. Heath Ledger's Joker, The Dark Knight, The Joker 4 Comments »Arnold Schwarzenegger Explains Total Recall For Us
November 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Rather hilariously, Arnold seems to think the point of a DVD commentary is to narrate the film for the viewers: Less hilariously, he was elected governor of California. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Film, Hilarious, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Total Recall 2 Comments »L. Dicaprio
November 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Oscar season has begun: L. DiCaprio (J. Edgar Parody) – watch more funny videos Your Thoughts?
A Short Film In Fake English
October 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The film is called Skwerl. Is that what we English speakers sound like to people who can’t understand us? Is this? Your Thoughts?
Misogyny At The Movies: A 50/50 Film Review
October 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I am going to break with my normal habit of assiduously avoiding spoilers in my review of the film 50/50. I am also going to succumb shamelessly and repeatedly to my weakness for painfully obvious plays on words:
Posted in Feminism, Feminism, Film, Film, Film Reviews, Film Reviews, Women's Issues Tags: 50/50, Misogyny in 50/50, Sexism 9 Comments »Everything Is A Remix: The Matrix
October 7th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A nice job of illustrating one film’s myriad visual and narrative allusions to prior films and other visual media: Everything Is A Remix: THE MATRIX from robgwilson.com on Vimeo. If only there were some way to bring so vividly to life a literary or philosophical work’s connections to all that has gone before it. (via) [...]
Parrot (A Short Atheist Film)
September 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A 20 minute Australian short film about a closeted atheist wants to be the atheist’s Philadelphia or In the Heat of the Night. Here is the trailer: Parrot Short Film Trailer from Myrtle Street Pictures on Vimeo. It looks interesting, but I admit that I am squeamish about the whole idea of self-consciously atheistic filmmaking. So [...]
Posted in Arts, Arts, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Film, Film, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism 2 Comments »Talking To Your Kids About Star Wars, A Public Service Announcement
September 22nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke It is important to address some things with your children before other people do: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjMGOvMghY How have you dealt with introducing Star Wars to your children? Your Thoughts on the right and wrong ways to go about it?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Culture, Film, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: PSA Parodies, Star Wars 7 Comments »The Problematic Use of Skeptics in Supernatural Shows
September 19th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Soon-to-be fellow Freethought Blogs blogger Jen McCreight has a good post, wherein she is skeptical of a character’s skeptical reactions in an episode of True Blood. Jen gives spoilers, but I won’t. I can just sum up the problem abstractly as the following: a character who over the course of 47 episodes of the show has discovered the [...]
Straw Dogs and The Human Mind
September 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Seeing the trailer for the upcoming remake of Straw Dogs made me think about the brilliant original film and about the shockingly violent and brutal lengths that a previously cowardly mathematician goes to to defend his home from invasion against threatening workmen, two of whom have already raped his wife. And whenever I think about [...]
Suing The Devil
September 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Nobody makes terribly blunt and bluntly terrible propaganda movies like the Evangelical Christians: Not a bad cast selling their souls in this one. Surprising how many mainstream actors have been appearing in these preachy schlocky un-self-aware imagination-free self-parodies the Evangelicals make. The kind of pathetic thing is that I remember watching Devil’s Advocate as an [...]
In Honor of Natalie Portman's Best Actress Award
February 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I was extremely proud of one of my favorite human beings last night. It’s a good night to reminisce about how much talent she already had at just 13 years old, in the film Beautiful Girls: Your Thoughts?
150 Of Film's Most Remembered Lines
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke They don’t get much more famous than these: Which is the most famous you didn’t hear? Your Thoughts?
Kansas vs. Darwin
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke From today through March 12, you can screen Kansas vs. Darwin. Description of the film: Even before they took place, the 2005 Kansas school board hearings on evolution were recognized as a pivotal battle in America’s ongoing war over teaching evolution in the public schools. Organized by believers in Intelligent Design and convened by creationists, [...]
The Nothing (Neverending Story + Radiohead's "How To Disappear")
February 10th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Film, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Music Videos, Pop Culture, Pop Culture, Videos Tags: The Neverending Story, The Nothing No Comments »How Many Days Did Bill Murray's Character Spend In A Time Loop In The Film Groundhog Day?
February 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke 12,403 days (which is 33 years, 358 days). At least according to Simon Gallagher’s math. Even I haven’t ever spent that long trying to win over a girl. via Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Tosh.0 Explains The Whole Plot Of Human Centipede (Uncut)
February 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Daniel Tosh hilarious recounts the full plot of the supremely gross, transgressive horror film, The Human Centipede: Tosh.0 Tags: Tosh.0 Videos,Daniel Tosh,Web Redemption A few days after I successfully defended my dissertation last year, one of my best friends and I went out for a celebratory dinner and afterwards decided to see a movie on [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Film Reviews, Film Reviews, Hilarious Tags: Daniel Tosh, Roger Ebert, The Human Centipede, Tosh.0 2 Comments »Daily Hilarity: The Amazing Atheist Drubs Revenge Of The Sith
January 4th, 2011 Daniel Fincke For those of you who find it cathartic to have my beloved Star Wars prequels dragged through the mud cleverly and didn’t think Mr. Plinkett’s two hour evisceration of Revenge of the Sith was thorough enough, here is The Amazing Atheist’s review of it: You can also find his takedowns of the previous prequels via [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Film Reviews, Film Reviews, Hilarious, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Amazing Atheist, Star Wars No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Red Letter Media Eviscerates Revenge Of The Sith
January 1st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I am a Star Wars fan and one of the few passionate defenders of the prequels, each of which I wholeheartedly loved the first dozens of times I saw each one. But, if you are going to hate on the prequels, you cannot do a much more thorough, defensible, or hilarious job than Red Letter [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Film, Film, Film Reviews, Film Reviews, Hilarious, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Plinkett, Red Letter Media, Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars 2 Comments »Daily Hilarity: Zuckerberg’s Side Of The Story
October 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Film, Film, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network No Comments »
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