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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 »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 »Sex And The City 2 (And Religion) (And Feminism) (And Race) (And Homophobia)
June 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Diana Bass complains: It just wasn’t very funny to see four smart American women parading western consumerism and sexualized identity in blatantly insensitive and anti-religious ways in a traditional world. Wait a minute, what she describes may not be funny but it’s certainly the best thing I’ve heard about the film from everything that I’ve [...]
United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops Review Of Invention Of Lying
October 4th, 2009 Daniel Fincke makes the film sound must-see: The fashionable “new atheism” — popularized in book form by such authors as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens — unexpectedly slithers its way into the neighborhood cineplex with the arrival of “The Invention of Lying” (Warner Bros.). Though its trailer gives no clue as to its true agenda, this venomous [...]
Posted in Atheism, Film, Film Reviews, Roman Catholic Church Tags: Ricky Gervais, The Invention of Lying No Comments »Spider-Man Looks Dead
August 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Thankfully, I refer not to the True Spider-Man. Our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man who lives in our hearts will never die. And I’m sure the Marvel Comics Spider-Man will persist as long as there is such a thing as Marvel Comics. And most importantly to me, the Raimi-Maguire-Dunst Spider-Man looks slated to take its fourth chapter [...]
Posted in Arts, Film, Film Reviews, Music, Pop Culture Tags: "Across the Universe", Julie Taymor, Sam Raimi, Spider-Man, Spider-Man films, Spider-Man Musical, U2 No Comments »Coraline
July 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Put simply, Henry Selick’s Coraline (out on DVD yesterday) was one of the greatest visual experiences I’ve ever had in a movie theater. Not to mention that its story was thoroughly engaging and effectively creepy and suspenseful. Selick’s film actually is the first which shows a real generational leap beyond the stop motion animation achievements [...]
Posted in Film, Film Reviews Tags: Coraline, Dakota Fanning, Henry Selick, John Hodgman, Terry Hatcher No Comments »Peter Suderman Nails Snyder’s Watchmen
July 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I love a great review. In what follows Peter Suderman manages to sum up the core problem of Snyder’s film version of Watchmen in less a paragraph: The sensibility behind it is puerile in the extreme. Say what you will about Moore and his book, at least he had a story to tell and something [...]
Posted in Comic Books, Film, Film Reviews, Pop Culture Tags: Alan Moore, American Scene, Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism, Peter Suderman, Watchmen, Zack Snyder No Comments »Letting Go Of God
July 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Julia Sweeney, of It’s Pat! from Saturday Night Live fame, has a film in which she describes her journey out of religion. Here is a trailer for the film: Here is a performance of the first 15 minutes of her stage show: Greta Christina recommends it as highly as possible: Sweeney is more than just [...]
Posted in Film, Film Reviews Tags: "Letting Go Of God", Deconversion Stories, Greta Christina, Julia Sweeney No Comments »While You Were Sleeping
September 5th, 2006 Daniel Fincke Okay, the feedback is rolling in as now we are up to four people who have attested to having visited at some point. Privately surprise has been expressed that While You Were Sleeping makes my list of favorite films. So, I will take that as request for a discussion of this fine piece of cinema. [...]
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