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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 23, 2009

A Woman in Berlin

A Woman In Berlin is an adaptation of the anonymous diary of a German woman during the fall of Berlin in 1945. It’s a good film, but it does not have the bitterness and the starkly brutal tone of the book. The book could be an apocryphal German version of the diary of Anne Frank, except that it…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 2, 2009

The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is a great war movie and probably the first serious action war movie ever. There have been many…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 25, 2009

Agnostics rejoice!

You and we atheists have a new poster boy! And he is rather cute.
I’m not a huge fan of his, but I commend him for saying so publicly. We need more atheist, agnostic celebrities out there.

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 20, 2009

Harry Potter and The Palace of Indifference

Or, in a nutshell, I don’t give a flying fuck about Harry Potter. I have never read the books and have never seen the movies. Even on airplanes I can’t muster the attention to follow the capes and the brooms and the forced British gloom for more than two seconds. Can we call it a day with him, please?

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 14, 2009

Brüno

I laughed much more with Borat, perhaps because it was the shock of the new, but also because Borat is a sweet boor, whereas Brüno is a clueless vapid idiot. He is Teutonic. Heavy.
The movie follows the same formula as Borat, except it feels a little more tightly constructed. That is, it’s on a steady escalation of…