A Few Good Blog Posts (July, 2011)
by HELEN GEIB
A monthly round-up of recent blog posts I enjoyed reading.
Kinnemaniac takes an appreciative second look at Black Swan Read more 
A Few Good Blog Posts (June, 2011)
by HELEN GEIB
A monthly round-up of recent blog posts I enjoyed reading. There’s more than a few in this month’s edition, but there were too many good ones to cut the list down any further.
Radiator Heaven mounts a spirited defense of Tony Scott’s Domino (2005) Read more
Free-Talking on Cinema, Movies, and Film (May, 2011)
by HELEN GEIB
[Note: The monthly Free-Talking post is updated every five days, give or take a day every now and then.]
MAY 23, 2011- FORMAT CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT
Starting next week the “free-talking” running post will be broken out into weekly posts, beginning with the monthly discussion question on the first Wednesday of June.
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MAY 17, 2011- (RANDOM) TRAILER OF THE MONTH
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Free-Talking on Cinema, Movies, and Film (April, 2011)
by HELEN GEIB
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APRIL 25, 2011- I’M NOT DEPRESSED ANYMORE, OR MY APRIL AT THE MOVIES RECAP
So last week I was in Phoenix for a software training course. Or to be more accurate, in the middle of the anonymous, endless suburban sprawl that is greater Phoenix. I went looking for a Borders (to feed my manga addiction) and in the same mall found a 25 screen movie theater. Yes, you read that right. Twenty. Five. Screens. Needless to say there wasn’t anything like 25 movies filling those 25 screens. Between Arthur and Hop Russell Brand alone occupied five of them, which says pretty much all there is to say about that. Read more
Free-Talking on Cinema, Movies, and Film (March, 2011)
by HELEN GEIB
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MARCH 28, 2011- MARCH, OR WHY I REALLY NEED TO SEE A GOOD MOVIE NEXT WEEK
I realized something this week that’s got me pretty depressed over the state of multiplex moviegoing. Read more
Free-Talking on Cinema, Movies, and Film (February, 2011)
by HELEN GEIB
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FEBRUARY 26, 2011- AND MY LEAST FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR DRAWS TO A CLOSE
Last night I saw Memento at the IMA. I hadn’t seen it since it was new and had forgotten all but the broad outline. That’s not a memory joke, but a preface to saying how much I enjoyed being taken by surprise again by the plot twists. It was the closing film of the “Winter Nights” series, theme: noir and neo-noir, and also gave my group our best post-movie discussion of the series. We sat around for well more than an hour (until the Starbucks kicked us out) deconstructing the plot, analyzing the themes, teasing out noir tropes and influences…. Read more
Free-Talking on Cinema, Movies, and Film (January, 2011)
by HELEN GEIB
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JANUARY 27, 2011- JANUARY, OR HOW I AVOIDED THE MULTIPLEX AND HAD A GREAT MONTH AT THE MOVIES
It’s hard to love Hollywood in January. There are lots of good movies still in theaters, but the operative word is “still.” Since I managed to see all the big December releases in December for a change, this year has made me acutely aware of what a lousy month January is for new Hollywood movies. Read more
