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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Animal Kingdom

There are some accolades that sound like the very opposite; the best giblet-based pate, for example, or the best late-night garage. So, I want you to believe me when I say that Animal Kingdom is the best Australian film that I have ever seen, and I want you believe it without irony.
Animal Kingdom (I know [...]

True Grit: A very short review

True Grit, the Coen Brothers’ remake of the 1969 John Wayne Western, suffers from one major problem. They appear to have cast my father in the lead role.
Of course, this isn’t a unique problem; it happened with The Big Lebowski and Crazy Heart too. You see, as a rollie-smoking, cheek-chewing, phlegm-coughing, grey-haired man in dirty [...]