Take The City And Run

1. The Big Sleep - “Murder”
2. TV On The Radio - “Wolf Like Me”
3. The Knife - “Silent Shout”
4. Gnarls Barkley - “Crazy”
5. The Rapture - “Whoo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh”
6. Unsacred Hearts - “But Ms. Love”
7. Grizzly Bear - “Knife”
8. Unsacred Hearts - “Somewhere Deep In NYC”
9. Matmos - “Steam And Sequins For Larry Levan”
10. […]

1. Children Of Men
2. The Prestige
3. Brick [Film Log]
4. United 93 [Film Log]
5. Why We Fight
6. Block Party [Film Log]
7. Babel
8. The Proposition [Film Log]
9. A Scanner Darkly [Film Log]
10. Pan’s Labyrinth

1. [tie] The Big Sleep - Son Of The Tiger
1. [tie] Unsacred Hearts - In Defense Of Fort Useless
3. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
5. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
6. The Black Angels - Passover
7. The Roots - Game Theory
8. Gnarls Barkley - […]

Directed by Chris Paine
It does succeed in its main goal of making you wonder why electric cars were forced out of production, and offers a number of potential answers, therefore it’s a success on that level. And it’s not badly made, but it is a little overly sentimental at times.
[IMDb]

Directed by Marshall Curry
A well made documentary about Newark politics. At first, I thought the director’s narration was going to annoy me, but its inclusion began to make sense once his attempts to cover the incumbent mayor (his subject’s oppostion) were shown as completely rebuffed and unreasonably aggressive. He was dragged into his own story […]

Directed by Woody Allen
Somewhat reminiscent of Manhattan Murder Mystery at times, but, while Scarlett Johansson is entertaining, she doesn’t pull off neuroticism as well as Diane Keaton. The banter between the leads feels much more forced here than in previous Allen films, which really messes with the pacing. Not a bad film, but also not […]

Directed by David Slade
Stylistically interesting, and mostly well-acted. Even has an interesting premise with great potential to be compelling. But, somehow, it doesn’t quite come together in a way that truly satisfies.
[IMDb]

Directed by Marc Forster
Harold Crick: You don’t understand that this isn’t a story to me, it’s my life! I want to live!
The concept of the film brings to mind the work of Charlie Kaufman — Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind — but, in the end, doesn’t quite reach the same […]

Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Grandpa: A real loser is someone who’s so afraid of not winning he doesn’t even try.
Enjoyable, well-acted, but it wants to be quirkier than it is, which makes it feel a little overdone at times.
[IMDb]

Directed by Richard Linklater
Set in a future not too far off, the film really acts as an indictment of many elements of today’s culture and serves as a cautionary tale. Of course, it’s a story by Philip K. Dick, so this is to be expected. It’s one of the best films we’ve seen so far […]

Directed by Sidney Lumet
Jackie: Send me to jail. I’m not guilty, but I’m used to it.
There is admittedly something clever — even if a bit distracting — about the way in which the film straddles the line between drama and comedy. But, ultimately, the film plays more like a series of highlights stringed together from […]

Directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross
Man, that was the worst Bob Hope/Bing Crosby movie I ever saw! Seriously, though, the mix of interviews with the Tipton Three and dramatizations of their accounts is well done and becomes much more relevant as the brutality of their imprisonment is revealed. The major question that comes to […]