http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:39:41 -0700 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:37:50 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d17-Theyre-back?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner Here we go again.Another movie that feels compelled to reassure you right from the start that it is based on true events.Reassure you? Yes, because if you didn't know right from the start that it was real, how could you possibly know how to react to ... Movies Clive Owen Australia parenthood Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:37:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d17-Theyre-back?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d5-So-funso-what?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner        When a movie title includes an exclamation point, you’re supposed to think it must be important. (That's why in some circles this overused punctuation mark is known as a “shout.”) But y... Movies Matt Damon Steven Soderbergh Never on Sunday Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:48:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d5-So-funso-what?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d19-Twinkle-twinkle?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner Writer/director Jane Campion's ode to the Romantic poet John Keats is exquisite. Every scene is beautifully set up and photographed. The costumes and sets are breathtakingly real. The acting is superb."I have the feeling as if we're dissolving,&... Movies Jane Campion Jane Austen Keats Romantic poets Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:21:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d19-Twinkle-twinkle?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d8-There-there-now?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner The Philadelphia Movie Examiner has long believed that one of the most valuable contributions that fiction (including movies) makes to our development as human beings is its ability to let us vicariously live someone else’s life, to see the wor... Movies Razor's Edge obsession sports football Wrestler Tierney Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:29:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d8-There-there-now?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d5-Pasta-de-resistance?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner        “Better late than clever” has always been the Philadelphia Movie Examiner’s guiding principle. Having waited forty-five years to see the original “spaghetti Western,” Sergio Leon... Movies violence Sergio Leone western Henry Fonda Jason Robards Claudia Cardinale Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:43:13 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d5-Pasta-de-resistance?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d23-Withdrawal-symptoms?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner A hurt locker is an updated version of medieval body armor meant to protect American soldiers in Iraq when they try to defuse IEDs (improvised explosive devices). Hurt Locker  follows Bravo Company during its last 39 harrowing days of ... Movies grok Iraq war Hurt Locker addiction Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:28:22 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d23-Withdrawal-symptoms?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d14-Tanking-the-Titanic?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner The similarities between the sci-fi movie District 9 and the white-supremacist apartheid regime of the pre-1990s are unmistakable. (There are other, less obvious echoes of the recent past as well.)For one thing, both took place in South Africa, the m... Movies horror inhumanity violence District 9 white supremacy apartheid Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:40:13 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d14-Tanking-the-Titanic?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Boneless-chickens?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner  In writer/director Lynn Shelton’s Humpday, two college buddies (Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard) —both straight, one married (Duplass)—reunite after a long separation. They get drunk (of course) and high (naturally) and decide... Movies sex schadenfreude chicken humor gloat humping Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:09:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Boneless-chickens?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d23-Fistful-of-knuckles?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner The Philadelphia Movie Examiner just saw the original “spaghetti Western,” Sergio Leone’s 1964 Per un pugno di dollari (aka A Fistful of Dollars). What was his hurry? you may ask. Good question. He could reply, “Better late th... Movies horror violence Clint Eastwood Sergio Leone western Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:00:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d23-Fistful-of-knuckles?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d18-A-Philadelphia-atheists-lot-is-not-an-easy-one?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner Even the Philadelphia Movie Reviewer has had to take his lumps.  After he posted a positive review of the anti-homophobic movie For the Bible Tells Me So, he was treated to a fiery Biblical sermon. On another occasion, he was taken to ... Unitarian religion atheism philosophy Heinlein grok meetups Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:47:35 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d18-A-Philadelphia-atheists-lot-is-not-an-easy-one?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d17-A-Child-shall-feed-them?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner Julia Child was such a bigger-than-life, idiosyncratic personality that it would have been easy for writer/director Nora Ephron and particularly Meryl Streep to turn her into a caricature. (As a matter of fact, there is a caricature of one of Child&r... Movies Julie & Julia French cuisine Nora Ephron Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:57:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d17-A-Child-shall-feed-them?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Too-much-there-there?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner  Sita Sings the Blues, a full-length animated movie, is imaginative, inventive, even adorable. And after ten minutes, unbearably tedious. That’s because once you get used to the novelty, it wears off and there’s nothing else to engag... Movies sex Rama India animation Sita Sings the Blues myth Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:58:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Too-much-there-there?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d4-Hearts-of-stone?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner A woman I saw The Stoning of Soraya M. with complained that the men in movie were all lifeless stereotypes. She even cited Roger Ebert. As one of the characters in the movie remarks, “You were never able to read between the words.”In one ... Movies sadism religion Islam Sharia Iran inhumanity adultery stoning Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:34:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d4-Hearts-of-stone?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d2-Food-for-naught?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner  In the interest of transparency, I should say right at the start that I have a horse in this race. I should say it, but I really can’t. I’m against horseback riding or any other kind of animal exploitation. That includes eating them... Jews food animal rights Gandhi nutrition Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:56:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d2-Food-for-naught?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d27-Remembrance-of-religious-movies-past?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner  I didn’t realize until I started writing this article that my favorite movie is also the most spiritual movie I’ve ever seen. That came as quite a surprise to me, because neither I nor anyone else had ever considered this slick prod... Movies Christianity Fundamentalism Inherit the Wind evolution sex religion Razor's Edge Elmer Gantry nun Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:08:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d27-Remembrance-of-religious-movies-past?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m5d29-Life-seen-at-the-subAtomic-level?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner Atom Egoyan’s latest cinematic conundrum, Adoration, brings to mind Winston Churchill’s famous 1939 description of the Soviet Union as a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”Another Russian allusion is also apropos... animal rights Adoration Fri, 29 May 2009 17:22:25 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m5d29-Life-seen-at-the-subAtomic-level?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m5d16-Dont-askdo-tell?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner Back in the day, the asexual “sex comedies” starring Doris Day were driven by this burning question: Will she (or won’t she) lose her precious virginity to Rock Hudson…or Cary Grant…or Clark Gable? Since these movies w... Movies sex Doris Day French movie prudishness Sat, 16 May 2009 19:25:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m5d16-Dont-askdo-tell?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m5d16-Toto-Ive-a-feeling-were-not-in-Kansas-any-more?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner When Dorothy makes that plaintive observation in The Wizard of Oz, she is filled with apprehension and confusion.But in 1939, as in most of the decade, Americans were glad not to be in Kansas or Minnesota or Pennsylvania any more. For a couple of hou... Movies depression recession escapism Sat, 16 May 2009 18:52:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m5d16-Toto-Ive-a-feeling-were-not-in-Kansas-any-more?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m4d5-Ya-gotta-cut-da-crap-fo-ya-kin-cut-da-mustard?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner     In an interview after a showing of Cuttin Da Mustard at the Philadelphia Film Festival, writer-director Reed R. McCants told the audience that he wanted his semi-autobiographical movie to emphasize the importance of literacy. ... Movies Cut Da Mustard acting theater putting on a show Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:02:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m4d5-Ya-gotta-cut-da-crap-fo-ya-kin-cut-da-mustard?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Triumph-of-the-willor-its-denial?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner Whenever I see a clip from Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens, 1935), I have very mixed emotions. Of course, as a Jew—and a human being—I despise everything that Hitler and his gang of s... acting The Reader Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:38:37 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5346-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Triumph-of-the-willor-its-denial?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Movie-Examiner