Activist & Political · Documentaries

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Jack-Ass II: Downsizing Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me

• July 31, 2004

Spurlock’s no Sherlock

Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews

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Stray Man: Kurosawa’s Stray Dog on DVD

• July 31, 2004

Tokyo steams, Mifune screams, Shimura beams

Reviews

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Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Blue Spring to Wisconsin Death Trip

• July 31, 2004

“Old fruit, you’ve got it!”

DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground

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Ai, Robot! Survival Research Laboratories: 10 Years of Robotic Mayhem on DVD

• July 31, 2004

A Cruel and Rebellious Plot to Pervert the Minds of Viewers to Unholy Uses

Books · LGBT & Queer · Writers & Critics

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“I Changed My Socially Constructed Sexual Identity!” Jenni Olson on The Queer Movie Poster Book

• July 31, 2004

“The butler did it … to everyone!”

Comedy · Reviews

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Welcome to the Chest Club: Tina Fey’s Mean Girls

• July 31, 2004

Freaks and Geeks redux

Characters · Essays

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All the Citizen’s Men: Kane as Welles; also America

• July 31, 2004

Kane as Welles, also America

Activist & Political · Essays · Historical & Epic

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Want Fact with That? Disney’s Hidalgo and the Commodification of Myth

• July 31, 2004

Enjoy your myths — that’s what they’re there for

Reviews · SF & Fantasy

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Harry Potter and the Valley of the Mysterious Female

• July 31, 2004

When Harry got laid

Drama · Reviews

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They Can’t Give You Anything but Love: Robert Aldrich’s Grissom Gang on DVD

• July 31, 2004

Of course, it’ll cost you

Essays · War

1

Don’t Follow Leaders: Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket

• July 31, 2004

Kubrick’s shaman/artist takes on “the leaders”

Documentaries · Essays

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F for Fake: The Ultimate Mirror of Orson Welles

• July 31, 2004

In which Welles deflates expectations of greatness — and transcends them

Activist & Political · Drama · Essays

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Above the Revolution: The Dreamers and Alienation

• July 31, 2004

“With my memories I have lit a fire.”

Drama · Experimental & Underground

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Dogville: Or How Not to Discover America

• July 31, 2004

Von Trier’s America may be too cartoonish for its own good

Drama · Experimental & Underground

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Dogville: Or Lars von Trier’s New Old Testament

• July 31, 2004

On the seventh day … he should have kept working

Drama · Religion & Spirituality

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“God Has Already Broken Me!” Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest on DVD

• July 31, 2004

Nowhere man

Activist & Political · Documentaries

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Do the Wrong Thing: Confronting The Corporation

• July 31, 2004

Corporations, go to the head of the line; everyone else, wait

DVD & Blu-ray · Mystery

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Upper-Lip Stiffs: The Agatha Christie Megaset Collection

• July 31, 2004

Christie should be smiling — she still outsells the Bible

Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents

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Looking at Charlie: Keystone and Essanay Days

• July 31, 2004

The first in an occasional series of articles on the life and work of Charlie Chaplin

Drama · Essays

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Millions Like Us: Bereavement in British Cinema

• July 31, 2004

“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”