The Audient
Monday, February 29, 2016

Insanity incarnate, and other Oscar thoughts

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I haven't done my usual amount as a lead-up to the Oscars this year on my blog. In fact, I've done almost nothing. So I thought I...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Should we protect our children from spoilers?

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We live in an age of excessive spoiler awareness, whether it comes in the form of trying to avoid having things spoiled for you, or watchin...
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Saturday, February 27, 2016

No Audio Audient: Sherlock, Jr.

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This is the second in my 2016 series No Audio Audient , in which I catch up with one silent film per month. I've been chastising mys...
Friday, February 26, 2016

No smuggling snacks on a first date

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I knew a 9:30 showing of Hail, Caesar! would be a difficult proposition given that I was coming off a night of wicked insomnia. The fact...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Traumatizing animal movies of our childhoods

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For the generation before my wife and me, Old Yeller probably would have taken the prize as the movie about animals that most traumatized ...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Like old times

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Ever since I got my critics card last July, sneaking into second halves of illegal double features has become a thing of the past. That t...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

I finally saw: [REC]

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In the fall of 2008 I saw and loved Quarantine , which made 2008 kind of a watershed year in terms of imaginative new ways to use found foo...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Mission accomplished

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I scratched an old itch tonight. When I finally watched The Mission , it was the fulfillment of an intention to view that was nearly eigh...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Valentine's Days with Daniel Radcliffe

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If you're getting a sense of deja vu from this post -- and, let's be honest, you're probably not -- then it might be because I...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

The folly of remaking something unique

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I'm away for the weekend and supposed to be taking a small break from blogging, but the wifi is strong where I'm staying, and I...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

Everything is awesome/everything is boring

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Wednesday was a day of two movie-watching extremes for me, even though the two movies had a deceptive amount in common. And even though I...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Audient Auscars Extended: Gandhi

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When I announced in December that I was extending my Audient Auscars series for three more months to get in the last three best picture wi...
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Full-time IT guy, part-time film critic. And yes, I do realize that adds up to one-and-a-half "times."
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