I’ve been looking forward to Spike Jonze’s Her ever since it had been announced… if only because at the time it sounded like it was going to be another story about a Manic Pixie Dream Girl teaching a beleaguered, sensitive soul how to love and make his life better and I could always use more material to…
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Learn From This: Don Jon
Normally I prefer not to do “Learn From This” articles on movies that are currently in the theater. To start with, it’s a lot harder for me to take notes (or make trenchant commentary) without annoying the piss out of everyone around me. For another… frankly, throwing up the odd Amazon affiliate link for the…
Learn From This: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
As half my readership heads off to Nerdi Gras to sit in line for three days in hopes of getting into the Hunger Games 2: Hungry Like the Wolf panel at Hall G, I am contentedly sitting at home and enjoying the brief spate of incredible weather here in Austin. And as more tales of…
Learn From This: The Great Gatsby
I’ve been meaning to do a Learn From This for The Great Gatsby for a while now. I’m an unabashed Baz Luhrmann fan, and there really wasn’t a director I could think of who was better suited stylistically to match the opulence, excesses, vacuousness and conspicuous consumption of the Hamptons in the Jazz Age. While…
Nerd Role Models: The Fantasy Boyfriend
Today we’re entering the latest in the Nerd Role Models series, wherein we look at popular characters in geek culture and break down just what it is about them that makes them so special… and what you can learn from them. And in this case, we’re talking about the tricky subject of attractiveness. It can…
Learn From This: The Perks of Being A Wallflower
So it’s something of a shame that I missed out on The Perks of Being a Wallflower while it was in theaters. Considering that the majority of my social circle is involved in the film scene in one form or another, you would’ve thought that I would have caught this film far earlier. But shit happens and…
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