Spitball Army

Le Quattro Volte (2010): Posits that our lives cycle through all phases of nature. Just finished viewing it and want to immediately see it again. 21 Jump Street (2012): At the 21 Jump Street sneak tonight: full house; almost constant laughs; possibly the sickest dick joke on film. The Artist (2011): Saw The Artist tonight. […]

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Pina (2011): Who knew modern dance could be so funny, moving, provocative, & energizing to watch? Not me, apparently. Fantastic even in 2D. In Time (2011): Borrowed premise (Logan’s Run; Gattaca); clunky dialogue; wonderfully creative use of downtown Los Angeles locations. I kept thinking, while watching, how it might work as stage play…characters ruminating on […]

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I live in the Crestwood neighborhood of Birmingham. There is a movie theatre down the street from me called The Edge 12. I can walk there from my home, if I so desire. This theatre has twelve screens. They frequently show films of great merit. They also show films for everyone else. We all get […]

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Three new films have opened open at The Edge 12 this week.

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I live in the Crestwood neighborhood of Birmingham. There is a movie theatre down the street from me called The Edge 12. I can walk there from my home, if I so desire. This theatre has twelve screens. They frequently show films of great merit. They also show films for everyone else. We all get […]

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Five new films open at The Edge 12 this week (7/29/2011): Cowboys and Aliens, Crazy Stupid Love, The Smurfs, The Tree of Life, and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (yeah, that’s what she said).

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Four new films have opened at The Edge 12 this week: Larry Crowne, Midnight in Paris, Monte Carlo and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

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Three new films are opening at The Edge 12 today: Bad Teacher, Cars 2, Incendies.

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Click on the images to see a larger view. New Tale of Zatoichi (1963) is the third in the film series featuring Shintaru Katso as the wandering blind masseur. Zatoichi is also a skilled swordsman with a violent past. This is the first Zatoichi installment filmed in color. The IMDb page for this film can […]

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Lists! And none of them are in ranked order. Also, none of the lists include the couple of handfuls of things that I forgot. Here goes: My favorite music of 2010 (the source material for this coming Sunday’s playlist): Mandelring Quartett / Schumann: Piano Quintet Josh Rouse / El Turista I disliked this album at first, […]

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