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Author: Ryan McNeil

award talk

The Simple Story (Oscar Predictions – Best Adapted & Original Screenplay)

It all starts with a script…

Posted on February 22, 2012February 27, 2012
trailers

Eyes of a Stranger (INTRUDERS Trailer)

How do you say “It’s only a dream” in Spanish?

Posted on February 21, 2012February 26, 2012
matineecast, podcasts

In Between Days vol. 2

Sasha James and Bob Turnbull join me for breakfast to talk about how we source new films to watch.

Posted on February 20, 2012February 25, 2012
reviews

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Sometimes you can follow the best parenting book to the letter, and still have a child that is truly screwed up.

Posted on February 19, 2012October 3, 2012
the watchlist

Days of The Week (Films Watched Feb 11 – Feb 17

That mission of focusing on first-time watches is well in hand for 2012. Took me until the middle of March to see this many last year.

Posted on February 18, 2012February 23, 2012
links

Everybody’s Talkin’ 2 – 17 (Chatter from Other Bloggers)

Rich eulogizes Whitney, Limette gets poetic, and Darren ponders sequelitis.

Posted on February 17, 2012February 21, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Big in Japan pt. 3 (Continuing the Anime Syllabus)

Shinkai and Takahata bring me back to earth.

Posted on February 16, 2012November 18, 2014
trailers

President Dead (ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER Trailer)

Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers put forth a call to beware of the undead…

Posted on February 15, 2012February 20, 2012
matineecast, podcasts

Episode 52

Talkin’ THE WOMAN IN BLACK with guest Joe Belanger from Black Sheep Movie Reviews. He and Ryan also read some listener feedback on movie-going pet peeves and rattle off a list of five moments of movie silence.

Posted on February 13, 2012July 3, 2013
reviews

THE IRON LADY

Over the last ten or twelve years, Meryl Streep has given moviegoers some of the very best performances they have ever witnessed. This isn’t one of them.

Posted on February 12, 2012April 9, 2013
the watchlist

Days of The Week (Films Watched Feb 4 – Feb 10

Oscar nominees abound this week, and I manage to get back to the cinema. Twice.

Posted on February 11, 2012March 24, 2012
links

Everybody’s Talkin’ 2 – 10 (Chatter from Other Bloggers)

Simon explores new uses for purple seamless, Jake lays into the lack of MENACE enthusiasm, and CriticalMass manage to get to the same place at the same time.

Posted on February 10, 2012February 15, 2012

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