REVENGE started out rather so-so, I thought, but boy has it become good, soapy fun the last few weeks. Great twists.
I really like PRIME SUSPECT; a shame it's been cancelled (unless there's been a reprieve I haven't heard about).
My other favorites this past year were LOUIE, BREAKING BAD, JUSTIFIED (even though I'm only a few episodes into the season, playing catch-up), THE HOUR, BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD, SUITS, and the late, lamented (by me) LIGHTS OUT.
a fan's notes by joe baltake devoted to movies unknown and mostly misunderstood
about this site, a collection of movie-fed daydreams...
Life is simply one grand excuse to watch movies and then sit around and think about them. While my education, so to speak, came from reviewing films for newspapers owned Gannett, Tribune, Knight-Ridder, The News Corporation and McClatchy, my personality - or rather my taste - was shaped largely in my old neighborhood movie theater and on my parents' living room floor. Watching movies. And falling in love with the unacclaimed. Passionately.
(the passionate moviegoer ® is a registered trademark)
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"Blog looks fabulous, just what the net needs: less about Michael Mann, more about Delbert Mann!"
"There is no better evidence of Joe's passion than his subject matter, defending and remembering the more obscure titles from cinematic history. No matter how much you think you might know about movies, odds are you will learn of new ones if you check out Joe's site."
"Joe ... devotes himself to those myriad neglected figures and movies seemingly left by the roadside in our societal rush toward cultural amnesia. Whether he is trying to find the source of Jack Lemmon's quicksilver appeal or understand Vincente Minnelli's valedictory films or express just why we miss Jack Carson, Joe is consistently thoughtful and knowledgeable without being ponderous."
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REVENGE started out rather so-so, I thought, but boy has it become good, soapy fun the last few weeks. Great twists.
I really like PRIME SUSPECT; a shame it's been cancelled (unless there's been a reprieve I haven't heard about).
My other favorites this past year were LOUIE, BREAKING BAD, JUSTIFIED (even though I'm only a few episodes into the season, playing catch-up), THE HOUR, BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD, SUITS, and the late, lamented (by me) LIGHTS OUT.
Jay! Emily Nussbaum reviwing "Revenge" in The New Yorker writes: "Douglas Sirk for the age of Botox."
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