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City of God

I really wanted to watch this with a friend, but as both of has have the decision making abilities of oxen, we kept leaving it at “We’ll watch it next week” and thus the year ended and I flew home having never gotten around to watching it. It’s seriously sad too; we’ve had the DVD [...]

2004

May

Posted by Matt at 11:25 pm
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Jersey Girl

I’ve had to give myself a few days to digest this one. I should preface all of this by saying that I really do enjoy Kevin Smith. Despite his weak direction, I’ve always found him to be a tremendously adept writer, especially of dialogue and character, to the point where I would probably still put [...]

2004

Apr

Posted by Matt at 11:10 am
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Top 10 films of 2003

Hooray! Films! I realize most people find these kind of dull, but I feel they are important for posterity’s sake. When I look back upon my life, I want to be able to instantly know what my favourite films were in any given year. I feel this will be helpful when I am a crotchety old [...]

2004

Jan

Posted by Matt at 03:59 am
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Best films of 2002, revised

This is mostly for posterity’s sake, and because I quite enjoy writing about film, but here for your consideration are my ten best of 2002. You’ll note that I said 2002 and not 2003. The latter is coming — I just need time to view everything! I posted a tenuous list back of films back around [...]

2003

Dec