ONE SENTENCE REVIEW

Wall-E!

The goodness of this one cannot be bottled into a single sentence.

ONE SENTENCE REVIEW

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, NY

In spite of the shear volume of stunning images, provocative conceits, and disturbing action, each idea felt out of socket, and that made this one painful.

ONE SENTENCE REVIEW

Step Brothers.

Not bad for a period piece set in 18th century Ukrainian countryside.

Vaguely recommended.

ONE SENTENCE REVIEW

Tropic Thunder, starring Kenny Powers, the Jew-y Tenenbaum, and Maverick.

Not quite the Zoolander II: Rise of the Machines I dreamed in my dreams, but the deep-in-the-shit reprisal of the dreaded, Mugatu-employed Evil DJ made me smile.

Casually Recommended.

WET HOT

Here's a map of Camp Towanda, marked with all the actual shooting locations of the film Wet Hot American Summer, which you can totally enjoy in its entirety on YouTube! Courtesy of WHAS writer David Wain.

If I were to write a one-sentence-review of this movie, it would be something like: "Someday, when surly alien species' plant spores in our eyes and use our central nervous systems to enjoy strange new alien prop-comedy, they will first know sadness upon discovering none of said humor surpasses the obscene greatness of Wet Hot American Summer."

ONE SENTENCE REVIEW

Juliet Of The Spirits, Federico Fellini's first color film. Also my first Netflix rental.

Like birth, Fellini actualizes life as a sudden myth, a land of strange hats and social systems (canopy tanning?), all startling, mysterious, and deeply susceptible to the idiosyncrasies of the self.

Highly recommended.