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Category: Movies

Me and Paul Giamatti

American Splendor Sideways American Splendor is about a guy like me, a semi-successful semi-loser writer from Cleveland After identifying way too much with Sideways I

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Eastern Promises

Let me admit up front that coming after David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen’s masterwork, A History of Violence, maybe my expectations were a bit too

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16 Blocks

See – The Gauntlet https://bradlaidman.com/?p=118 Same damn movie bus and all. I liked it but still.

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Glory Road

Man, I hate getting burned by movies “based” on true stories. Have we not advanced a step since Cary Grant pretended to be straight both

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Leni Riefenstahl

I have a friend named Grant Taylor, who used to be a standup comedian. My favorite one liner of his went something like “Hitler liked

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