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You can read my reviews in the Baltimore City Paper.
reviews in bold = personal favorites
FILM
The Counterfeiters
Chicago 10
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
The Spiderwick Chronicles
In Bruges
Caramel
Sweeney Todd
Things We Lost In The Fire
Across The Universe
Trailer Trash: A Film Journal
The 11th Hour
Rocket Science
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Stardust
Perfume: The Story of A Murderer
Night At The Museum
Best of 2006: The Queen
Apocalypto
The Holiday
The Nativity Story
The Prestige
Flicka
Infamous
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
Keeping Mum
Flyboys
Heart Of The Game
How To Eat Fried Worms
Strangers With Candy
Clerks II
Monster House
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Wordplay
Cars
The Break-Up
X-Men: The Last Stand
Maryland Film Festival:The Call of Cthulhu, Narrative Shorts: Metaphysics, The Scent of Green Papaya
The Promise
Brick
The Wild
Duck Season
Ultraviolet
Failure To Launch
Boys of Baraka
Hoodwinked
Brokeback Mountain
Popmatters Best of 2005: Capote
Best of 2005: Batman Begins
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Yours, Mine and Ours
Zathura
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Elizabethtown
Corpse Bride
Roll Bounce
Valiant
The Bad News Bears
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
--full review in Weekly Dig (Boston)
The Honeymooners
Cinderella Man
Goodfellas
The 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T
King's Ransom
Kung Fu Hustle
A Lot Like Love
Millions
Nobody Knows
Diary Of A Mad Black Woman
Les Choristes
Because Of Winn Dixie
House of Flying Daggers
Coach Carter
Godzilla (1954)
Beyond The Sea
Flight Of The Phoenix
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Bridget Jones 2: The Edge Of Reason
The Polar Express
Around The Bend
The Final Cut
Woman Thou Art Loosed
Ladder 49
Bright Young Things
Silver City
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
Evergreen
A Cinderella Story
King Arthur
Napoleon Dynamite
Two Brothers
The Notebook
Shrek 2
DVDS
House of Games
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema from 1928-1954
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Skin For Sale
Horrors Of Malformed Men
Boy Culture
Taxi Driver: Two-Disc Collectors Edition
Performance
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show - The Complete Series
Tears Of The Black Tiger
Showgirls
All My Babies
The Naked City
Ed Wood: A Salute To Incompetence
Shortbus
Eddie Murphy - Delirious
Yojimbo/Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films By Akira Kurosawa
BOOKS
Sperm Counts: Overcome By Man's Most Precious Fluid
The Chess Machine
Best of 2006: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life
Doing Nothing
Sweet And Low
The Mercy Room
The Only Game In Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About The Game They Loved
Gypsy Hot Bloods
When You Lunch With The Emperor
J.G. Ballard Quotes and Conversations
Best of 2005: The Men Who Stare At Goats
Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution
Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
The Underdog: How I Survived The World’s Most Outlandish Competitions
Garbage Land
Funny Little Monkey
The People Of Paper
Snakes And Earrings
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Goodbye, Goodness
The Disappointment Artist
K.
Puff
In The Shadow Of Fame
My Father's Rifle
Wrong About Japan
ART
Best of 2006: Transmodern Age, Raymond Loewy
Adornment?
Extraordinary Bodies
What Sound Does A Color Make?
Best of 2005: Art
Blur of the Otherworldly
School 33:The River, New Work, Ex Libris
Medium at Area 405 (third story down)
TV
Best of 2005: Arrested Development