Alex Barkett

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• Posted Weekend Watch: Read it and Weep to Culture/Entertainment
  This'll be my last weekend watch post. Murder in Fashion -- The Roxie "In this ripped-from-the-headlines drama, gay party regular and aging boy toy...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Survival of the Fittest, Most Colorful to Culture/Entertainment
  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus -- Sundance Kabuki, AMC Van Ness, AMC Metreon Terry Gilliam returns to the fray with this colorful and star-studded...
• Posted Foreign Movie Too Romanian To Define: Police, Adjective to Culture/Entertainment
  The Romanian director, Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), has made a cop movie. There are lots of different kinds of cop movies. Stylish...
• Posted I Don't Tell You How To Suck: The Book of Eli to Culture/Entertainment
  I recently read a movie critic claim that other critics shouldn't describe movies by relating them to other movies, which is what I will...
• Posted Weekend Watch: I Promise, I'll See Avatar, Leave Me Alone to Culture/Entertainment
  The Book of Eli -- AMC Metreon, Van Ness, Sundance Kabuki Gary Oldman? Yes. Denzel? Sure. Shotguns and rocket launchers? Oh if you insist....
• Posted No More Funny Games: The White Ribbon to Culture/Entertainment
  I was playing ping pong with a guy the other day who said, "I mean, I watch a lot of movies, but I don't...
• Posted Weekend Watch: That Does Sound Revolting to Culture/Entertainment
  Oh lord, another week. Don't they just seem to hurtle one after another without even a pause for refreshment? It's really no way to...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Special New Years Edition to Culture/Entertainment
  Movie distributors have taken the weekend off to party. I guess that's what happens when New Years falls on a Friday. It's rough out...
• Posted The 26th Hour: The Missing Person to Culture/Entertainment
  The Missing Person is a private eye story - no two ways about that. He wakes up to the sound of the phone ringing....
• Posted Weekend Watch: But It Sounds Complicated to Culture/Entertainment
  Sherlock Holmes -- Century Centre 9, Sundance Kabuki I never realized Sherlock Holmes was James Bond. Website. Nine -- The Castro, AMC Metreon, AMC...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Alien Creatures Invade to Culture/Entertainment
  Avatar -- AMC Metreon IMAX, AMC Van Ness It's a 250 million dollar Last of the Mohicans in space. What part of that am...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Rainy Weekends Are Gay to Culture/Entertainment
  Desperately Seeking Susan, Silent Film Festival, The Wizard of Oz -- Castro Theatre How's this for a Friday/Saturday/Sunday lineup? It's like they sandwiched nap...
• Posted Weekend Watch: These Are Not Recommendations to Culture/Entertainment
  View image Up in the Air -- Century Centre 9 This all came about because Jason Reitman saw the "single serving life" speech from Fight...
• Posted Weekend Watch: I Stare At Cows to Culture/Entertainment
  This will be my last movie post for a few weeks. I'm going to the UK to wander around. Wish me luck! Katie Ann...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Halloween Edition to Culture/Entertainment
  That's what I did when I saw what Halloween movies were screening this weekend. Did my team of manservant lackeys miss something or are...
• Posted DocFest: Trimpin to Culture/Entertainment
  Have you ever gone to the park and seen a scrappy man pressing a handful of leaves to his ear? A lost German beating...
• Posted Weekend Watch: I Wrote This Wearing A Monocle to Culture/Entertainment
  Ghostbusters -- The Red Vic What do you say to this harbinger of good tidings, this eight-ball vision of justice, this love poem to...
• Posted Appealing Events: ATA Film & Video Festival to Culture/Entertainment
  Little known fact. There are actually more film festivals per year in San Francisco than there are days. And here's another one. The ATA Film...
• Posted Interview With 'An Education' Director Lone Scherfig to Culture/Entertainment
  Lone Scherfig is an acclaimed Danish film director. She was a member of the Dogme95 group started by Lars von Trier that traded acting...
• Posted The Mind Is A Scary Place: Where The Wild Things Are to Culture/Entertainment
  When Spike Jonze comes up in conversation, girls in knee socks twinkle and shake. They go all aglow. Guys in knee socks too, for...
• Posted Remember Your Safety Words, Ladies: An Education to Culture/Entertainment
  Yep, you guessed it, another instructional manual for picking up high school chicks. About time, really. An Education is about a 16 year old...
• Posted Weekend Watch: What The Hell Is Going On? to Culture/Entertainment
  Where The Wild Things Are -- Metreon, AMC Van Ness I saw this thing a couple days ago. It's very confusing. That's probably the...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Finding Ourselves In The Wrong Places to Culture/Entertainment
  We Live In Public -- The Roxie This one time I set up webcams all over my house to record my entire life. Playing...
• Commented on A Cinematic Kick To The Groin: Whip It
  Zoe Bell is the best part of the movie. I'm hard on it here. It's exactly like you'd expect from the preview. Fun, cliche. I'm so disappointing with movies this decade that I'm apologizing for being hard on Whip It....
• Posted A Cinematic Kick To The Groin: Whip It to Culture/Entertainment
  Drew Barrymore wrote Whip It. Typically, writers work on a computer, maybe with a pen and paper. I dictate to servants while they prepare...
• Posted Weekend Watch: In Case You're Not A Bluegrass Techno Fan to Culture/Entertainment
  The Lost Boys - The Castro It's easy to forget about the oiled up buff guy playing saxophone in this movie. Too easy. I...
• Posted Huff, Puff And I'll Blow Your House Down: The Burning Plain to Culture/Entertainment
  Charlize Theron. Death. Mexicans. Adultery. Wasn't that guy in Sex and the City? Arson. Unnecessarily naked blond women. Murder. Plane crash. Mexicans. Robin Tunney?...
• Commented on Weekend Watch: It Takes A Lot Of Grapes To Make Grapeseed Oil
  High smoke points sound delicious. I'll probably just drink it straight. Thanks for the info, I'll check it out....
• Posted Weekend Watch: It Takes A Lot Of Grapes To Make Grapeseed Oil to Culture/Entertainment
  Surrogates -- AMC Metreon A simple parting of the hair can do wonders to soften one's image. Website. Pandorum -- AMC Van Ness, Metreon...
• Posted Martin Scorsese Marathon At The Castro Theatre to Culture/Entertainment
  I don't normally write movie event posts. See, I never really leave the house and neither should you. What do I need that's outside? I've...