Film Reviews

Movie Review – Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football

September 12, 2011

Playing in select AMC theaters for a limited period of time, the documentary Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football follows the football team of Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan in the days leading up to their big game against their rivals from Dearborn High in September of 2009. In a city with many Muslims and Arabs, [...]

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A Few Words About Captain America

July 29, 2011

I saw Captain America: The First Avenger last weekend (yeah, this post is slightly late) and I liked it more than I thought I would. There were two reasons why I was a bit hesitant to like this movie: 1) Wasn’t Captain America created purely for pro-US propaganda reasons? 2) Captain America is a Marvel [...]

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Lesson From The Taqwacores – Being Accepting and All That Good Stuff

March 21, 2011

I caught the movie The Taqwacores this past Friday as part of the SF Asian Film Festival at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. The film, interestingly enough, is about a group of Muslim punks. I’m not into punk at all. I’m more of a post-rock Explosions in the Sky type of girl, and yet, [...]

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Restrepo and War

December 15, 2010

I just watched Restrepo streaming on Netflix. Directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, Restrepo can be seen as a supplement to Junger’s book War, which was released earlier this year. Both the documentary and the book revolve around the same group of soldiers on deployment in Afghanistan, more specifically, soldiers stationed in the Korangal [...]

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“Are you down with the brown?”*

May 2, 2010

Earlier this week, I was wasting my time on the internet. Y’all know how that is. Somehow, I found myself on the Wikipedia page of Zachary Levi, the star of one of my favorite shows Chuck. I looked over his filmography and noticed that in one movie, he played a character named “Ray Rehman”. Rehman? [...]

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Checking Out “3 Idiots”

January 16, 2010

I caught the Bollywood film 3 Idiots last week, making it my 2nd Indian movie in as many weeks. Funny enough, this was more than I’ve seen in the past couple of years. Even more surprising, I saw it at the Indian movie theater in Fremont, a place I avoid going at all costs. I [...]

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Top 10 Movies of. The. Decade.

December 30, 2009

A lot of sites are not only writing about their “Top 10s” of the past year, but of the past decade. So I thought, why not do that too? I mean, my opinion is just as valid as anyone else’s. I’ll give you a second to stop laughing… Here it is, my “Top 10″ of [...]

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My Late Review of Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

November 15, 2009

The latest straight to DVD DC animated movie came out on DVD a while ago and I didn’t really have a moment to talk about it. So here goes… Superman/Batman: Public Enemies was what I was waiting for to be the animated movie to elevate Superman on my list of DC animated movies. While Superman:Doomsday [...]

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Where The Wild Things Are (No Spoilers)

October 1, 2009

I was lucky enough to catch a screening of Where the Wild Things Are last night at the Metreon in San Francisco. Author Dave Eggers, who co-wrote the screenplay was in attendence and said a few words before the start of the movie and a Q&A with director Spike Jonze, actress Catherine Keener (‘Mom’) and [...]

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Green Lantern: First Flight

August 19, 2009

I watched Green Lantern: First Flight over the weekend, a DC Animated film. These movies have always been enjoyable and this latest installment in the franchise is no exception. Test pilot Hal Jordan assumes the Green Lantern mantle from the late Green Lantern, Abin Sur within the first couple of minutes of First Flight and [...]

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