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Best of 2005

My 2005 Top 10 (updated 2/11/2006):
1. Millions
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. Sin City
4. Syriana
5. Good Night, and Good Luck.
6. Match Point
7. Munich
8. Batman Begins
9. Jarhead
10. The Constant Gardener
Take this with a grain of salt, though. I’ve still got some films to see. King Kong and Revenge of the Thithhhhh don’t really belong on this list, […]

X Files, The (1998)


Psycho (1960)


Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)


Saw II (2005)


Xmas Movie 2005

Even more fun than actually going to the annual Xmas Movie, is the months-long nomination and selection process of said Xmas Movie. Normally. This year—the fourteenth year of the Xmas Movie, by the way—was a different story. Not that there’s a lack of good movies in theatres right now, but the three […]

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

The 2005 Xmas Movie — read my summary of this year’s selection process which includes some thoughts on the film and ranks among the xmas movies of years past.

I was thirteen when I saw My Girl, a romantic melodrama made for the sole purpose of jerking the tears right out of teenage girls and their mothers, starring Dan Aykroyd and Macaulay Culkin. It tells the overwrought, saccharin story of Vada Sultenfuss (I’m not making this up), an eleven-year-old girl whose mother has […]

Syriana (2005)


Sideways (2004)

Yes, I liked it better the second time.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)


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King Kong (1933)


Sideways (2004)


Millions (2004)


Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)


Black Belt

“I don’t ever want to see either of you in here again,” said Officer Sanderson, the straight-out-of-70’s-porn, it’s-part-of-the-uniform-ma’am moustache barely moving above his lip. “Now, beat it.”
And there we were, banished from The Gap for life. The Roman Polanskis of middle-class fashion. The Andrew Dice Clays of pretentious, overpriced, “pre-weathered” jeans.
Alisia and […]

Batman Begins (2005) / ****


Batman (1989)


Cars (2006) Trailer

There’s finally a full trailer out for Pixar’s Cars (2006). Check it out.

Interpreter, The (2005)

Friday Night at the Fens

I really just can’t take this. And, to be honest with you, I’m sort of sick of it. For a few years there (1998, ‘99, and, to an extent, 2000), watching the Yankees was fun because they just flat out won. Except that that’s mostly untrue, too. The ‘98 and ‘99 […]

Good Is Dead.

Okay, so, the guy’s my hero, at least in my chosen field (as he is for a lot of people who do what I do). He’s the most famous graphic designer in the world. USA Today called him “the closest thing to a rock star” in the industry. He’s written a novel […]

The Case Against Eating

The white plastic toilet seat is somehow tacky enough with the left-behind goop of its previous occupants to chafe my thighs at the same time as it’s almost too slippery with my own cold sweat to prevent me from sliding right into the bowl. A wave of teeth-grinding abdominal pain has just passed, and […]

New Gift Cards

This is, of course, the first iteration of this year’s template, and this is definitely a proprietary image, but I wanted to show it off anyway, ’cause I like it:

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Here’re two more, Cinderella (1950) and King Kong (1933):

In the interest of covering all my bases, these gift card designs are owned by and © TJV […]

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Walk the Plank

Today, September 19th, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so, imagine yourself with an eyepatch, a peg leg, and a ship all your own (except for the part where you stole it from someone else) and, you know, talk like a pirate today, damn it. Or you’ll have to swab the deck, or […]

Unfinished Life, An (2005)


Sahara (2005)


After the Sunset (2004)


Crash (2004)


Clerks. (1994)


Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut (2004)


Layer Cake (2004)