Ice Cream Man Forever

Week of January 17, 2012

2012-01-23T08:04:00.001-08:00

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (**)

Week of January 13, 2012

2012-01-15T17:26:00.000-08:00

The Fisher King (**)
Tree of Life (***)
Clockwise (**1/2)
Fawlty Towers (***1/2)

Week of January 5, 2012

2012-01-09T06:43:00.001-08:00

Tuesday after Christmas (***)
Harry Potter (last movie) (**1/2)

Week of December 25, 2011

2011-12-27T06:29:00.000-08:00

Due Date (**1/2)
A Celebration (***1/2)
The Descendants (***)
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (**1/2)

Week of December 9, 2011

2011-12-11T17:42:00.000-08:00

The Hunger (***)
A Christmas Carol (Jim Carrey) (**1/2)
To Live and Die in L.A. (**1/2)

Week of December 2, 2011

2011-12-05T13:23:00.001-08:00

Super 8 (**1/2)

Week of November 23, 2011

2011-11-27T15:52:00.001-08:00

The Muppets (**1/2)
Bridesmaids (**)

Week of November 17, 2011

2011-11-21T08:16:00.001-08:00

Bad Teacher (**)
Pusher (***1/2)
Bronson (***1/2)

Week of November 10, 2011

2011-11-14T06:32:00.000-08:00

In a Better World (***)
Immortality (**)
Man on Wire (**1/2)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Ravel/Prokofiev/Roussel

Week of November 4, 2011

2011-11-07T06:38:00.003-08:00

Win Win (***)

Week of

2011-11-07T06:38:00.001-08:00

Week of October 28, 2011

2011-10-31T06:51:00.001-07:00

The Mummy (**1/2)
Cooley High (***)

Week of October 20, 2011

2011-10-24T06:34:00.000-07:00

Eccentricities of a Blond Haired Girl (**1/2)
Scream 4 (**1/2)
Horrible Bosses (**)
The Devil Within Her (*1/2 so bad it's good)
Desperado (**)

Week of October 10, 2011

2011-10-16T17:58:00.000-07:00

The Nesting (**1/2)
Insidious (***)
The Wire: Season 5 (***1/2)
El Mariachi(**1/2)

Week of October 1, 2011

2011-10-03T06:38:00.001-07:00

The Wire: Season 4 (***1/2)

Week of September 20, 2011

2011-09-26T06:49:00.000-07:00

The Wire: Season 3 (****)

Week of September 15, 2011

2011-09-19T06:37:00.000-07:00

Bergman Island (***1/2)
Drive (***)
Lincoln Lawyer (**1/2)

Week of September 9, 2011

2011-09-12T11:29:00.001-07:00

The Wire: Season 2 (***1/2)

Week of September 1, 2011

2011-09-06T06:28:00.001-07:00

Lips of Blood (**1/2)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (**1/2)

Week of August 25, 2011

2011-08-29T06:26:00.001-07:00

Trading Places (**1/2)
127 Hours (***1/2)

Week of August 10, 2011

2011-08-15T06:25:00.000-07:00

Half Nelson (**1/2)
Accatone (**1/2)

Week of August 1, 2011

2011-08-07T17:40:00.001-07:00

Children of Heaven (***)
Bridge on the River Kwai (***1/2)
The Wire: Season 1 (***1/2)

Week of July 23, 2011

2011-07-25T06:35:00.000-07:00

The Long Good Friday (***1/2)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (***1/2)

Week of July 16, 2011

2011-07-18T06:22:00.000-07:00

Barney's Version (**1/2)
Winnie the Pooh (***)

Week of July 9, 2011

2011-07-10T15:40:00.000-07:00

Somewhere (**)
Another Year (***1/2)
Wings of the Dove (***)

Week of July 4, 2011

2011-07-05T06:46:00.000-07:00

Lost in la Mancha (***1/2)
Masculin Feminine (***)
Tallhotblond (***1/2)
13 Conversations about One Thing (***)
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (**)
Beat the Devil (**1/2)

Week of June 23, 2011

2011-06-27T06:30:00.001-07:00

Catfish (***)
The Verdict (***)
Presumed Innocent (***)
True Grit (***)
I've Loved You So Long (**1/2)
Biutiful (***)

Week of June 12, 2011

2011-06-20T08:05:00.000-07:00

Cocaine Cowboys (***1/2) and Cocaine Cowboys 2 (**1/2)
Down to the Bone (**1/2)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (***)

Week of June 3, 2011

2011-06-06T06:19:00.000-07:00

Toy Story 3 (***1/2)
Blue Valentine (***1/2)
Conversations with Other Women (**)

Week of May 28, 2011

2011-05-31T06:40:00.001-07:00

The Switch (**)
Date Night (couldn't finish it)
Toy Story (***)
Toy Story 2 (***)
The King's Speech (***)

Week of May 20, 2011

2011-05-23T06:24:00.001-07:00

The Sweet Hereafter (***)
The Shop on Mainstreet (***)
Whip It (**)
How to Train Your Dragon (***)

Week of May 13, 2011

2011-05-16T06:45:00.001-07:00

Derailed (**)

Week of May 6, 2011

2011-05-09T06:39:00.000-07:00

The Clearing (**1/2)
Monsters v. Aliens (**1/2)

Week of April 10, 2011

2011-04-12T06:48:00.001-07:00

OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies (**1/2)

Week of April 1, 2011

2011-04-04T06:27:00.001-07:00

La Notte (***)

Week of March 24, 2011

2011-03-27T17:24:00.000-07:00

The Fighter *** Rolling Thunder ***1/2

Week of March 11, 2011

2011-03-13T14:20:00.001-07:00

Cold Weather (**1/2)
Solitary Man (**1/2)
Gunslinger's Revenge (*1/2)

Week of March 4, 2011

2011-03-07T06:33:00.000-08:00

Somewhere in Time (**)
Liverpool (**1/2)
Autumn Sonata (***)
Lilya 4-ever (***1/2)

Week of February 25, 2011

2011-02-27T16:11:00.001-08:00

Machete (**1/2)
The Other Guys (**)
Walking and Talking (***)
Feeling Minnesota (**)
The American (**1/2)

Week of February 18, 2011

2011-02-20T16:42:00.001-08:00

The Social Network (***1/2)
Let Me In (***)
Paranormal Activity 2 (**1/2)
Metropolitan (**)

Week of February 10, 2011

2011-02-13T19:11:00.000-08:00

Malena (***)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (**)
The Children are Watching Us (***)
The Secret in Their Eyes (**1/2)

Week of February 1, 2011

2011-02-07T06:38:00.000-08:00

Saraband (**1/2)
Wild Grass (**1/2)
Buried (***1/2)
The Salton Sea (**)

Week of January 28, 2011

2011-01-31T06:45:00.000-08:00

Scenes from a Marriage (***)
Sweetgrass (***)

Week of January 20, 2011

2011-01-24T06:46:00.001-08:00

The Last Exorcism (**1/2)
Pirahna (remake) (??)

Week of January 11, 2011

2011-01-17T06:50:00.001-08:00

Red Riding Trilogy (***1/2)
Mother (Korean) (***1/2)

Week of January 1, 2011

2011-01-08T05:50:00.000-08:00

About Last Night... (**)
The Town (***1/2)
Madame Chambon (***)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (***)

Last Weeks of 2010

2010-12-30T06:36:00.000-08:00

Dancer in the Dark (***)
The Crazies (**1/2)
Best Worst Movie (***)

Week of December 10, 2010

2010-12-13T06:54:00.000-08:00

Inception (**)
Black Swan (****)
You Can Count on Me (**)
Memories of Murder (***)

Last week of November, First Week of December, 2011

2010-12-06T06:41:00.001-08:00

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (***)
It's Complicated (**)
Get Him to the Greek (**)
Raising Victor Vargas (***)
The Dead Girl (***)
Dracula, Pages from a Virgin's Diary (**1/2)

Week of November 12, 2010

2010-11-14T17:00:00.001-08:00

The Witches (**)
The Black Cat (*1/2)
Winter's Bone (***)
Flash Forward (TV) (***)

Week of October 31 and November 6, 2010

2010-11-08T06:46:00.000-08:00

Silent Night, Bloody Night (**1/2)
From Beyond (***)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (**1/2)
The Boys are Back (**)

Week of October 22, 2010

2010-10-24T15:45:00.000-07:00

The Eyes of Laura Mars (**)
Vincere (**1/2)
Black Candles (**)

Week of October 11, 2010

2010-10-17T17:31:00.000-07:00

Jagged Edge (**1/2)
Sins of My Father (***)
Delicatessen (**)
Carmen Jones (*1/2)

Week of October 3, 2010

2010-10-04T06:26:00.001-07:00

Session 9 (***)
Dirty Money (**1/2)
Summertime (**)
Crazy Heart (**1/2)

Week of September 17, 2010

2010-09-19T17:27:00.001-07:00

Dirty Pretty Things (***)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (***)
Eroica (BBC) (**)
The Kids Are All Right (***)

Week of September 10, 2010

2010-09-12T18:20:00.000-07:00

Splendour in the Grass (***)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (***)

Week of September 3, 2010

2010-09-07T06:46:00.001-07:00

Wisconsin Dells Vacation
The Joy Luck Club (**1/2)
Cyrus (**1/2)
Youth in Revolt (**1/2)

Week of August 28, 2010

2010-08-29T18:26:00.001-07:00

Babies (**1/2)
You Kill Me (**1/2)
Melo (**1/2)

Week of August 20, 2010

2010-08-23T08:07:00.000-07:00

Mahler Symphony No. 2 at Millenium Park
Fear of Fear (**1/2)
Sullivan's Travels (**1/2)

Week of August 15, 2010

2010-08-16T08:29:00.001-07:00

Bocaccio '70 (parts 1 and 2) (**1/2)
Women Behind Bars (**)
The Snake Pit (**1/2)

Week of August 6, 2010

2010-08-08T16:22:00.000-07:00

Oedipus Rex (Pasolini version) (***)
The Ghost Writer (***)
Life During Wartime (*)

Week of July 31, 2010

2010-08-02T06:45:00.001-07:00

Nathalie (**)
Frozen River (***)
True Blood: Season 2 (***)

Week of July 24, 2010

2010-07-26T06:45:00.001-07:00

Chloe (**)
A Single Man (***)

Week of July 15, 2010

2010-07-18T16:15:00.001-07:00

Wrong Move (***)
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 7 (***1/2)
The White Ribbon (***1/2)
Greenberg (**)

Week of July 9, 2010

2010-07-13T09:54:00.000-07:00

Hot Tub Time Machine (**1/2)
Alice in Wonderland (didn't watch it carefully enough to review)

Week of July 4, 2010

2010-07-05T17:19:00.000-07:00

Breaking Bad: Seasons 2 and 3 (****)

Week of June 26, 2010

2010-06-28T06:35:00.001-07:00

Scream...and Die (a.k.a. The House That Vanished) (**)
Breaking Bad (Season 1) (****)

Week of June 18, 2010

2010-06-20T19:11:00.000-07:00

Hoop Dreams (****)

Week of June 10, 2010

2010-06-13T08:19:00.001-07:00

Sleepaway Camp (* 1/2 so bad that it's good)
Shutter Island (***1/2)

Week of June 6, 2010

2010-06-06T17:21:00.000-07:00

Food, Inc. (***)
Grown Ups (Mike Leigh made for TV movie) (***)
The Color of Money (**1/2)
The Fury (**1/2)

Last Two Weeks of May, 2010

2010-05-31T18:46:00.000-07:00

The Innocents (**1/2)
Shoot the Piano Player (***)
Galena Vacation

Week of May12, 2010

2010-05-16T17:01:00.001-07:00

Summer Hours (***1/2)
House of Whipcord (***)
The Warriors (***)

Week of April 26, 2010

2010-05-01T19:49:00.000-07:00

Precious (**1/2)
Lola Montes (***)
The White Sheik (***)
An Education (***)

Week of April 15, 2010

2010-04-18T15:11:00.000-07:00

Zoolander (***)
The Lovers (***)
Serious Man (***)
Roller Boogie (**)

Week of April 4, 2010

2010-04-05T06:30:00.000-07:00

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (**1/2)
The Eroticist (*1/2)

Week of March 24, 2010

2010-03-28T18:34:00.000-07:00

Love Unto Death (**1/2)
Couples Retreat (**)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (***)

Week of March 18, 2010

2010-03-21T19:18:00.000-07:00

Revanche (***1/2)

Week of March 12, 2010

2010-03-14T18:49:00.001-07:00

Atlantic City (***1/2)

Week of March 4, 2010

2010-03-07T17:41:00.000-08:00

In the Loop (***)
How Green Was My Valley (***1/2)

Last Two Weeks of February, 2010

2010-02-28T19:41:00.000-08:00

The Hurt Locker (**1/2)
Murmur of the Heart (***)
Stepfather (remake) (**1/2)
Sorority Row (**1/2)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (***1/2)
Blame in On Rio (**)

Week of February 14, 2010

2010-02-15T06:43:00.000-08:00

Casque D'Or (***)
Le Vie en Rose (** to **1/2)

Week of February 6, 2010

2010-02-08T09:35:00.001-08:00

Mail Order Wife (***)
Night and Fog (***)

Week of January 31, 2010

2010-01-31T16:52:00.000-08:00

Something Wild (**1/2)
The Invention of Lying (**)
A Face in the Crowd (***)
Grey Gardens (TV) (**1/2)

Week of January 20, 2010

2010-01-24T17:37:00.000-08:00

Big Love: Season 3 (***1/2)
L'Eclisse (***)

End of 2009 and First Week of Jan 2010

2010-01-10T13:06:00.000-08:00

Baby Julia Born (12/31)

Undeclared (**1/2)
Le Trou (***)
Kiss of Death (***)
Dear Zachary (**1/2)
The Thief of Bagdad (**1/2)
Adventureland (***)
The Hitch-Hiker (**1/2)
High Sierra (**)
Two Lovers (*1/2)

Week of December 25, 2009

2009-12-27T19:20:00.001-08:00

Up in the Air (***1/2)
Broken Embraces (**1/2)
The Golden Coach (***)
Police, Adjective (***)
World's Greatest Dad (***)
The Hangover (**1/2)
500 Days of Summer (**1/2)

Week of December 16, 2009

2009-12-22T07:45:00.001-08:00

Baby Doll (**1/2)

Week of December 4, 2009

2009-12-06T20:19:00.000-08:00

Up (***)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (***)
Gone with the Wind (**1/2)

Week of November 27, 2009

2009-11-29T19:33:00.001-08:00

Ride the High Country (***)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (***1/2)
The Killer Elite (**)
The Addams Family: the Musical (**)
The Stepford Wives (original) (**1/2)

Week of November 20, 2009

2009-11-22T15:19:00.000-08:00

Quinceneara (**1/2)
The Puffy Chair (***)
Same Old Song (***)

Week of November 11, 2009

2009-11-16T06:26:00.001-08:00

Cross of Iron (**)
House of the Devil (***)

Week of November 1, 2009

2009-11-08T19:56:00.001-08:00

Freaks & Geeks (***1/2)
Stavisky (***)
Love Actually (**)

Week of October 20, 2009

2009-10-25T17:34:00.001-07:00

Drag Me To Hell (***)
Antichrist (***)

Week of October 17, 2009

2009-10-18T18:56:00.000-07:00

Papillon (***)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (***)

Week of October 10, 2009

2009-10-11T15:32:00.000-07:00

Zombieland (***1/2)
Paranormal Activity (***)
Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (***)
Funhouse (**1/2)
Trick R' Treat (**1/2)

Week of October 3, 2009

2009-10-04T15:51:00.000-07:00

Paper Moon (***)
Barton Fink (***)

Week of September 25, 2009

2009-09-27T17:57:00.000-07:00

The Bad and the Beautiful (***)
Observe and Report (***)
La Belle Captive (**1/2)
Love Story (**1/2)

Week of September 18, 2009

2009-09-20T18:32:00.000-07:00

The Constant Gardener (**1/2)
Sansho the Baliff (***)
The Informant (***1/2)

Week of September 5, 2009

2009-09-07T18:23:00.001-07:00

Archie Shepp at Jazz Festival
Extract (***)
Maria Full of Grace (***)
Midnight Meat Train (**)

Week of August 28, 2009

2009-08-30T17:58:00.000-07:00

Big Trouble in Little China (*1/2)
Made in U.S.A. (**1/2)
Nights and Weekends (*)
Time After Time (**1/2)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (**1/2)