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Tag Archives: Jeremy Renner
December 2017 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 11 (2015-16) What an incredible season, right up until the moment …. it was not an incredible season. I hadn’t re-watched in its entirety since it aired, although I cherry-picked favorite episodes to re-watch (of which there are … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Coen brothers, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, documentary, Elizabeth Taylor, France, Garrett Hedlund, Georgia, Jack Kerouac, Jean Renoir, Jeremy Renner, John Huston, Julie Harris, Kentucker Audley, Margaret Atwood, Marlon Brando, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Gere, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Supernatural, women directors, Zodiac
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American Hustle (2013); Directed by David O. Russell
I don’t know, man. I’m not seeing it. I’m not seeing what others are seeing. I am on board with this article, although I didn’t like Amy Adams as much as he did. I enjoyed the performances tremendously, everyone is … Continue reading
Boys I Love
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. Today it’s a toss-up.
Jeremy Renner: The Sociopath/The Hero
My new piece on Jeremy Renner just went up at Fandor. Go check it out! An actor with a big range, although it may not be apparent yet in the roles he’s getting. He can go antisocial, he can go … Continue reading
Psychopaths and morality: Jeremy Renner and Sissy Spacek
Fascinating article called Psychopaths and Rational Morality: The Frontal Cortex, with an even better conversation going on in the comments. Go read the whole thing, it’s very interesting. It is one of my obsessions: psychopaths, antisocial personalities, whatever name you … Continue reading
Snapshots
— Sometimes I look up from what I am doing and I see Hope across the room staring at me, and there is a look of such coiled contempt in her eyes that I want to run fleeing into the … Continue reading
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Tagged family, Hope, Iran, Iranian film, Jafar Panahi, Jeremy Renner, Mulholland Drive, Offside, Rebecca West, Ron Chernow, snapshots
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Dahmer (2002); Dir: David Jacobson
Shot in only 23 days, David Jacobson’s Dahmer (he wrote and directed it) caused a lot of flak when it came out. Dahmer was shown as a human being, as opposed to a villain from a comic book. Because that’s … Continue reading
Sheriff Jeremy Renner
Pink rides into a dusty ole frontier town, ready to stir up some “Trouble”, High Noon style (the shot of her coming through the town gates a direct steal of that famous shot in High Noon). The town trembles at … Continue reading Continue reading