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Gran Torino

January 10th, 2009 by Myrhaf · 7 Comments · Movie Reviews

Clint Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a retired auto worker in  Detroit. He is a crotchety old man and a racist, the last white guy in a neighborhood that now has Hmong immigrants from Laos. Kowalski calls them slopes, zips and other epithets.

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The Dark Knight

December 13th, 2008 by Myrhaf · 11 Comments · Movie Reviews

Last night I watched The Dark Knight on DVD. I found it to be entirely loathsome. I won’t bother you with the plot, which did not make much sense to me. The movie is dark and malevolent, a world of nihilism and pain. It had the sense of life of Metallica lyrics or what I […]

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