Popcorn & Candy: Pottymouth

Quite a flurry of activity to close out the week.

We'll start with Fringe. Two final reviews to close out my coverage there:

Freud Meets Girl
Eight

Heading over to NPR, we've got a review of the adaptation of Beverly Cleary's Ramona books, Ramona and Beezus.

And, over on DCist, two reviews:

Alain Resnais' Wild Grassand ( Read more... )

Two Fringe & Purge reviews for today:

The Von Pufferhütte Family Singers! (the musical)

The Horrors of Online Dating

Two reviews for Friday:

A Fringe & Purge review of The Tragical Life of Eleanor Bloom

and

over on DCist, the review I think people have told me they were looking forward to more often than anything else I've ever written, of Christopher Nolan's Inception.

I'll be back to posting way too many Fringe reviews soon (7 planned over the next week, I believe), but in the meantime, something else to occupy your time in darkened theaters this week: Popcorn & Candy: Rise Above.

More Fringe & Purge coverage from today, my review of Secret Obscenities at the Capital Fringe Festival.

The second installment of my Capital Fringe Festival coverage two-fer in today's City Paper Fringe & Purge blog, a review of The Water Plays.

A new outlet to add to the résumé! I did once have a letter to the editor published in the Washington City Paper once, but apart from that, this is the first time I've written for them, and I'll be contributing Fringe Festival reviews to their Fringe & Purge blog throughout the next couple of weeks. Here's my first one, a review of the cloak room.

My review of Restrepo an excellent, pretty much apolitical documentary about the soldiers fighting some of the most difficult battles in the war in Afghanistan.

and...

My review of The Girl Who Played with Fire, a rather less successful film that follows up the excellent Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, taking a lot of stuff the first one did right, ( Read more... )

Love that deliciously profane Winnebago salesman YouTube clip? Meet the man behind the meme in this great new documentary. My review of Winnebago Man.