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Daniel Carlson
Houston, Texas

I love movies, books, music, TV, good food, my wife, my cats, and my dog. (Not necessarily in that order.) I write about whatever's on my mind. For more, go here.

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May 10, 2012

May 2012

Safety Not Guaranteed

April 20, 2012

April 2012

Get the Gringo

March 8, 2012

March 2012

John Carter

Fat Kid Rules the World

Somebody Up There Likes Me

John Dies at the End

February 13, 2012

February 2012

Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace 3D

January 20, 2012

January 2012

Haywire

The Grey

December 9, 2011

December 2011

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Young Adult

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (U.S.)

November 3, 2011

November 2011

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

J. Edgar

The Descendants

October 30, 2011

October 2011

Dream House

The Ides of March

Anonymous

September 29, 2011

September 2011

Contagion

Drive

Machine Gun Preacher

August 17, 2011

August 2011

The Change-Up

Fright Night

Our Idiot Brother

July 15, 2011

July 2011

Horrible Bosses

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Cowboys & Aliens

June 20, 2011

June 2011

Beginners

May 26, 2011

May 2011

Everything Must Go

The Tree of Life

April 28, 2011

April 2011

Your Highness

Fast Five

March 22, 2011

March 2011

The Adjustment Bureau

Red Riding Hood

Buck

Undefeated

The Other F Word

Turkey Bowl

The Other F Word (Pajiba)

February 25, 2011

February 2011

Unknown

Cedar Rapids

January 14, 2011

January 2011

The Green Hornet

December 21, 2010

December 2010

Black Swan

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

True Grit

Rabbit Hole

November 17, 2010

November 2010

Fair Game

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Tangled

October 1, 2010

October 2010

Let Me In

September 2, 2010

September 2010

The American

Machete

The Town

August 13, 2010

August 2010

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

The Switch

July 16, 2010

July 2010

The Kids Are All Right

Inception

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

June 18, 2010

June 2010

Get Him to the Greek

The A-Team

Toy Story 3

April 2, 2010

April 2010

Kick-Ass

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Joneses

March 19, 2010

March 2010

One Night in Vegas

Saturday Night

MacGruber

Ain't In It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm

Lebanon, Pa.

January 18, 2010

January 2010

Youth in Revolt

The Lovely Bones

December 27, 2009

December 2009

Brothers

It's Complicated

November 30, 2009

November 2009

The Box

Fantastic Mr. Fox

October 22, 2009

October 2009

The Invention of Lying

The Boys Are Back

Amelia

September 25, 2009

September 2009

9

The Informant!

Pandorum

August 10, 2009

August 2009

Cold Souls

Inglourious Basterds

Taking Woodstock

July 31, 2009

July 2009

Public Enemies

Arlington Road

Bruno

Fight Club

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Funny People

June 28, 2009

June 2009

"Royal Pains"

"The Listener"

"Tosh.0"

Away We Go

Year One

Office Space

The Hurt Locker

May 28, 2009

May 2009

Coming to America

Star Trek

"Glee"

Terminator Salvation

"Hitched or Ditched"

"Jesse James Is a Dead Man"

"The Goode Family"

Into the Storm

The Matrix

Up

April 15, 2009

April 2009

Adventureland

"Rescue Me"

"Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire"

"Parks and Recreation"

"Harper's Island"

Observe and Report

The Empire Strikes Back

"Sit Down, Shut Up"

State of Play

"The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler"

March 27, 2009

March 2009

Moulin Rouge!

Watchmen

I Love You, Man

12 Rounds

February 13, 2009

February 2009

Fanboys

Friday the 13th

January 29, 2009

January 2009

Last Chance Harvey

Waltz With Bashir

The Class

December 24, 2008

December 2008

Frost/Nixon

Cadillac Records

Doubt

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

November 27, 2008

November 2008

The Tao of Steve

Role Models

Slumdog Millionaire

Down the Tube
[goes to Willamette Week]

Australia

October 24, 2008

October 2008

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

"The Life & Times of Tim"
[Willamette Week]

Body of Lies

W.

Swingers

Changeling

September 26, 2008

September 2008

On the Record: Stories From the Newsroom

Burn After Reading

Ghost Town

Miracle at St. Anna

"Entourage"
[Willamette Week]

August 27, 2008

August 2008

"Battlestar Galactica," Season One

Henry Poole Is Here

The 2008 Olympics
[Willamette Week]

Seven

Traitor

July 25, 2008

July 2008

Turning Japanese
[Willamette Week]

The Dark Knight

American Teen

"Generation Kill"
[Willamette Week]

June 25, 2008

June 2008

The Happening

"Last Comic Standing"
[Willamette Week]

Three Days of the Condor

"Veronica Mars," Season One

WALL-E

May 23, 2008

May 2008

Son of Rambow

"Battlestar Galactica," Season Four
[Willamette Week]

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

April 25, 2008

April 2008

"John Adams"
[Willamette Week]

Priceless

The Visitor

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Baby Mama

March 28, 2008

March 2008

L.A. Confidential

"Quarterlife"
[Willamette Week]

10,000 BC

Funny Games

Drillbit Taylor

"The West Wing," Season Two

21

February 15, 2008

February 2008

Strange Wilderness

In Bruges

Jumper

January 28, 2008

January 2008

Clear Eyes, Empty Sets
[Willamette Week]

There Will Be Blood

Strike One
[Willamette Week]

Cloverfield

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Teeth

The Long and Winding "Road Rules"
[Willamette Week]

December 16, 2007

December 2007

Juno

Atonement

Showdown on Sci Fi
[Willamette Week]

Youth Without Youth

November 25, 2007

November 2007

American Gangster

No Country for Old Men

Margot at the Wedding

Strike While the TV Is Cold
[Willamette Week]

October 29, 2007

October 2007

Eight Films That Shouldn't Have Won Best Picture

TV Roulette
[Willamette Week]

The Darjeeling Limited

Michael Clayton

Lars and the Real Girl

"Pushing Daisies"
[Willamette Week]

Rendition

Rails & Ties

"The Office"
[Willamette Week]

September 28, 2007

September 2007

3:10 to Yuma

"My Boys"
[Willamette Week]

Across the Universe

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Kingdom

August 27, 2007

August 2007

"Mad Men"
[Willamette Week]

Hot Rod

Stardust

"Cathouse"
[Willamette Week]

Superbad

The Nanny Diaries

Sunset Blvd.

"The Pickup Artist"
[Willamette Week]

July 20, 2007

July 2007

Rescue Dawn

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"Studio 60": What Kind of Show Has it Been?
[Willamette Week]

Talk to Me

June 29, 2007

June 2007

Day Watch

Fido

Evan Almighty

Live Free or Die Hard

May 11, 2007

May 2007

Spider-Man 3

Georgia Rule

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

April 27, 2007

April 2007

Grindhouse

Perfect Stranger

Hot Fuzz

The TV Set

Next

March 17, 2007

March 2007

Starter for 10

300

I Think I Love My Wife

Reign Over Me

The Lookout


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February 28, 2007

February 2007

Hannibal Rising

Ghost Rider

The Man Who Wasn't There: A Salute to Character Actors

Reno 911!: Miami

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January 27, 2007

January 2007

PopMatters' Best TV of 2006

[link goes to PopMatters.com]

The Best Films of 2006

The Best Documentaries of 2006

The Dead Girl

Smokin' Aces

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December 26, 2006

December 2006

The Nativity Story

Unaccompanied Minors

The Good German

The Good Shepherd

Children of Men

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November 23, 2006

November 2006

Babel

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Harsh Times

Casino Royale

Shut Up & Sing

The Fountain

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October 21, 2006

October 2006

The Departed

Films About Texas

Little Children

The Prestige

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October 1, 2006

September 2006

Idiocracy

Hollywoodland

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

All the King's Men

Feast

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Jesus Camp

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August 29, 2006

August 2006

Little Miss Sunshine

Zoom

The Illusionist

Beerfest

The Quiet

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July 26, 2006

July 2006

The Oh in Ohio

"Nightmares & Dreamscapes"

[link goes to PopMatters.com]

Lady in the Water

A look at Rushmore

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June 28, 2006

June 2006

District B13

Cars

Nacho Libre

Wordplay

Superman Returns

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May 30, 2006

May 2006

The 10 Worst Blockbusters of All Time

The Notorious Bettie Page

The Proposition

An Inconvenient Truth

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April 29, 2006

April 2006

Brick

Lucky Number Slevin

Friends With Money

"Patton Oswalt: No Reason to Complain"

[link goes to PopMatters.com]

Hard Candy

Kinky Boots

"Dave Attell's Insomniac Tour"

[link goes to PopMatters.com]

The Sentinel

Stick It

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March 7, 2006

March 2006

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

The Libertine

"The Apprentice"

[link goes to PopMatters.com]

Ask the Dust

Thank You For Smoking

Inside Man

Slither

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February 22, 2006

February 2006

Something New

A Good Woman

Firewall

London

Night Watch

Winter Passing

Dirty

Unknown White Male

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January 7, 2006

January 2006

The best and worst of 2005

The Matador

The New World

End of the Spear

Why We Fight

Annapolis

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December 3, 2005

December 2005

Syriana

Memoirs of a Geisha

King Kong

Brokeback Mountain

[links back to Slowly Going Bald]

The Producers

Munich

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November 5, 2005

November 2005

Chicken Little

Jarhead

[links back to Slowly Going Bald]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Yours, Mine & Ours

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October 9, 2005

October 2005

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Good Night, and Good Luck

The Fog

North Country

The Legend of Zorro

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September 11, 2005

September 2005

Everything Is Illuminated

A History of Violence

Serenity

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The Motto Around Here

"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
— Pauline Kael

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