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Notes from Underdog

Url:	http://underdog.typepad.com
Author(s):	Craig Phillips
Language:	English
Tags:	film, screenwriting, culture
Description:	Musings on films and DVDs, including reviews, plus the art of screenwriting, and bits of randomness (including politics, culture, and other craziness from our mixed-up world).
Ratings	(2 Ratings)
Popularity:	15 Followers

Franchises and remakes and board games, oh my.

House of the Devil

*** out of 5 Ti West's 2005 horror film The Roost, his first feature, gained him some notoriety as a throwback creature

2009-11-20

Brief, (semi-)serious thoughts on A Serious Man.

A SERIOUS MAN: **** out of 5.Why is this film different than all other films?The Coen brothers' newest is one of the most Jewish-centric American films I've seen in a long while. As a lap...more

2009-11-16

1 like it:

Damned United.

Based on David Pearce's novel, which is itself [loosely] based on the true story of Brian Clough's quite doomed 44-day stint as manager in 1974 of the then reigning champions of English f...more

2009-10-30

Withnail and you.

There's a fine little documentary on Criterion's WITHNAIL & I DVD which features marvelous, priceless home movie footage that Bruce Robinson, the film's writer/director who based...more

2009-10-25

Excerpt from commentary on Criterion's The Hit DVD

The film The Hit (1984) is by Stephen Frears and remains one of my favorites of all his films. It recently came out on DVD at last, in a lovely DVD from, natch, Criterion. It's the story of tw...more

2009-10-08

MyPDF Scripts: New resource for screenwriters

Just wanted to give a plug to a great new resource for screenwriters looking for scripts to read:MyPDFScriptsWhich has quite an extensive selection of screenplays in pdf format, both new and older....more

2009-09-30

Observe and Report DVD review

Observe and Report Originally published on GreenCine GuruReviewer: Craig PhillipsRating (out of 5): ***Jody Hill's Observe and Reportis a tough nut to crack about a tough nut who cracks. The d...more

2009-09-30

Looped into In the Loop

Before I could finally spit out a review of the brilliant political satire IN THE LOOP -- which is an absolute scream, see it if you haven't -- much of the critical world has already reviewed ...more

2009-09-19

ACT's Brief Encounter: British import that delights

The American Conservatory Theater's production of BRIEF ENCOUNTER, now at the Geary Theater in San Francisco, adapted by Emma Rice and imported from her London production with the same Kneehig...more

2009-09-18

Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers on collaborating and adapting Where the Wild Things Are (from Script Mag

Highlights from Script Magazine piece by/on Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers on the writing of the Where the Wild Things Are script, and the challenges of adapting a very, very short book.(Most of this...more

2009-09-04

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