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Patton Oswalt Jams a Stake Into Geek Culture

Over the course of 2,700 words, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt thoroughly and explicitly underlines everything that’s wrong with pop culture at the dawn of 2011. “When everyone has easy access to their favorite diversions and every diversion comes with a rabbit hole’s worth of extra features and deleted scenes and hidden hacks to tumble down and never emerge from, then we’re all just adding to an ever-swelling, soon-to-erupt volcano of trivia, re-contextualized and forever rebooted,” he writes in Wired . “We’re on the brink of Etewaf: Everything That Ever Was–Available Forever.” For reference, that’s bad. Don’t worry, Oswalt will helpfully explain why. [ Wired ]

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Patton Oswalt Jams a Stake Into Geek Culture

REVIEW: Javier Bardem Saves the Overwrought, Overmanipulative Biutiful

The latest entry from the “If it makes you feel terrible, it must be great!” school of filmmaking, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful has it all: Charming, intelligent, wholly innocent children who suffer at the hands of their wackadoodle manic-depressive mother. Desperate immigrants who toil away under exploitive working conditions for greedy employers who care more about profits than about human lives. Dead babies. Cancer. Nothing says “Awards Season” like feel-bad cinema, and with Biutiful, Iñárritu hauls out the big guns.

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REVIEW: Javier Bardem Saves the Overwrought, Overmanipulative Biutiful