Libertas really takes some movie hypes apart today. Sample

MY SUMMER OF LOVE
Focus Features BAFTA
BAFTA'?s British film of 2004, this bittersweet sun-dappled wonder failed to resonate with U.S. audiences, but it was their loss. Newcomers Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt, award winners in the U.K., deliver outstanding perfs as, respectively, Mona, a working-class lass, and Tamsen, a snotty rich girl on summer vacation. While Mona's brother (a memorable supporting turn by Paddy Considine) faces his own bogus religious rebirth, Mona learns the painful truths of trumped-up adolescent passion.

I have nothing particular to say about this film, other than to note the phrase "bogus religious rebirth,? which is apparently the only kind of religious rebirth the indy film world finds possible.

Here'?s another description of an Oscar hopeful that caught my eye:

Rejected by the Academy's foreign-lingo branch as Austria's submission (the film is in French), Michael Haneke's latest menacing masterpiece about a bourgeois French family haunted by surveillance tapes and a repressed colonialist past, is hoping for recognition in other categories. The film stunned audiences at its Cannes 2005 premiere, where Haneke won the director prize.


Repressed bourgeois French colonialists?

Note the words "?bourgeois"? and "?repressed colonialist past."? Again, I'?m just going by the descriptions in Variety, but this and many other examples make it apparent that all filmmakers have to do to win critical plaudits nowadays is recycle tired Marxist cliches.

He continues with a ton of observations. Go there at least twice a week, well worth your time.