The on-going (mis)adventures of Joseph “Jon” Lanthier, social media advertising guru, semi-professional film/culture writer, amateur musician, dachshund owner, and drinker of various beverages (mostly porters and gimlets).Tumblr (3.0; @lanthier)http://aspiringsellout.com/Mad Men Season 4 (Slant Review) : Mad Men behaves like nothing else on television, a distinction...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/846868612http://aspiringsellout.com/post/846868612Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:34:55 -0700slant reviewstv reviewsMugabe & the White African (Slant Review) ***: Much like last year’s crowd-pleasing,...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/832606902http://aspiringsellout.com/post/832606902Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:05:00 -0700slant reviewsBlack Narcissus (Slant DVD review) ****1/2: Just as the stoic, skeletal holy man both defies and...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/828734240http://aspiringsellout.com/post/828734240Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:17:44 -0700slant reviewsDVDsDogtooth (Bright Lights review): With its downright molten tabloid scenario and (to put it...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/796503910http://aspiringsellout.com/post/796503910Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:09:57 -0700film reviewsbright lights film journalThe Girl Who Played with Fire (Slant Review) *: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, or as it’s...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/777926589http://aspiringsellout.com/post/777926589Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:48:51 -0700slant reviewsSouth of the Border (Slant Review) ***: There’s a shrewdly but skeptically revisionist tone...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/732354263http://aspiringsellout.com/post/732354263Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:52:09 -0700slant reviewsFuturama Season 6 (Slant review) ***1/2: How does one continue a TV show that’s already ended...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/732349040http://aspiringsellout.com/post/732349040Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:50:01 -0700futuramaslant reviewsMystery Train (Slant DVD review): That Jarmusch waited until his fourth effort to offer such a...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/705301675http://aspiringsellout.com/post/705301675Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:09:10 -0700slant reviewsWah Do Dem (Slant Review) ***: Wandering the lazy dub jungles between the passionate, if terminally...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/705294751http://aspiringsellout.com/post/705294751Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:06:44 -0700slant reviewsCoco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky (Slant review) ***: .  It would, however, be generous to refer...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/685303609http://aspiringsellout.com/post/685303609Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:47:36 -0700slant reviewsThe World According to Bruno Bozzetto (House Next Door festival write-up): It’s...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/685299449http://aspiringsellout.com/post/685299449Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:46:03 -0700the House Next DoorFinding Bliss (Slant review) 1/2 star: Naught-eur Davis mythologizes her own rise to sub-fame...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/653801891http://aspiringsellout.com/post/653801891Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:22:11 -0700slant reviewsMademoiselle Chambon (Slant Review) **1/2: Unlike the similarly bucolic and gesture-driven milieu...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/651111266http://aspiringsellout.com/post/651111266Mon, 31 May 2010 14:37:51 -0700slant reviewsBy Brakhage (Slant DVD review ****): The cinema of Stan Brakhage has been interpreted as...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/651106787http://aspiringsellout.com/post/651106787Mon, 31 May 2010 14:36:08 -0700slant reviewsDVDsWalkabout (Slant bluray review) ****: Set chiefly in the needly Australian outback, where even red...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/610482517http://aspiringsellout.com/post/610482517Tue, 18 May 2010 10:00:49 -0700slant reviewsTwo in the Wave (Slant Review) **: The well-known love/hate relationship between Jean-Luc Godard...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/610480046http://aspiringsellout.com/post/610480046Tue, 18 May 2010 09:59:34 -0700slant reviewsLooking for Eric (Slant Review) ***: The protagonist of Looking for Eric, Eric Bishop (Steve...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/590172269http://aspiringsellout.com/post/590172269Tue, 11 May 2010 11:59:33 -0700slant reviewsSFIFF Dispatch #1 for The House Next Door: The oldest film festival in the United States packs...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/574742436http://aspiringsellout.com/post/574742436Wed, 05 May 2010 17:30:34 -0700festivalsthe house next doorOSS 117: Lost in Rio (Slant review) **: The French have it easy. Their secret agent-era vintage...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/574737407http://aspiringsellout.com/post/574737407Wed, 05 May 2010 17:28:19 -0700slant reviewsThe Phrenology of Shutter Island (Bright Lights article): Perhaps it’s the bald Ben Kingsley,...http://aspiringsellout.com/post/574732710http://aspiringsellout.com/post/574732710Wed, 05 May 2010 17:26:24 -0700bright lights film journal