the film kvetch blog » Whatever Works http://blog.filmkvetch.com Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:51:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Woody Allen, EW, and Kvetch http://blog.filmkvetch.com/magazines/woody-allen-ew-and-kvetch/ http://blog.filmkvetch.com/magazines/woody-allen-ew-and-kvetch/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:04:12 +0000 A.B. http://blog.filmkvetch.com/?p=55 Woody AllenWas just reading the review of the new Woody Allen film “Whatever Works” in the latest Entertainment Weekly. First thing I noticed was that they gave it a “C”, pretty disappointing given that I love Larry David and like Woody Allen.

A few sentences into the article and I see they use the (very academic) term “kvetchy/funny” to describe Mr. Allen’s typical protagonist. Go EW! I obviously like this because our site is called Film Kvetch. In case you weren’t aware, “kvetch” is a yiddish word which more or less means complain. We kind of like to think of it as criticize.

Love to see the word “kvetch” in a major publication, hate to see “Whatever Works” get a poor review.

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