: About Me

Erik Buckman is a film critic, award winning writer and accredited member of the Denver media. He has appeared in national publications and has been covering the movie scene for nearly a decade.

My passion is ...

movies.

I know too much about ...

Mexican coke.

My parents always told me ...

to look both ways before crossing.

My childhood ambition ...

was to bodyslam the Hulkster.

My favorite memory ...

well, I can't remember.

My first job ...

was dressing up like a monkey in a children's amuesment park.

My best moment ...

was when my kids were born.

My inspiration ...

other's success.

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Bruno (2009)

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Bruno makes it all seem so easy. An outrageously gay character ambushes "celebrities" and "regular folk" with a fake penis (sometimes two of them) while having anal bleaching done and/or gyrating to a funky beat. For those that may think this morally reprehensible behavior has no place in American cinema, I have news for you. It surely does. After all, it's American cinema. And for those who feel the antics of Sacha Baron Cohen is a one-trick penis, er, pony that has been painted as an in-depth critique of American socio-political society, well, there's some truth to it you can get over th...

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