‘movies’ Archives
Notes on a Scandal
I saw Notes on a Scandal last night. Judi Dench gives a mesmerizing performance. He should win an Oscar. So maybe I haven’t seen any of the other nominated performances. No, wait, I saw Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. I thought, after having seen her [Read More]
Super Size Me
It’s on MSNBC of all places. I guess their “Doc Bloc” actually will have real documentaries on occasion and not just “prison stories”. Speaking of fast food, I have a New Year’s Resolution. I usually believe these are silly, since [Read More]
Jonestown
If you don’t know any of the details about the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, and you’re interested in the nature of group dynamics and religious communities and cults, there’s a documentary now playing about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple that I highly [Read More]
A Mistanthrope Moment, nothing to read here…
Flipping channels, I come across American Wedding. I decide to watch a few minutes, to see if perhaps I’ve misjudged the Gen X/Y crowds for embracing American Pie humor. Stifler accidentally feeds the wedding bands to one of the bride-to-be’s parents’ [Read More]
RIP Bruno Kirby
He’s not even in this clip, but while looking for a clip with Bruno Kirby (When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers, many more), I found this: Remixed trailer for When Harry Met Sally as a thriller http://www.youtube.com/v/NrDN4uH7QZ4 [Read More]
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse
Adventures in Babysitting to be remade with Raven-Symone (ok, now I’m going to sleep) [Read More]
An Inconvenient Truth
At the end of An Inconvenient Truth, the credits alternate with suggestions on what we can do to help our planet. One of them is to get everyone you know to see the film. So go see An Inconvenient Truth. I won’t try to tell you why you should see it. I’m not [Read More]
The Terminal
Public entry, as last night’s was not, and I do want any movie opinions to be public So The Terminal gets an 8 from me. Critics were mixed; they derided the slow pace; they said that something just “didn’t work”. I don’t really know what [Read More]
