We watched Babel with Josh and Jacy last week. It was interesting… pretty depressing and I don’t know… I just don’t see the deeper meaning in it. It’s a bit like a Neal Stephenson novel in the interconnectedness of the plotlines, and the temporal sleight of hand at the end is interesting.
Worth watching. Not going [...]
Babel
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
We actually saw this less than 48 hours after it came out – hooray! It was really good. Really, really good. I still think Prisoner of Azkaban was better, but this was up there. Excellent performances from Jim Broadbent (Slughorn), Daniel Radcliffe (do I need to tell you who he plays?), Tom Felton (Draco), and Alan [...]
The Corpse Bride
M got me Corpse Bride for Mother’s Day. (Appropriate? Probably.) It was vintage Burton, very cute and dark and macabre. It clearly grows out of Nightmare Before Christmas but … I’m pretty sure I like Nightmare better. It seems more subtle, more complex. Maybe I will change my mind when I have watched Corpse Bride [...]
The Princess Diaries
The day after we watched Murderball, The Princess Diaries was on Disney while the kiddo was napping. I figured there was no way she was going to sleep for two hours, so I left it on, knowing that I would be able to walk away at any time. But she did, so I saw the [...]
The Devil Wears Prada
I had wanted to see The Devil Wears Prada for ages, and somebody (my sister, I think?) rented it over Christmas. So one evening my mom, my 87 year old grandmother, and I piled onto the sofabed in the den (it didn’t even fold up on us, though it was a near thing once…) and [...]
Murderball
We watched Murderball via free HD On Demand (love that stuff!) a couple of weeks ago – we’d heard a lot about it when it came out and were very curious.
It’s a really, really interesting documentary. ”Murderball” the sport really doesn’t bear that much resemblance to regular rugby, but DAMN those guys are tough. I [...]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
We took advantage of one of our last days of summer to catch a matinee of Star Wars: The Clone Wars this afternoon. I hadn’t really been paying attention to any media about it, so I basically went in knowing: animated. Star Wars. Clones. It took me a while to sort out who’s a good [...]
The Education of Shelby Knox
I happened to catch The Education of Shelby Knox on PBS the other night. This was a mixed blessing – I really enjoyed the documentary but I had intended to go to sleep! I had heard about this film previously, but didn’t really know anything more about it.
Shelby Knox is a courageous young woman – [...]
Garden State
We are working our way through the movies we own on DVD and haven’t yet watched. Like Once, I got Garden State for either my birthday or Hanukkah from Josh & Jacy. Watched it last night, and both loved it. I started out watching it & embroidering at the same time, but I couldn’t keep [...]
Once
I got Once for my birthday from my brother- and sister-in-law. They thought it looked like the sort of thing I would like. We put it on the shelf and noticed when it won the Oscar for Best Song. We watched it Saturday night expecting to be amused, but not necessarily blown away… But we [...]
