Random Acts of Verbiage

This has been around a little while (thanks to Jae for first pointing it out to me and to Erin for reminding me about it): The Landlord w/ Will Ferrell and Adam McKay (and his two year old daughter). It is freaking hilarious! (There is some language, so your sensitive types should skip [...]

Last Saturday when I met up with mom and Erin, we went to see Lady in the Water (which was much more difficult than I expected: it has only been out since July 21st and was only in one theater in Seattle!). [Warning: some minor spoilers ahead] I hadn’t read any reviews of the [...]

Why didn’t someone hit me over the head and drag me to see Crash? I remember thinking that the film looked interesting and that I should probably see it. I never did. Until tonight. I was blown. a. way. What a powerful and emotional film.
I had no idea what it [...]

I finally watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind again tonight and really enjoyed it. It is a well made and, I think, original look at relationships, bad relationships specifically. Everyone has had them, everyone wants to forget them sometimes. The beauty of this film is that it doesn’t try to ignore [...]

As seems to be the theme for this term, I ventred south of the border again to hook up with some friends to see the opening of Clive’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe at Cinerama last night. There have been numerous reviews and discussion of the movie, so [...]

This weekend was, of course, the opening of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire so I made the trek down to Seattle (who care about papers?) to catch the flick at the IMAX with some good friends. I really enjoyed the movie. Of course the left much out of the book but [...]