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 this one…) [...]

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 film [...]

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 was about coming in [...]

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 that or cover [...]

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 I [...]

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 did well [...]