(In my defense, there’s no un-sucky title for a review of Watchmen. 10 points for a bad pun, 20 for a reference to quis custodiet ipsos custodies, 50 if you get both.) So. If you have even browsed this blog in the past, or talked to me once or twice…
3D movies have never worked for me. Sometimes, they give me a fleeting sense of motion, but when I saw The Dark Knight in IMAX, I didn’t notice much of a difference from a regular movie screen. I remember seeing Spy Kids 3D and getting those cool glasses with one…
OK, I lied – these have nothing to do with New Year’s, except for the fact that I have lots more free time around this time of year and my parents like to watch movies, so I have a lot more filmic contributions this time. Porco Rosso (Studio Ghibli, 1992)…
I love a murder mystery, no matter how cheesy the plot, how stock the characters, or how many times strangers with guilty pasts naively accept a mysterious invitation to an isolated manor house and then decide to split up and search the place when it becomes clear that one of…
I have a habit of seeing movies way after their original release dates, and such is the case with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. But I saw it in IMAX! Doesn’t that count for something? Anyway, I found the movie really gripping. If you read this blog regularly and know…
I’ve been meaning to re-read His Dark Materials ever since I attended a lecture by Philip Pullman in November. Because I’m an awful procrastinator, I haven’t yet done so. BUT – I did see The Golden Compass this month when it was one of the movies available on that cool…
Sorry for the delay and the strange site stuff happening yesterday – domain renewal troubles! (Aka, this is a funny way of celebrating this site’s first anniversary…) But first, if you missed it, an update to the About Me section. So, for those of you who don’t know, from season…
Otherwise known as, “here are some books and films I read and/or watched lately”. Because I don’t have anything else to write about, I will tell you what I thought of them. 1. The House on Haunted Hill (1959).
It was suggested in the Toronto Star’s review that to recreate the new Walden Media version of C. S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian, one need only repeat the title of this entry several times. While this is perhaps not entirely fair, as my friend Juliana pointed out after we saw the…
Curse you, suitemates, for introducing me to iTunes movie rental service. I may never work again! On the surface, the Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men and the Dora-nominated show Evil Dead: the Musical don’t seem to have much to do with each other, apart from lots of…