Ev-a, Phone Home
Return of the Movie Review Sunday!
This week, the girlfriend took me to see Wall-E, which is still playing at the second run theaters. We’ve been meaning to see it for awhile. N hasn’t had much experience with Pixar films, though she really loved Ratatouille and wanted to experience more. I myself have been [...]
Star Tease
The Internet was abuzz yesterday, abuzz I tell you, like an iPhone sitting next to a speaker, with the release of the first official photos from the new Star Trek movie, which opens in May 2009. So I might as well comment on them also. It’s an interesting batch of photos and gives [...]
There Will Be Blud
Hey, we’re back to Movie Review Sunday!
Last night, I finally got a chance to watch the last of the 2007 Oscar nominated Best Picture candidates that I hadn’t seen, There Will Be Blood. All 2.5+ hours of it, in glorious rented Blu-ray disc form. I’m generally a fan of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s [...]
Unknown Pain
I missed Movie Review Sunday, so here we are with Movie Review Thursday!
I finally got a chance to see Control, the biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in 1980 at the age of 23. Though I have their albums and recognize how hugely influential they were, I was never a [...]
Thanks, But I Have Enough DVDs
It’s bad enough that I have more DVDs in my house than I have room to store. No, now they’ve got to include discs in my morning paper. Sunday’s Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News included this DVD:
It’s apparently a 60 minute version of a 77 minute documentary from 2005 called Obsession: Radical Islam’s War [...]
Okay, Kind Of
Movie Review Sunday!
I know it seems like the girlfriend and I have been watching a lot of romcoms lately, but that’s sort of because of random happenstance. It’s not like we’re terribly interested in the genre more than others, although it does give us something we can more easily watch together. We have [...]