Roger Ebert writes from rehab
Monday, October 16th, 2006Roger Ebert's update on his recovery from salivary cancer exuded optimism, enthusiasm, and gratitude. I very much admire him for that.
Archive for the ‘movies’ Category
Roger Ebert's update on his recovery from salivary cancer exuded optimism, enthusiasm, and gratitude. I very much admire him for that.
movie: Little Miss Sunshine
Thursday, September 7th, 2006I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that I enjoyed so much that I would not hesitate recommending to anyone. That movie would be Little Miss Sunshine. Well, maybe to people I don't like, but why spend the time considering them? It's ...
movie: Collateral
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006I saw this movie tonight and enjoyed it. It's worthy of a blog entry, but perhaps not worthy of being on my del.icio.us video links page. Anyway, this is an action movie with good dialogue and something to think about. I identified with Max, played by Jamie Foxx, who ...
More on movies
Thursday, June 2nd, 2005One movie I did not mention in the May 29 post was Sideways. Jo Ann Skousen wrote a good review of it in the April edition of Liberty Magazine. Too bad it's not on-line. I'll exceprt some quotes when I get a chance. When I was ...
Memorial Day movie
Monday, May 30th, 2005I should post this while it's still Memorial Day: One of the best movies about the dangers of glorifying war has recently been released in DVD: The Americanization of Emily. Rick Gee wrote a review of the movie that includes some great quotes, and the word osculation. ...
a movie genre I don’t like
Monday, May 30th, 2005I was considering seeing the movie Crash, so I went to mrqe.com to look at reviews and started to read the one my A.O. Scott in the New York Times. Now, I'm averse to this publication because of their assinine punctuation policy of using apostrophes for pluralizing acronyms such ...
Download thoughts.
Friday, December 3rd, 2004On Wednesday I got into the lotus position in yoga class, and more importantly, I got out of it. So that's progress. My trip back East for Thanksgiving was nice. My brother plays in a slow-pitch softball league that does not use a mat for the strike ...
To appreciate
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004Briefly: I saw The Magnetic Fields perform on Boulder campus. A good band, not rock-n-roll, and they don't seem to like performing, but quite talented. The opening act, Darren Hanlon, was quite good. He reminded me of Jonathan Richman, and when I commented on this to the ...
Final Destination (really?)
Wednesday, January 29th, 2003A friend tells me that "amateur" comes from the French "amore", meaning "love." This of course implies that professionals don't love their work. OK, what is the deal (Seinfeld whine) with the new movie "Final Destination 2"? I mean, wasn't the first one final? That's it. You're ...
Amateur, Nurse Betty
Sunday, January 26th, 2003I mispelled the word "amateur" as "amature" in an e-mail. Interestingly, a certain section of the population mispells it the same way, as shown by Google search on "amature". In good company I am. Last night I saw a movie called Nurse Betty. Quite good, but again, movie ...
