I've been sitting on this one for a while, but I really loved it. It's modern, but it has a very noir feel to it, and despite the fact that I feel like the ending should have been obvious, I didn't put it together until they tipped their hand. The movie has a fantastic cast, but what really stood out was the writing and the look. Both very noir ( Read more... )

From the creators of Love actually. Featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Kenneth Branaugh. So excited.

Now this was an odd movie. Great cast, kind of weird to see a Swaze movie days before he died. He was pretty funny. And this is pretty much my favorite kind of roll for Rowan Atkinson, deadpan, funny by downplaying instead of overplaying ( Read more... )

I'm finally getting around to reading Jim Butcher's other series. You may remember me mentioning a series called The Dresden Files. If not, you should go read it. Yup, all 11 books, it's more than worth it. Easily my favorite modern fantasy writing ( Read more... )

This was amazing. I've generally been quite happy with DCs direct to DVD comic movies, they're definitely the best of the kind, but this was way, way above the rest. It was easily the best script I've seen in any direct to DVD animated movie, and the art was fantastic. It did have one little hitch, which was they still insisted on blending in ( Read more... )

http://www.slideshare.net/danroam/healthcare-napkins-all

One of the more informative and less hysterical things I've seen on health care reform lately.

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I've been looking forward to seeing this for quite a while. I love Cohen brothers comedies, it has an amazing cast, and the previews looked amazing. And it was a really, really well made movie. Fantastic cast, great acting, excellent writing and directing. And depressing as hell. Maybe it's more what my expectations were, maybe I wasn't in the ( Read more... )

This is an extremely long article. When I was about 25% of the way through I noticed how little the right side scroll bar had moved and was sorely tempted to give up. I'm glad I read the whole thing though, and suggest everyone else stick it out too ( Read more... )

Been too long since I've updated here, and this one seems a good place to try to get back into the swing ( Read more... )