So I spent last weekend here:


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Why is it
that I've never wanted to leave
the place that I am?

Maybe instead I think
it is everyone else
who should be leaving.

So I posted as an away message yesterday ( Read more... )

So I stopped writing movie reviews a while back, don't really know why but I did. But I'm back for one second to say that if you place any stock in my opinion at all you should see City of God as soon as you can ( Read more... )

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Well it's been a while, and the sheer power of the awesomeness factor has worn off somewhat. This film is still hell of impressive technically, and features the best battles scenes and close to the best photography I've ever seen. If it doesn't take many of those Academy Awards (the ones no one really notices) it will be a shame ( Read more... )

My favorite reaction to a movie ever: despite disliking to some extent aspects of almost every single scene, I enjoyed Return of the King. Maybe I'm glad the trilogy is over. Maybe it's more than the sum of its parts. Maybe I'm a good nerd and a sucker for big budget high fantasy. I don't really know. I am secure however in my belief that JRR ( Read more... )

The Virgin Suicides: Nice-looking Sofia Coppola film with good performances by James Woods and Kathleen Turner, but the film's conceit, presumably the same as the book's, that we'll never know why what happened happened just doesn't work. Fails to achieve the right tone consistently, entertaining but slight as hell: B ( Read more... )

Wednesday, 19 October, Coolidge Corner ( Read more... )