I spent the past week on vacation with my extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.), which is part of a tradition that was established 12 years ago. Once every odd-numbered summer we rent a few houses on the beach and have a ball. There are many, many great stories to tell, but one stands out as my absolute favorite (mainly ( Read more... )

Flicks...

Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977): 6 ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

You know the drill...

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1973): 7/10
Naked (Leigh, 1993): 9/10In case you were unaware, I recently started working at an antique and cozy (read: tiny) movie theatre after two years of unemployment and extreme lethargy. It was previously a hybrid arthouse/multiplex that showed a balanced mixture of independent and ( Read more... )

Films viewed recently

Heights (Torri, 2005): 6.5
Blue (Kieslowski, 1993): 10
Dummy (Pritikin, 2002): 6.5
War of the Worlds (Spielberg, 2005): 6.5
Saving Face (Wu, 2005): 7
Trauma (Evans, 2004): 3
Jules et Jim (Truffaut, 1961): 10
My Summer of Love (Pawlikowski, 2005): 7
The excessive amount of fireworks that are usually on display at dusk on the ( Read more... )

What is the singular form of the rotund candy/mints know as 'Mentos'. Is it 'mento' or 'mentos'? Is it 'mentos' in the singular AND plural form, like 'deer ( Read more... )

Flicks viewed by moi recently

Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005): 6.5/10
Grosse Pointe Blank (Armitage, 1997): 7/10
September (Allen, 1987): 2/10
F for Fake (Welles, 1976): 8/10
East of Eden (Kazan, 1955): 8/10
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards, 1961): 7/10
Antonia's Line (Gorris, 1995): 4.5/10For Father's Day, instead of staying home and doing a double ( Read more... )

The film "Antonia's Line" was recently recommended to me, so I thought I would check it out and then review it.

The title, Antonia's Line, does not refer to her queue, or her boundary, or her cocaine habit (now that would have made a more interesting film); Antonia's "line" is her lineage, or set of female descendants. The film opens with an older ( Read more... )

Recently viewed films:

My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991): 6/10 ( Read more... )

Recently viewed films:

Kings and Queen (Desplichin, 2005): 8/10
Sequins (Faucher, 2005): 5/10
Team America: World Police (Parker, 2004): 7/10
Don't you know those ominous and ethereal moments before a thunderous storm is about to strike the earth? Well, this may sound a bit creepy, but that is my favorite type of weather. Usually this ephemeral ( Read more... )