From the pen of Miguel de Cervantes – La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los mas preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad asi como por la honra se puede y debe aventurar la vida, [...]
Yes, for nothing left to lose. Funny how things work in pairs. Hollywood likes a pairing. Think of Mission To Mars and Red Planet; Leviathan and The Abyss; Armageddon and Deep Impact; Democrat and Republican… On that note, the best political movie I can think of at the moment is The Candidate. “Best” being superlatively [...]
And by that I don’t mean the passage of health care legislation (I refuse to call any change “reform” since it is an abuse of the word, whatever the “reform” is, left or right). For that I mean to wax about dovetails, since this blog is purportedly about writing, reading, thoughts in between. And he [...]
This is more or less a reposting (OK, a bit more) of Steve Sailer’s review of Crazy Heart; I haven’t seen the film, or any in a long while, but the idea here is to point out that criticism is important, as also here. Now, I’ll need then to note that despite some friends’ ardor [...]
An attempt at a review, although more like my impressions, this will be, and not all in a Yoda voice. Just saw District 9…I liked it, overall. I was expecting something along the lines of Alien, since the trailer gave a hint of infection and incubation, but this film was not “horrific” in that vein. [...]
We watched Doubt, and I like, as in this film, when writers weave (or employ) a metaphoric thread — in this case, wind. A good choice, given the Catholic setting, since ‘spirit’ is wind, or breath, etymologically. Watching Meryl Streep and I wonder whether acting is perhaps the greatest art, if the actor/actress truly understands [...]
I’ve added a plugin which allows printing, or I should say, provides a print-formatted page, for each post. (You’ll have to click on an individual post to see the print link). I imagine there are plenty of folks talking, and still and have been talking, as always, about food, and not just in the wake [...]
Paraphrasing here, but I’ve taken that from The Lost Weekend, which we watched recently. Of course there is a happy ending to all of the psychological duress, but still, a worthwhile film for 1945-style delirium tremens. Ray Milland, told the role was career suicide before embarking and winning the Oscar, does a fine job of [...]
As alluded to earlier, I’m trying to spend less time online, but I thought it worthwhile to mention, ironically if you will, an excellent DVD authoring program called DVD Flick; so far I have successfully created DVDs from .avi and .rm files, and hopefully .mp4 will follow. To boot, it is also released under the [...]
beside being above the one below, is this: “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” That sums it up for me. Lately I’ve been taking religion, traditionally given, as an apt metaphor not to be discarded. Evil exists. This has not become obvious via experience excepting study, because, [...]