I capped off Thanksgiving weekend with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. What an excellent installment in the series. The movies have gotten better and better since Prisoner of Azkaban and this one has an epic feel to it. Obviously things are very dark as Deathly Hallows opens with Harry, Ron and Hermione [...]
17Oct09
Where the Wild Things Are
I came out of Where the Wild Things Are yesterday afternoon feeling very mixed about what I’d seen. Let’s talk about what’s amazing first: the creature designs are stunning. The “monsters” look exactly like I remember them from the book. The movements and the facial expressions are breathtaking. Designer Casey Storm deserves an Oscar nomination [...]
8Mar09
Watchmen
I’ll say up front that I had little experience with Watchmen before I saw the movie this afternoon. I was aware it was a graphic novel that had a sizable following, but I didn’t know the characters or plot. What little I knew came out of the trailers and the media coverage. I liked the [...]
18Nov08
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
As planned, I finished Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight just a few days ahead of the movie. Simply put, I loved this book. It’s a simple plot: human girl falls in love with vampire boy (okay, he looks like a 17-year-old but is quite a bit older as you would expect from a vampire). The push and [...]
Week three of May Movie Mania brought The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The move is a worthy big screen follow up to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. This film picks up a year after the kids came home from Narina and we catch up with them just as they are about to [...]
17Sep07
Dragon Wars
Please don’t think any less of us, but Jeff and I actually went to a theatre and paid to see Dragon Wars. If you read this blog on a regular basis you’ll know that my personal taste concerning culture can sometimes be… well, questionable, but Jeff is a perfectly intelligent human being, though the fact [...]
24Aug07
Friday Geek Out: Wonderfalls
How would you feel if one day a stuffed animal spoke to you? Jaye Tyler thinks she must be going insane. Over the course of the 13 Wonderfalls episodes, Jaye is given directions to help people from an array of inanimate animals. A sampling: From the wind-up penguin: “Bring her back to him!” From the [...]
