The day is Friday…it’s a cop…it wears a badge…

and I plan to see this later today – thank you connections.
Nicole Holofcener is a filmmaking goddess. If you’ve not seen her films Walking and Talking (1996) or the beyond brilliant Lovely & Amazing (2001), stop reading this and seek them out. Now please. When Lovely & Amazing came out on DVD it was [...]

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After Silent Hill ended, my mother and I picked up…

After Silent Hill ended, my mother and I picked up a Toshiba DVD player as the old one conked out, sound-wise. It seems the thing kept emitting a loud buzz through our sound system whenever we’d turn it on. The damn thing wasn’t even a year old yet! So much for SONY being top-shelf. Then [...]

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beauty is in the eye of the beholder…

In 2002, director Christophe Gans created a masterpiece with Le Pacte des loups (otherwise known as Brotherhood of the Wolf). It was ambitious, smart, and an all-around well-made film with a vibrant and alive mythos populated with strong characters. Now, four years later, the French filmmaker has teamed with Pulp Fiction co-writer and Killing Zoe [...]

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"Can someone help me…I think that I’m lost…lost in a place called America."

So, blogging can be a fun and informative way to pass on information between one person or a set of people to millions and possibly billions of others across the globe. My little corner of the Internet seems to become active in sporadic fits and starts.
My plans for today mostly consist of…
1. Go to sleep [...]

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…unless we get a little crazy….

I *will* see this movie this weekend, come hell or high water. It’s so far one of the best reviewed film of the year, with an 86% Tomato reading over at RottenTomatoes.com
It’s just a damn shame that it’s not doing as well as I’d have liked it to. Damn snot-nosed brats and their foolish adherence [...]

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