I enjoyed The Libertine more than I expected. “The most controversial film of the year” declarations are certainly overrated, though the film did paint a decadent portrait of life during the reign of Charles II (John Malkovich) climaxing (pardon the pun) in a Caligula-like stage production the Earl of Rochester mounts (pardon the pun) for [...]

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It looks highly probable that Erin will be joining the family in mid-February. We drove to Mullingar to meet her current owner and breeder today. Erin is nine months old, so still has a good deal of the mischievous puppy in her. Apparently she is quite the hunter and demonstrated her pointing skills on a [...]

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One of the more difficult things for me to grasp is the relation of Celsius to Fahrenheit. We had one of the coldest days of the last twelve months on Thursday at -4 Celsius. Sounds pretty cold, but it was really just 24 degrees Fahrenheit. Does anyone have an easy math cheat to do the [...]

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It only took about 15 minutes for me to determine Independence Day was one of the silliest, most poorly written movies I have ever (not) seen. I did wait around to watch a few major cities get obliterated.
The Italian Job (1969) had one of the more frustrating endings to a film that I have seen [...]

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Andrea Arnold is a great filmmaker. She’s in control every step of the way and never made me feel I was watching a film as much as watching the story unfold. In Red Road, voyeurism is a big theme, as well as the breaking of boundaries. The lines between private and public, past and present, [...]

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