I heard the news as soon as I woke up…Sparklehorse, a band i’ve listened to for a decade is no more because Mark Linkous died. I only saw him four times live but each time was really special for me. Linkous was funny…he always brought a fan to blow his hair all around when he [...]
rating: 7/10 The U.S. vs. John Lennon is a documentary that takes a look at Lennon’s contributions to the peace movement during the Vietnam War and investigates the government interference that led to Lennon being wiretapped, followed, and threatened with deportation notices. It is, in many ways, a story told through the eyes of Yoko [...]
rating:9/10 Increasingly what I think we’re starting to see is a new kind of genre of films…they are pseudo real and as nonfictional as some autobiographies. They are the films that focus on character development instead of plot devices. Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone You Know was very much like this for me [...]
It’s funny because you grow accustomed to someone’s voice and you start to identify with it so completely that it’s cherished like none other. That’s how Leonard Cohen is to me. I like his voice over time as well, the more melodic and softer younger Cohen to the slightly more gruff crooner that he is [...]
My philospher friend Jon blogged about this film already as the three of us saw it together but I wanted to add my thoughts as well. Unknown White Male is a documentary that has to do specifically with memory and delves both into the way in which our brains store different types of memories as [...]
I’ve seen Punch Drunk Love four times now, first in the theater when it came out then a couple of times after I bought the dvd. Last night, my friend Michelle came over for dinner and she watched it with us. Having a projector now, I was able to see so much more just in [...]
10 I’ve always been against the death penalty for as long as I can remember and I’ve always looked at it as one of the most heinous actions any civilized society would take. In high school, one of my US Gov’t projects was debating the death penalty in which I looked into a side very [...]
As you can see, I am feeling much better now. I’ve been on antibiotics for 48 hours and my throat appears to be less red. I’m definitely in a great deal less pain and am looking forward to going back to work tomorrow after being bed ridden for the last few days. Onto the point [...]
9 This film is sort of like what you might see if you crossed Hedwig with In the Name of the Father. Cillian Murphy quite adeptly plays a boy who is raised within the confines of the Catholic faith after being abandoned and realizes from an early age that he’d be more comfortable living his [...]
10/10 This one will probably be my film of the year. On the surface, it is an engaging profile of Ed Murrow, a CBS journalist and newscaster in the 50s. It’s also a film with some adept performances by Straithairn, Clooney, Clarkson, and Robert Downey Jr. with some great black and white cinematography that skillfully [...]