10/10
There are very few films in which I enjoy the film more than the novel it’s based on. This would be one of them. I deliberated about going to this film for a while because I’m always a little worried that a film based on a book I’ve read is going to destroy [...]
8.5 out of 10
Remember My So Called Life? It was my favorite show in high school. I was exactly Angela’s (or also Claire Dane’s) age and we were in the same grade. I felt like I was going through the exact same types of things she was going through. I’d look [...]
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon
THE ONLY GOOD THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE by Sandra Newman
THE COLUMNIST by Jeffrey Frank
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon
I found this book to be a fairly accurate portrayl of a teenager with Asperger’s Disorder from his first [...]
I must be disturbed…no really. I mean, yeah I have this whole political thing of wanting to support independent places anyways but well, it goes beyond all that just a bit. The truth is this: chain stores make me nervous. I went to one last weekend (you get these weird points for [...]
I saw Architecture in Helsinki last night at the Empty Bottle. I had really wanted to see a local band Tenki play the SubT but I figured Architecture in Helsinki may not play in a really long time being that they are from Australia (they were actually selling t-shirts that said My mom and [...]
DEAR WENDY:
9/10
Well…when I heard this film was written by Lars Von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark) and directed by Vinterberg, I figured I should see it. And when I heard that it was getting tacked with the dreaded “anti-American” label from pretty much critics across the board here (I think [...]