Today I watched Pan’s Labyrinth. Quite good.  Very beautiful fantasy.  I can see why so many people were raving about it.  I liked it’s use of conventional, fantasy story-telling elements but also how director Guillermo del Toro played with those ideas too.  I liked the color very much too.  Most of the movie is very [...]

Just finished the Fountain.  Thought it was good, not great.  7/10.  It’s a very well done, well-written, and quite beautiful movie.  Very well thought out, planned, and edited.  The storyline is good, believable within it’s universe, and the relationship between Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz is compelling and even emotionally draining at parts, but I [...]

I’ve been watching a lot of Spanish language movies lately (amores perros, next up volver, then y tu mama tambien, then pan’s labyrinth.)  It makes me want to pick the language up again.  Well, I guess learn it, as I only remember the questions words, and numbers and stuff.  I think I want to learn [...]

Saw another Spanish language film tonight.  This time it was Volver.  Apparently, since in Spanish B’s and V’s are pronounced the same, and according to IMDB, the movie’s titled is actually said “Bowl-Bair.”  I liked it.  At first the movie seems pretty mysterious, and kind of mystical, and in the end turns out very sweet.  [...]

Caitlin, Katie, and Kate, you might be excited about this (assuming, Kate, that you’ve finally read The History of Love.)  John Brit, I don’t know if you’ve read this book yet or not, but you should.  Either way, you’ll be excited about the bit I put in bold.  From New York Magazine Book Review: “Krauss’s [...]