Between January and March (which networks loosely like to call “midseason”) a number of new shows have debuted (and there are a few more to go). I don’t know whether it’s scary or not that so many of the new fall shows have been cancelled, leaving room for such a number of midseason replacements. With…
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Oscar, Schmoscar 2006
I fancy myself a movie-lover, so over the last several years I’ve tried to pay more attention to the Oscar nominees. I thought, “These must be the best films of the year, so I should watch a handful of them.” People are raving about this year’s nominees, but after watching some of them, I sadly…
Water and Memoirs of a Geisha
I recently watched two movies with very similar stories and themes. The first was Water, directed by Deepa Mehta, and the second was Memoirs of a Geisha by Rob Marshall. Water is set in India while Memoirs is set in Japan, but both take place in a pre-WW2 time frame and tell the stories of…
Corpse Bride (2005) – Capsule Review
Director Tim Burton’s previous voyages to the land of odd (such as Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and Ed Wood), have led audiences to expect his films to be completely off-kilter. However, while Corpse Bride obviously skews towards the ghoulish, that is all that really separates it from your average animated romance. There are splashy musical…
Capsule Movie Review: Mean Creek (2004)
“When a small town kid gets beat up by a school bully, his brother and his friends decide to teach the bully a lesson.” It sounds like the plot to an afterschool special. When the prank goes tragically awry, it starts to sounds like a coming-of-age melodrama. I think this film actually comes somewhere in…
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