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Mo was nice enough to take me to see Alpha Dog just so we could watch Justin Timberlake in his first movie. The movie itself was entertaining and Justin Timberlake is decent on the screen but he comes across too nice to be a gangster. You leave the movie wishing you could hang out with […]

I rented 18 Fingers of Death because, well, I can’t pass up a title like that. It’s about a kung-fu actor trying to get his next movie made. It’s written and directed and stars James Lew and it’s based on the his experiences in hollywood. Unfortunately it’s not nearly as amusing as it tries to […]

Last week I finally got the chance to see Stay thanks to flannel and cindy. It’s a bit convoluted and as it gets towards the end you’re thinking it’s just going to keep spinning more and more out of control, but right when you’re on the verge of writing off the whole thing it resolves […]

My parents watch a lot of movies when tv gets slow. Generally you never knoww hat you’re going to get to see when you visit. Often it’s something I never knew existed and sometimes that thing is good and sometimes it’s pretty bad. This time it was Save the Last Dance 2. I thought it […]

I finally saw The Producers (2005 version) and after a rocky start where Bialystock and Bloom meet I think it works out really well. That was my least favorite part of the original movie too but I think it worked a little better there. I liked the expanded role for Ulla and the places where […]

While I was off I got a chance to see a few movies and I finished watching season 1 of Scrubs (thanks to Cathi for pointing me there). First up is Many of the Year. It was entertaining overall but as a whole it was uneven in just about every way. The story had awkward […]

Nicole was gone last week so I took the chance to watch V for Vendetta while I was brushing out the dogs. The movie doesn’t just look good, but I was drawn in by the main characters. The rest could have been cardboard cutouts with moving jaws and it would have worked just as well. […]

I was archiving things off my hard drive on to dvd and I was reaching for the disc folder so I didn’t just leave it laying around to collect dust, but that made the top of the tower of of jewel cases fall down, some with discs in them. As I was picking up the […]

Finally I was in one place long enough to sit down and focus on Control Room, the al-Jazeera documentary dating to the start of the Iraq war. It is really interesting watching them try to get information and work hard to present a high quality news report. I like when they reason that the information […]

Nicole and I were in need of a comedy and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby was there with the right starting time. We got a lot of laughs out of it so mission accomplished there. It’s rediculous and silly but always stays on target. I see is compared to Anchorman a lot since […]