movie reviews

First and foremost, I would be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity to wish my wife a very happy birthday. Things have been crazy around the house the past while, and she’s been doing a smash bang job of keeping everything going. Of course, she also has stopped checking my blog, but I can forgive that. 🙂 Happy Birthday! Last night’s movie was The Adventures of Robin Hood. I have to say that I now feel like I should sue someone for not having forced me to watch this sooner. When my son’s a bit older, I’m showing him […]

Okay–I know this is rather late in coming, but I finally saw the latest Harry Potter last night, and I wanted to talk about some of the things I noticed in it. First off, some elements were handled much more deftly than the book. I’m talking about the never-ending Umbridge scenes. In the book, it felt like those were going to last forever. Just when you finished one, you’d have another which was pretty much just like the last one. It’s like that old “second verse, same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse.” Blech.

Last night I watched a Woody Allen movie I hadn’t seen before: Bullets Over Broadway.  I loved it so much I just had to write a review. There are certain things I like. Among these are movies by Woody Allen, or movies starring John Cusak. So when I saw that there was a Woody Allen movie starring John Cusak, I was physically compelled to watch it. Free will was entirely taken out of the picture. And I’m very pleased to say that it was worth my time. I loved it. The basic plot is simple: Cusak is a playwright who’s