Summer Film Series – Vol. 5, No. 3: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – AT WORLD’S END

June 23, 2007, at Movies 14, McKinney, Texas

I absolutely loved this film, and for so many reasons! Visually it is definitely the most impressive, and the story was more engaging than any of its predecessors. It has a perfect balance of beloved characters and new ones, coupled with a most suprising array of talent. And [...]

Summer Film Series – Vol 5, No. 2: FANTASTIC FOUR – RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER

June 21, 2007, at Movies 14, McKinney, Texas

I am an unapologetic fan of the first Fantastic Four film, so I was thrilled with a second one this summer. I love Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, and the delightfully irreverent Julian McMahon, and I enjoy the simple good fun presented in these films. But when I saw [...]

THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss

Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393328622
Acquired:QPB
Reading Began:June 3, 2007
Completed:June 15, 2007
Overall Rating:Seven out of ten
 
Two vastly different stories run through The History of Love: teenaged Alma, who is simultaneously searching for the woman after whom she was named while desperately seeking a mate for her widowed mother; and Leo, a man at the end of his life, so [...]

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS / LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (rentals)

 

Flags of our Fathers
It was always my intent to watch these two films back-to-back, so I opted to wait for the DVD release before seeing either. After watching only the first film, I see that this was the best idea. Flags of our Fathers is a good film obviously, but it felt much like [...]

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AN ORDINARY LIFE by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Genre: Memoir
ISBN: 1400080452
Acquired:Bookcrossing.com
Reading Began:May 22, 2007
Completed:June 3, 2007
Overall Rating:ten out of ten
 
I rarely give a book a perfect 10 on the ratings scale, but I have to do so in this case. It’s not that the book itself is perfect, nor the author extremely engaging in her own right, but I found the experience of [...]

how they get me, part two

Not only do the Network PTB find it important to make me watch a new series by including an old favorite, but now, apparently, it is utterly important that I become a viewer of an old mainstay. With the announcement that Jeremy Sisto (who turned in one of my favorite representations of Jesus the [...]

and this is how they get me…

Hollywood is so sneaky. Dudes always know exactly how to grab me and keep me, even when I’m only remotely interested in a movie or tv series. They know how easily influenced I can be, how little it takes to make me happy. And somehow they always know exactly what or who to sneak in, [...]