I rented this movie on a whim while my little sister was in town over the weekend before we drove her up to her first year of college. A co-worker had given it glowing praise and, while I’m not usually up for the cutesy romance genre, I decided a little light weekend movie would be [...]
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Posted in Everything Else, tagged film, Movies, Reviews on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This seemed to be a case of a film well-liked by the masses, but booed by the critics. Case in point – IMDB user ratings for the The Kingdom were somewhere around 7.3 out of 10. For IMDB, that’s a fairly good rating. Rotton Tomatoes on the other hand, gave it only 51% out of [...]
The Namesake
Posted in Reviews, tagged Books, Culture, film, Movies, Reviews on December 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I know I was going to review “I Am Legend”, but I must have been lying because I am going to talk about “The Namesake”.
Based on a novel by Jahumpa Lahiri, it explores the life of a an Indian couple and their subsequent children, particularly their son. From the previews, I expected it to be [...]
The Golden Compass
Posted in Everything Else, Reviews, tagged film, life, Movies on December 12, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Another book turned film! I read the trilogy by Philip Pullman a few years ago and I remember little of the second and third books. Fortunately, I retained a fair amount from the first book – the inspiration for the film.
I was extremely interested in seeing this film for a couple reasons; first being that I’d [...]
