Why had I never heard of Soldier's Girl with Lee Pace, when it came out in 2003? I only discovered it after watching the series Pushing Daisies and then looking up everything else Pace has been in ( Read more... )

This evening I attended the fabulous launch party for Delia Sherman's new ya novel The Freedom Maze. The party was thrown at the Center for Fiction (formerly, the Mercantile Library) in the midtown area. Pouring rain did not stop the many attendees from having a great time, with period drinks, plus wonderful food. I helped judge the cake contest ( Read more... )

And all were good. This evening I watched Mysterious Skin (2004) by director Gregg Araki, based on the novel by Scott Heim. It takes place in 1974 and is about two boys from a small town in Kansas who were both traumatized when they were eight year's old. One lost 5 hours of his life and comes to believe he was abducted by aliens and becomes ( Read more... )

This evening I watch The Bank Job, a Brit movie made a few years ago with Jason Statham, based on a real heist in 1971 that was masterminded to grab some incriminating photos of one of the Royals, (although most of the thieves didn't know this). Not great but entertaining (and violent). Directed by Ronald Donaldson.

Then I saw Interview directed ( Read more... )

Although it was raining when I left, I found a taxi pretty quickly. This, for anyone living in NYC knows what a piece of luck this is. I headed down to Warren street for the Mysterious Bookstore Thrillerfest party and even though it was crowded, I'm glad I went. Alice Turner and I were to meet there but I go there first, was greeted by storeowner- ( Read more... )

Friday night I watched Snow White: A Tale of Terror, which I'd been waiting to be available on netflix for a few years. It was worth the wait. Sam O'Neil as the King, Sigourney Weaver, beautiful and scary as the wicked stepmother, Monica Keena as Snow White. Just looked up Keena's filmography as I don't think I've ever seen her before. Interesting ( Read more... )

Movies and a street fair.
I watched three movies: Quintet a movie by Robert Altman that I've wanted to see for a long time. In an sf future of ice and snow, Essex (Paul Newman) and his young, very naive wife (Brigitte Fossey) travel through the abandoned landscape to a ruined city where people survive (sometimes) and play a murderous game called ( Read more... )

Apologies for not being around more but Terri and I have been finishing up After (and I can't stay long as I've one more major thing to do). We'll post TOC very soon.

In the meantime, I've just been alerted that Tennessee poet Elizabeth McClellan gave a marvelous shout out to Troll's Eye View in an interview conducted with her by Nashvillescene. ( Read more... )

Well, just barely. Landline fixed after panic that I wouldn't have phone or internet over the long weekend because phone guy came early, checked line outside, reported it was a mess and he couldn't believe I was getting dsl service at all. Sooooo he fixed outside wires called in to office where they had to fix lines in the 18th street station ( ( Read more... )

A triple feature last night. I tweeted to say they were all grim right after I finished watching them but having digested each overnight, although Red Riding is truly grim, but of the other two -although one is certainly downbeat, the other has an exuberance, an ultimate love of life and imagination that totally defeats any bits of grimness within ( Read more... )