I watched West of Memphis a.k.a. celebrities lavish praise upon themselves for singlehandedly freeing the West Memphis ThreeAs far as I can see, the only thing this documentary added to Paradise Lost’s version of events was a degree of polish. It’s a neater documentary than the Paradise Lost trilogy and, as a newcomer to the case, you could watch ( Read more... )

( Hot Coffee )

I watched a documentary called The Education of Shelby Knox, which is about sex education in Texas. It's not a revolutionary game-changer of a doc (spoiler: Texas still doesn't have comprehensive sex education), it's just a quiet-inspiring snapshot of one girl (high school student and 'youth mission' member, Shelby Knox) trying to change things in ( Read more... )

Some thoughts on documentaries I've watched recently. (Does anyone want to rec me documentaries to watch? I love documentaries!)

( Waiting for Superman )

And now for some highly-topical, completely en vogue commentary:

I finally watched The Social Network, after months of feeling like, "do I want to watch a movie about rich white dudes and their problems? no... still no... still no... oh, okay then ( Read more... )

Day 02 -- Your favorite movie

I really don't obsess over movies the way I obsess over TV, music and books, but the last movie I adored so much that I immediately watched it three times over is... Once.

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I love that it's not a love story in any Hollywood sense -- it's about two people finding each other at the right time, maybe not happily ever ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a bit down today, so when I decided to watch a movie, in retrospect, I realize I should have chosen something light-hearted. Instead, I chose to watch what turned out to be THE MOST DEPRESSING MOVIE EVER: Teenage Dirtbag, starring Scott Michael Foster (aka. Cappie from Greek) and some chick that looks a lot like Emily from Make It Or ( Read more... )

When I was at university, I wrote a mediocre essay about L'Age d'Or (which, by the way, is not a movie anyone should watch more than once -- Un Chien Andalou is brilliant; L'Age d'Or, not so much). Reading Robert Short's The Age of Gold: Surrealist Cinema at the time piqued my interest in the delightfully-twisted youthful friendship between Luis ( Read more... )

Oh, how edgy. Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana are starring in a movie about a paedophile who, through time travel, grooms a young girl to believe she's in love with him -- and then has sex with her.*

*But not before he has sex with himself -- through time travel. Charming.

Oh, wait. The Time Traveler's Wife is supposed to be a romanceSiiiigh. IDK. ( Read more... )

Recently, I watched a succession of mediocre, gay-themed movies. This seemed like a good idea when I started, but the mediocrity really began to get to me. I shall now rank these movies from "unwatchable dreck" to "okay" -- believe me, there is no "good" or "outstanding" in this list ( Read more... )