I LOVE a movie that makes me think and wonder. Maybe everyone does, but only certain things make me wonder. One of those is people behaving in ways authentic-seeming but unusual. This film kept me enthralled and guessing until the very end. I'm going to tell you the non-spoilery things about Phantom Thread above the cut, then those who have seen it ( Read more... )

I searched this book out because I saw, by chance one time when I was a young teen, the movie version on television and remembered it ever after. I wasn't able to find it anywhere again, but I found the book.

A High Wind in Jamaica was published in 1929 but takes place in the late 19th century, after Emancipation, in Jamaica and on the high seas. ( Read more... )

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By my watch, unchanged since Delhi, it's 10:15 pm. But it's only 12:45 am here, so I've got to drag myself onward for a few more hours. Like eight.

Our trip home was fine. My new favorite travel companion is Klonapin, an anti-anxiety medication. Take one of those babies and you really can sleep in the uncomfortably erect airplane seat with ( Read more... )

Jim and Karen, my brother and sister-in-law, took the adults to a movie after our 4:00 dinner. We left the kids at home playing Beatles Rock Band. The movie of choice was It's Complicated. ( Cut for spoilers. )

Somewhat against my better judgment, I took Tristan, Rory and Fin to see District 9 this afternoon, in return for mowing the lawn. This may not have been a great idea when I began the day by crying without much cause ( Read more... )

Started out to see Star Trek with Kay, and the project snowballed until it was Kay and Cal, and their daughter M-C (sister of the ever-present Fin) and Toby as well as Honor. I knew I'd like it, of course. And I so rarely go to the movies at all, to get to sit next to Toby in a movie theater is a real delight. Partway through, I leaned over to ( Read more... )