In addition to some of the usual Christmas fare, I saw three movies over the weekend ( Read more... )

How can The Village be so short and so slow at the same time?

Big River

If you're in the area, or if you can get to the area, y'all come on down and get tickets for the signed/sung production of Big River at Ford's Theatre. The regular run is March 18-May 1, although I'll let you in on a secret - they've told the ushers to be ready for a 2-week holdover.

What a fantastic performance!

( Very long review and staging notes )

I am supposed to be cranking out book reviews right now, but I just got back from Phantom of the Opera and I keep hearing the Phantom in my head. A lot of Phantoms actually - I've read the book, seen the stage play and now seen the movie, and most of my imagination is now evesdropping on some alternate dimension where all the versions of the ( Read more... )

So, I decide that I'm tired of watching the world slowly turn around me at work, and I come home to lie on the couch like a gutted halibut and watch Netflix movies. One of which was Sleepless in Seattle, which I never saw in the theaters, and I figured I ought to catch up on ( Read more... )

A random "I'm not dead" post:

Eggs and Evangelism
( Wherein Nea hopes that the breakfast bar has finally changed the radio station. )

The good news - the bathroom cabinet is painted and the old sewing cabinet is at the curb waiting for pickup ( Read more... )

He wants to be just a regular guy, but his looks forever set him apart. He has to live in a shelter because whenever he's seen he's hounded by reporters who make up wild stories. He adores his adopted father, but fights with him all the time, particularly over 1) his interest in the world and most especially 2) the girl he's in love with (who ( Read more... )

If you go in expecting the comic book, you'll be disappointed. If you go in expecting the literary characters, you'll be REALLY disappointed. If you go in expecting lit crossover steampunk, you won't be totally wasting your time ( Read more... )

The camera work swoops so much during the fight scenes that it's almost impossible to tell what's going on. Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, and Jonathan Pryce are all locked in a hard-fought "who's the feyest of them all" contest. (Depp wins by a mile, mostly by being the only character in the entire thing who wears mascara.) Some of the model work ( Read more... )