Saw Snow White and the Huntsman on Thursday.  (Didn't write before now because I got about 5 hours of sleep Wednesday night and 4 Thursday, and was just too dead Friday to do anything.)  Seemed like a decent fairy tale.  There were dwarves in the movie but they definitely weren't the Disney ones.  Some pretty good effects.  Some dark scenes, some ( Read more... )

Left EFRC early today so that I could join a few of the local furs to see Lion King.  I'd never seen it before.  It is a good movie.  I generally like Disney animation style, and the animals were particularly appealing.  The story is a bit twee, of course, but still touching, and there were definitely some things for adults to laugh about beyond ( Read more... )

A coupla weeks ago, there was a story on NPR about how, even though it's still raking in money hand over fist, Avatar is soon going to be disappearing from theaters because there are only a limited number of 3D screens and they're contracted to start screening Alice in Wonderland starting March 5.  I wanted to be sure I saw it again while I could ( Read more... )

I have never been a regular movie watcher.  I've never owned a television, so I only rarely see movies on home video.  I used to see movies every now and then in the theater, but my inner cheapskate almost always thought they were too expensive.  And then they brought commercials (not trailers for other upcoming movies, but ads for cars, beverages ( Read more... )