I saw the film "Deja Vu". It got two thumbs down on "Ebert & Roper" so I wasn't expecting much, but it wasn't too bad as an action-adventure flick with an implausible time travel plot device ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving. Blessed are the cheese makers. Music & art. The Curious Cars of Benjamin Button.

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ragtimematt recently wrote "It was 1947 at my house today ( Read more... )

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So, I saw "Snakes on a Plane". I would have skipped it on my own, but some of the New Orleans Worst Film Festival veterans wanted get together to see it. Yeah, it pretty much takes 100+ years of silly B movie cliches and jams them into one movie. Vyoma's review IMO hits the mark. I'm not quite as enthusiastic as Vyoma about it, but if you're in the ( Read more... )

I saw the primeer of "When the Levees Broke" (thanks, entheos93!). Whoa, good stuff ( Read more... )

I have the feeling that the degree of Katrina recovery we have now is about where we should have been in October, or maybe the first week in November ( Read more... )

Film maker Stevenson Palfi, Times-Picayune obit First aquantance among the post-Katrina suicides. A friend of friends. I have happy memories of him at some of the music & discussion salons the late Al Rose used to give. His films are likely to outlive anyone who ever met him. RIP, man.


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Ah, we've been having beautiful weather here -- clear and sunny, but in the 70s rather than 90s, unusual for August. And if this weren't enough to put locals in a good mood, this news comes out ( Read more... )