After our traditional wednesday-night jam session last night (which included some impromptu Tenacious D that turned out not-half-bad), we sat down and watched Dark City, a movie that I'd never seen before, but had heard good things about. I really enjoyed it. Like a dark, noir cousin to the Matrix that followed it, it explores ideas of self- ( Read more... )

We went and saw a very interesting documentary called Borat last night.  It definitely helped me learn a lot more about that part of the world - who knew that Kazakstan produced the highest-quality potassium in all of Central Asia ( Read more... )

We went and caught Match Point, the new Woody Allen movie, tonight.

It was absolutely fantastic. I knew, based on the trailer, that it wasn't going to be your regular sort of Woody Allen movie, but at the same time, I was completely blown away with how big of a departure it was for him. I haven't been this pleasantly surprised by a piece of art ( Read more... )

So, we went and saw the Gay Cowboy movie last night.  I was shocked (Shocked! I say!) at the lack of pudding-eating that occured during the film.  Why does Ang Lee hate humour?

Seriously, though, the movie was really well done.  The scenery was, at times, reminiscent of Group of 7 paintings (appropriate, given the Alberta filming locations), and Lee ( Read more... )