Posted in Movie Reviews on May 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Director: Craig Gillespie Genre: Comedy/Drama Year: 2007 More and more I am surprised by Juno’s nomination to best picture, when there were movies like this and “Into the Wild” that easily obscure it. Nothing against Juno, it is a fun, entertaining movie to watch with sadly over the top, exaggerated humor and unrealistic dialogue. Did [...]
Posted in Movie Reviews on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Director: Matías Bize Genre: Drama Year: 2005 It is difficult to top Linklater in this genre, the content heavy, dialogue driven, simply set type drama that submerge you into a situation and leave you engaged for the duration of the film. He did it twice with Before Sunrise and with Before Sunset and he did [...]
Posted in Movie Reviews on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona Genre: Horror/Thriller/Mystery/Drama/Foreign Year: 2007 Good horror films are hard to come by though, good horror, foreign films are much easier to find, which is a shame, because with the budget Hollywood has, the visual effects they can create would be the perfect instrument to deliver nice, scary, spine tingling films, but [...]
Posted in Movie Reviews on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Director: Sidney Lumet Genre: Drama/Crime/Thriller Year: 2007 Jeebus, this movie is messed up in various accounts, but I have to say that as time progresses I am more and more impressed with Phillip Seymour Hoffman (why did I just get the feeling to call him Dustin?) and his choice of films. Here is a guy [...]
Posted in Movie Reviews on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Director: Adam Green, Joel Moore Genre: Drama/Thriller Year: 2007 Somebody made the mistake of calling this a horror when they introduced it to me. Unfair because when you go in with a certain mindset for a specific genre and you do not get it, you tend to get somewhat irked. Thankfully, this movie is a [...]
Posted in Movie Reviews on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Director: Jon Favreau Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama/Sci-fi/Thriller Year: 2008 The way I see this, its like what Transformers was supposed to be. A better Transformers, yes. You got the big, bad ass robots, you got the excitement and the explosions and all the good stuff people go see in action movies and then you add to it [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Category: Fiction A classic and one that I had placed in my list for a long while now and just never dared to buy. I did not realize just how bad it must look for me to go and read Lolita after reading Oryx and Crake, which as I mentioned dealt with [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Author: Margaret Atwood Category: Fiction In what is probably described as a Sci-fi/post apocalyptic novel, Atwood gives us a frighteningly realistic bleak vision of the future, in which we follow the last of the humans, a bearded, naked man who clothes himself with a sheet, and who goes by the name of Snowman. As we [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Author: Miguel García Márquez Category: Fiction – Magical Realism/Drama Not the first time I read the book, to be honest. My dad had actually recommended it to me back in High School and I had indeed picked it up and read it cover to cover, mostly during one long swim meet weekend, between heats. However, [...]
Posted in Blog on May 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
So here it is, version three point Oh! That’s right, the first installment of focoproject, some of you will remember, was a rather complicated affair through Dreamweaver, far more complicated than it needed to be and a pain in the arse to update, which is why it never really did get updated…or not often anyway. [...]