Movie Review: Lars and the Real Girl

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 I find it [...]

Movie Review: En la Cama (In Bed)

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 it also in [...]

Movie Review: El Orfanato (The Orphanage)

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 all they seem [...]

Movie Review: Before The Devil Knows You Are Dead

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 that is clearly [...]

Movie Review: Spiral

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 good enough thriller [...]

Movie Review: Iron Man

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 what Transformers did [...]

Book Review: Lolita

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 some issues [...]

Book Review: Oryx & Crake

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 meet him, the [...]

Book Review: Cien Años de Soledad

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, reading it [...]

Welcome!!!

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. [...]