Movie Review: The Notorious Bettie Page

Song of the Day: “Desperate Guys” – The Faint

Director: Mary Harron
Genre: Biography/Drama
Year: 2005

For a film dealing with the Notorious Bettie Page, this film is surprisingly tame, light hearted and comic almost to a flaw. It is not that this film is necessarily bad, but rather that it fails to truly connect the audience with the [...]

Book Review: The Watchmen

Song of the Day: Forget Her – Jeff Buckley

Author: Alan Moore
Category: Fiction – Graphic Novel

So it took me this long to finally read what many people claim to arguably be the greatest graphic novel of all time: The Watchmen. That argument has been given to me for a while and perhaps it was the hype [...]

Book Review: Number 9 Dream

Song of the Day: Kissing Families – Silversun Pickups

Author: David Mitchell
Category: Fiction

There are books that hook you, grip you and will not let you go until you finish them and this one is one of those, falling in the category of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Atwood’s Oryx & Crake, and though thematically they are different, [...]

Movie Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Song of the day: Green Grass – Tom Waits

Director: Julian Schnabel
Genre: Drama/Biography
Year: 2007

I have used the term visual poetry to describe a film before: The New World. I would like to use the term again, but not in the same fashion. If we were talking music, The New Word would be the symphony and this [...]