Posted in Movie Reviews on Aug 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Aug 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Aug 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Movie Reviews on Aug 6th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]