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2005 Movie Wrap-Up

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Well, and the Oscar noms are out, and Your Humble Blogger has seen six—six!—of the nominated films. Oh, none of the ones nominated for Best Picture, and none of the nominated acting performances, or directing, or writing, but then who…

De-Stinky

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Your Humble Blogger finally saw De-Lovely. If y’all had forgotten, or more likely never heard, about De-Lovely, it was last year’s Cole Porter bio-pic, the one with Kevin Kline, the one that was trashed for using a variety of theatrical…

Jodie, anyone?

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Having joined the NetFlix cult, I’ve been watching the first season of Soap nearly every night for the last few weeks. It’s a wonderful show, and just right for watching before bedtime. It’s funny, and it’s mostly lighthearted, and there’s…

based on the novel

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So, rereading Cold Comfort Farm reminded YHB what a great job the filmmakers did creating the movie of the book. I’m very interested in the problem of adaptation, generally. I think it’s one of the great challenges of our technological…