Movies, films, flicks
Yes, it’s every Gentle Reader’s favorite time, that bit where Your Humble Blogger writes a few lines about a bunch of videos. OK, fine, but look, I could be writing whole entries about this stuff. It’s probably a deficiency of…
Category: flim
The silver screen, or at least the silver disk
While Your Humble Blogger doesn’t feel compelled to note in this Tohu Bohu every movie watched, now and then we watch enough to pile up some comments… I was disappointed that Bandidas wasn’t more fun. It was fun, but it…
About reviews and reviewers
So, here’s an odd question: To what extent do you want a movie (or music or theater) reviewer in a daily newspaper to express his own preferences and interests, rather than her estimation of her audience’s? That is, say your…
lights, camera, action
As has become more or less the rule, Your Humble Blogger watched six movies in theaters over the last year. I suspect that at least some of the movies in question will not be nominated for any Academy Awards this…
A movie, not puffed
Your Humble Blogger watched the movie The Wrong Guy t’other night. It’s a clever little low-budget Canadian comedy from the late nineties, written by and starring Dave Foley and David Anthony Higgins and directed by David Steinberg. It’s odd, though,…
Puff Piece: Hugh Laurie
So. Over the last few months, I’ve been watching DVDs of a couple of television shows featuring the great Hugh Laurie. They are somewhat different. The first is an American drama/soap opera in which Mr. Laurie plays a brilliant and…
Book Report: 84 Charing Cross Road
I am trying to remember if I’ve ever read 84 Charing Cross Road before. I’d seen the movie, years and years ago; it’s a wonderful movie, and YHB highly recommends it. If possible, go back and time and see the…
Action! Cut! Print!
Your Humble Blogger has, for one reason and another, seen a fair amount of movies over the last n days. I enjoyed Billy Elliot a lot, but there was far too much acting. When I say that, what I mean…
Book Report: The Day of the Triffids
Your Humble Blogger had never read The Day of the Triffids before, nor seen the movie. I know, I know. Ambulatory plants that spit poison and kill. Why hadn’t I read it when I was fourteen? Why wasn’t it at…
Good, bad, indifferent
In the middle of Anthony Lane’s nastily hilarious review of The DaVinci Code movie, he observes, “Movie history is awash, of course, with fine pictures that have been made from daft or unreadable books; indeed, you are statistically more likely…