Nothing in my history could predict I would love twenty books about two men fighting naval battles in the Napoleonic Wars, but I do!
December 25, 2003
LOTR: The Return of The King
Maybe it’s a guy thing.
Bottom Line. Inevitable. (And not in a good way.)
November 17, 2003
Master and Commander
If you’ve spent the last forty years or so complaining that “they just don’t make movies like that” anymore, then you’ll be happy to know they just have.
Bottom Line: Highly recommended. Sign me on for another voyage.
November 15, 2003
Love Actually
Structured like a Christmas party sweets table, Love Actually is full of enticing confections without any substance or connection. Which is not to say that some of the tidbits aren’t wonderful.
Bottom Line: Good, but not great. Rated R for a British sense of humour.
September 28, 2003
Lost in Translation
Muddling through this waking life on auto-pilot. Dreams and nothing more.
Bottom Line: Recommended
January 17, 2003
The Hours
For all that this is a movie about writers, readers, and words, the emphasis is more visual than literary, more evocative than intellectual.
Bottom Line: Highly Recommended
August 5, 2002
Signs
As with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it’s not about them. It’s about us.
Bottom Line: Highly Recommended.
June 1, 2002
About a Boy
No man is an island. Nor any boy, either.