Aug 17 2008
I’ve been too busy working and settling into a new house to watch many movies this summer. Here’s what I’ve seen, though, in order of enjoyment.
The Dark Knight — A dark and twisted Batman movie made for adults, finally.
WALL-E — Proof that Pixar could make an excellent adult science fiction film someday.
The [...]
Jul 15 2008
The Periodic Table of Videos:
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version will have a short video about each one.
Very cool. Here’s the one for Phosphorus:
They have a YouTube Channel that features all their videos.
Jul 10 2008
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
This is why the internet exists.
Matt’s websites has lots of clips and a journal about the making of it.
Jun 30 2008
My three year old son started playing soccer last week. My daughter’s in gymnastics and piano lessons. My wife goes to the YMCA for exercise regularly, and I play World Of Warcraft.
I watch less than a couple of hours of television a week, but the kids watch it a lot; it’s their baby-sitter. [...]
Jun 23 2008
Kung Fu Panda is an animated film about a Panda who loves Kung Fu, where he finds himself having to learn it and save his community from his Master’s nemesis.
I recommend it for kids and adults. The story is simple but engaging, with laugh-out-loud moments. The action scenes are incredible: intense, fast, and [...]
Jun 14 2008
Duel — A big ominous ugly truck comes barrelling down the highway and makes life difficult for a lonely businessman in a car on his way to a meeting. It’s like Jaws on wheels. Directed for TV by Steven Speilberg in 1971, this 90-minute theatrical cut is nothing but entertainment. There’s no moral to [...]
Jun 05 2008
I haven’t seen many movies lately. I’m not sure why I paid to watch this one.
The Strangers — SPOILER ALERT. A couple looking for a quiet night in their secluded summer home are terrorized by three masked people who walk slowly in and out of shadows while kicking empty cans and knocking over stuff. [...]
May 25 2008
A little bird video. I know it’s not in the same league as J-Walk’s cleaning the pool video, but next weekend I’ll wake up early and record the bird(s) using my good video camera instead of the crappy one, and in the sunlight instead of the shade. You’ll see. It’s gonna be great.
The best [...]
May 24 2008
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — The first and third Indian Jones movies have stories that are fun and characters you can care about. The second movie doesn’t. This, the fourth in the series, has one interesting character (Indiana Jones), and a story that just barely pulls the action forward. [...]
May 17 2008
The Visitor — In a multiplex full of crappy Hollywood blockbusters, The Visitor is an unusual find. It’s a nice quiet night at the movies (there were plenty of empty seats when I saw it last week). It’s a simple story of a professor sleepwalking through his humdrum life until he finds some people [...]
May 11 2008
Here’s a video from that woman who lives with a coyote in Wyoming. Yup, that’s a coyote and a cat living in harmony together.
Via her blog: The Daily Coyote.
May 11 2008
I’m seeing Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen in concert this month, but I would easily give up both of those tickets to see Tom Waits who is beginning a new tour in June. Then he’s going to Europe. I hope he drops in on a few Canadian cities on the way back. Here are the [...]
May 09 2008
Some comments about the last batch of movies I saw: Once, a so-called musical that feels more like a documentary; Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, great acting and great direction; Eastern Promises, perhaps David Cronenberg’s best film; Iron Man, the most entertaining comic book super hero movie I’ve seen for a long time; 28 [...]
May 04 2008
I drove out to Cape Spear yesterday and saw a few small icebergs. It was freezing.
The original audio has been removed because it was nothing but wind distortion. I replaced it with some generic stormy wind sounds.
