Double Reading

I tend to dislike films that fall into the “Gay and Lesbian” genre. They are usually either really unrealistic a la (straight) romantic comedies or overly dramatic or too simple and straightforward (thus not really investigating deeper themes that “straight” movies might delve into [and I think part of this is because the "Gay and [...]

The best part of the Catwoman DVD that I rented the other day was the special feature titled “The Many Faces of Catwoman.” As for the movie itself… believe the reviews. It sucked way more than I expected. I honestly assumed all of the negativity came from obsessed comic fans who felt the movie wasn’t [...]

One of the ways in which Darwin’s work has been (mis?)interpreted is that the stonger/better species will evolve while the lesser/weaker species will go extinct (i.e. natural selection). This idea has been somewhat perverted and combined with economic theory to come up with the whole survival of the fittest justification that has been used to [...]

Ever since I first saw Bruce Willis and Diddy show up at some MTV award show a few years ago together, I can’t help but laugh every time I see or hear about one or the other. With Bruce Willis’s Live Free Or Die Hard opening, he’s all over the place now and it just [...]

An old film noir classic that I saw during SIFF 2006. It wasn’t as great as I hoped…

An awesome documentary at SIFF 2006.

After seeing Zizek! in the theatre for a second time I had some additional thoughts I wanted to talk about, but I only got so far as writing the basic ideas down… I watched Zizek! again last night (see my first post about Zizek! the movie) with Molly and Shannon. I gotta say that seeing [...]

I saw the movie Hostel and had a bunch of things to say about it. I actually loved the film and thought that, like Eli Roth’s first movie, Cabin Fever, there was quite a bit of dark, intelligent, psychological stuff going on…

I didn’t even finish compiling my SIFF Stats during 2006… Total money spent on tickets: $133 Total money spent on SIFF membership (which is why I spent less money this year than last year): $100 (benefactor level) Total time spent standing in line: 15+5+10+10 Total movies seen: … Languages: English, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Mandarin, Xhosa, French, [...]

A documentary about The Pixies that I saw during SIFF 2006.