Wow, director Chris Columbus, screenwriter Steven Kloves and composer William Ross really knocked another one out of the park with this one!
Er… or, rather… not. And who the hell is William Ross? All I can say is, it’s probably a good way to kill your composing career to take on a well-liked previous score […]
I often browse through AAlgar’s bookshelves, looking for something to abscond with and (hopefully) keep in a safe haven in my otherwise messy den until its eventual return. I borrowed this particular tome from AAl, who started out on this Buddhist discovery trip several years ago.
This book by Dinty Moore (how can you go […]
I first saw this film in the theatre, but I wanted to revisit it recently because of my growing interest in Buddhism.
Jesse is a young boy in Seattle, the son of Bridget Fonda and Chris Isaak, and is thought to be the possible reincarnation of a Buddhist monk who died several years previous, and […]
Recently AAlgar sent me an email:
“Pretty nifty, but I’m forced to wonder: who is this for, exactly? You could tell me (and your other friends) this stuff in an e-mail. Anyone who’s not your friend probably isn’t interested in your job situation or what you think of movies. (They’re not interested in online comics […]
I hate to admit it, but I’m a sucker for films about… well… white men having adventures in faraway lands. That, of course, includes films like the Indiana Jones series, but also movies like Mountains of the Moon and The Ghost and the Darkness. It’s not that I so much like to see white […]
Do yourself a favor. Go watch the trailer, think to yourself, “Wow, that looks like it might be a great film,” and leave it at that.
I’ve never been a huge Brian De Palma fan, and I should have remembered that when I went to see this film. I kept thinking that it might […]
Mmm-hm. Reckon I’d like some o’ dem french fried potaters. Mmm-hm.
Yes, yes. So I’m 6 years late to the “imitating that guy from Sling Blade” party. Sosumi. I like the way he talks. 🙂
“That guy” in question is Karl, a somewhat mentally unstable fellow played by Billy Bob Thornton, who also wrote and […]
