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In 2015, I watched 63 movies, down from 100+ in 2014. I came very close to completing my rewatching-all-my-old-favorites project,... (More...)
3 January 2016, 6:22 PM | Comments (0)
A few weeks ago, I decided to take a look at the book of The Martian. I hadn't had much... (More...)
2 November 2015, 9:51 AM | Comments (0)
And yet again, two weeks have gone by without a post from me here. What've I been up to? Day... (More...)
25 July 2015, 3:35 PM | Comments (0)
I saw Terminator Genisys last night. Fortunately, Karen prepped me for it ahead of time, so I thought I'd pass... (More...)
11 July 2015, 9:51 AM | Comments (0)
I just watched the movie Tomorrowland, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more people posting about it. It's the story... (More...)
13 June 2015, 9:31 AM | Comments (1)
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being... (More...)
15 May 2015, 10:10 AM | Comments (0)
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been... (More...)
4 May 2015, 10:32 AM | Comments (0)
On the Toy Story 3 extras disc, there's a segment called “Beginnings: Setting a Story in Motion,” in which the... (More...)
16 January 2015, 10:30 AM | Comments (2)
Last week was fairly difficult for a variety of reasons, but it ended pretty well. After difficult-family-anniversary stress on Tuesday,... (More...)
18 November 2014, 11:13 AM | Comments (0)
(I wrote this entry in July, but was reluctant to post it at the time. Now that I'm ready to... (More...)
12 November 2014, 10:19 AM | Comments (0)
I have no idea whether the new movie The Song is worth seeing, but I was mildly intrigued by the... (More...)
25 September 2014, 9:58 PM | Comments (0)
I just rewatched the 2010 movie Made in Dagenham. It's even better than I remembered it: feminist, laugh-out-loud funny, occasionally... (More...)
21 September 2014, 12:00 PM | Comments (0)
Finally watched the movie of Whiteout last night. It's a thriller set in Antarctica, in which US Marshal Carrie Stetko... (More...)
14 September 2014, 1:47 PM | Comments (0)
I posted here a whole bunch toward the beginning of WorldCon, mostly about the Hugos, and then switched to Facebook... (More...)
2 September 2014, 7:40 AM | Comments (1)
When I saw the trailer for Lucy a few months back, the movie looked pretty bad to me, but I... (More...)
3 August 2014, 3:48 PM | Comments (0)
A few notes more or less pertaining to Sara: On Thursday, driving home from the memorial service for Sara, I... (More...)
19 July 2014, 9:15 AM | Comments (0)
I just read a lovely, excellent piece by Molly McArdle on the joys, and failures, of Narnia. “I write as... (More...)
30 May 2014, 11:46 AM | Comments (0)
Saw the new Captain America movie with Kam a few days ago. Short version of my reaction: I loved it.... (More...)
11 April 2014, 12:07 PM | Comments (6)
I was going to try to do my usual birthday-week thing this week, spreading out fun stuff over the course... (More...)
27 March 2014, 1:50 PM | Comments (2)
I've been meaning for months to blog about specific works and people I'm going to nominate for the Hugos, and... (More...)
25 March 2014, 1:04 PM | Comments (1)
Pat (Spencer Tracy) and Jamie (Katharine Hepburn) are on a sleeper train, and the following dialogue ensues: Jamie: Would you... (More...)
14 March 2014, 10:32 AM | Comments (0)
Have spent most of the past week doing webmastery kinds of things for last night's launch of Jaggery, Mary Anne's... (More...)
9 November 2013, 12:52 AM | Comments (1)
I was having a frustrating evening, dealing with tech stuff. But yesterday, I posted a link to a trailer remixing... (More...)
4 November 2013, 10:49 PM | Comments (0)
A few assorted life updates: Day job I've been at my current day job for nine years as of today.... (More...)
18 October 2013, 10:57 AM | Comments (0)
The other night, Kam and I watched the 1998 movie Dangerous Beauty. I had seen it before, in 1999; Kam... (More...)
14 October 2013, 11:23 PM | Comments (0)
Last night, I watched the 2008 movie Changeling (set in 1928). It didn't do anything for me, and I ended... (More...)
11 October 2013, 10:05 AM | Comments (0)
There was a link the other day (from a non-public Facebook post) to a blog post about Pacific Rim and... (More...)
25 July 2013, 10:56 AM | Comments (0)
Some notes toward the blog entry that I'm probably not going to manage to write about Orson Scott Card and... (More...)
16 July 2013, 12:51 PM | Comments (3)
This is a recommendation to nominate the webcomic Darths & Droids for the Best Graphic Story Hugo award. I wrote... (More...)
5 March 2013, 10:53 AM | Comments (0)
I've been trying to find the very interesting movie Conversation(s) With Other Women on Blu-ray for a while. This post... (More...)
3 March 2013, 3:01 PM | Comments (0)
If you're looking for an intertwining-plot-threads fun sweet romantic comedy to watch on Valentine's Day, you could do worse than... (More...)
14 February 2013, 9:39 AM | Comments (3)
(Can you tell I still don't speak French?) I finally went to see the movie of Les Miz the other... (More...)
10 February 2013, 1:11 PM | Comments (0)
I first saw the 1995 movie Unstrung Heroes in late 1996, and I liked it a lot. I bought it... (More...)
19 January 2013, 9:45 AM | Comments (0)
I watched 70 movies in 2012: 49 that I hadn't seen before, 21 that I had (though usually not in... (More...)
2 January 2013, 12:51 PM | Comments (0)
I've been watching a lot of movies lately, and have taken a look at a few new-to-me TV shows. Since... (More...)
24 November 2012, 12:46 PM | Comments (3)
Finally saw Avengers the other day. Enjoyed it quite a bit—liked it significantly more than any of the precursor movies... (More...)
3 June 2012, 2:15 PM | Comments (0)
There are a bunch of movies (both forthcoming and currently out) that I want to see this year, though I'm... (More...)
3 June 2012, 8:16 AM | Comments (3)
Wow, it’s apparently been two weeks since I posted here. FOGcon was good. It was great to get some time... (More...)
14 April 2012, 12:35 AM | Comments (3)
A couple weeks ago, I somehow happened across a mention of a 2005 movie I had never heard of: Imagine... (More...)
20 February 2012, 11:42 PM | Comments (3)
After watching The Artist a couple weeks back, I went looking at reviews, and found one—generally negative, but with some... (More...)
17 February 2012, 6:31 PM | Comments (1)
I watched 41 movies in 2011, including 8 that I had seen before. (I rarely rewatch movies, but I've been... (More...)
7 January 2012, 1:15 AM | Comments (0)
Some years back, I bought or was given the VHS version of the 1985 HBO special broadcast of Whoopi Goldberg's... (More...)
14 November 2011, 1:31 AM | Comments (0)
Saw Drive on Tuesday night. What a mistake that was. I ended up writing a rather long discussion of it,... (More...)
21 October 2011, 12:28 AM | Comments (0)
I go to one or two movies a month in theatres these days. Most of the time, I go to... (More...)
29 August 2011, 12:40 AM | Comments (2)
Finally saw Captain America tonight, and enjoyed it quite a bit. Not by any means a Great Film. But fun,... (More...)
24 August 2011, 1:13 AM | Comments (0)
I've had the 2004 movie The Terminal out from Netflix for a long time; finally decided last night to watch...