Last night, I watched ”The Great Mouse Detective” with my children.  Among other things, this Disney movie provides Exhibit A for the idea that the villains get the best songs.  (Exhibit B is “Beauty and the Beast”, in case you were wondering.)

But I digress…

I was finally able to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey.  As a long-time SF junkie, I have been painfully overdue in viewing this.  I’ve read the book and its sequels, but I hadn’t gotten around to seeing this.  Until now.

Between my initial speculations and the helpful thoughts from this site, for the first time, 2001 actually began to make sense to me.  As a result, I think that I actually prefer the movie to the book.  While the book gives more detail, I think that the movie is more…

Sometime last week, we sat down to watch the movie Brick.  I had first heard about it on NPR and had forgotten about it until I saw it in my local movie rental store.  Since I’ve been working on my Dirty Secrets project, I’ve been reading a lot of noirish detective novels and watching a lot of noirish movies, so I was eager to see this one as well.  The idea of a noir mystery set in a high school seemed unusual; indeed, I was expecting something on the level of a farce.  But, even a good farce can reveal aspects of a genre, so I was all set.

I was so very wrong.

Brick isn’t a farce at all.  Indeed, it’s a solid entry into the genre.  To be clear, I have decided that I’d like to own this movie.  I don’t purchase movies lightly, since renting is so easy, so I consider this…

Last Saturday, I went to see Mel Gibson’s new movie Apocalypto with Crystal.

I did a chunk of reading on Mesoamerican Indians in 2006, both on Aztecs and Mayans, so I’d been looking forward to seeing this movie for quite some time.  Then I read Josh Gibbs’ review, which only increased my interest in this film.

But, having seen it, it’s taken me until today to be able to put my thoughts about the movie in order.  Was Apocalypto a good movie?  Uh, well, you see…