Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Friday, March 08, 2019

Review: Free Solo

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Free Solo is the movie about Alex Honnold's free solo of the El Capitan. I watched it because my wife had taken Bowen indoor rock climb...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Review: Samsara

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Baraka is the only BluRay in my collection I ever wore out from watching it too much. (It also got loaned out quite a bit, so it wasn't...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Amazon's customer focus blows my mind

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Amazon's customer focus blows my mind, especially as someone who knows how the sausage gets made at big companies. One day, I was watchi...
Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Review: Summer Wars

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I came to Summer Wars with low expectations, thinking that it was part of Hosada's pre- Girl Who Leapt Through Time work. Turns out th...
Friday, January 05, 2018

Three Mamoru Hosada Films

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This holiday period, I was hoping to take Bowen on a bike tour. (Yes, rather than ask for a Christmas present, he asked for a bike tour!) Bu...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Review: Your Name

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I rarely review movies, but Your Name is an exception. It was Japan's highest grossing movie in 2016 and was apparently a hit in China ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Little Boys Are So Sensitive

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In most human cultures, the males of the species are supposed to be tough. But of course, little kids, including boys, just aren't that ...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

Review: Ex Machina

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I don't usually review movies on this blog, but I'll make an exception for Ex Machina , a delightful science fiction movie about AI ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Review: Boyhood

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I'm a Richard Linklater fan. Before Sunrise/Before Sunset / Before Midnight were all excellent movies, as intense as any experiences you...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Review: True Romance

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Somehow, I missed True Romance when it first came out in the theaters, and when I saw that Amazon was having a sale on a Quentin Tarantino ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Review: Indie Game The Movie

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I will admit that I know Jon Blow, one of the 3 game developers featured on Indie Game , and that was one of the draws of the movie to me. T...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Review: Journey

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Journey , for me, was a magical experience. When I sit down a reflect on the games I've played since December last year, many of them fa...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Review: The Last of Us

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The Last of Us is a weighty game. It lets you know this the moment you start it up, because to even start a new game requires lots of disk ...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Review: Dear Mr. Watterson

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I watched Dear Mr. Watterson in the hopes of gaining some insight about Calvin and Hobbes , easily one of my favorite strips. Since Bill Wa...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Review: Before Midnight

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I saw Before Sunrise/Before Sunset as a set of movies years ago. Those were great films, so when XiaoQin mentioned that Before Midnight wa...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Review: The Amazing Spiderman 2012

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I missed the reboot of the Spiderman movies last year, so caught it on my Nexus 7 instead recently. The Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies were...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Review: Ted the Movie

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Two guys are lifelong friends and roommates, but then one of them gets a girlfriend and the other is forced to move out. This sounds like a ...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Review: The Cove

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I don't usually review movies on this blog. First of all, I have my hands full just reviewing books. Secondly, to my mind, most movies c...
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Saturday, September 08, 2012

Review: Premium Rush

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We needed an excuse to visit the Living Room Theater in Portland, and Premium Rush was available at a reasonable time, so we paid a visit....
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Review: Scott Pilgrim

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I came to Scott Pilgrim by way of the movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World . I could explain the plot, but you'd probably have more fun wa...