Month: April 2006

Cryptonomicon

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Epic novel weaving three generations of men and women with code cracking, WWII and encryption of data. I have only barely begun reading this novel, but I thought I would come share two parts that I thought were hilarious. The copy I have is just...

V For Vendetta

Britain is ruled by a totalitarian government in the future where no one has any rights, everyone lives in fear and the government runs wild with corruption. Set in the not-too-distant future, but it doesn’t really state when, the United States has fallen to terrorism and Britain has risen...

Junebug

A big-city art dealer goes to North Carolina to meet her new husband’s family who isn’t too sure of the stranger, except for her brother-in-law’s very pregnant fiance who is fascinated with everything about her and her life outside of North Carolina. Towards the beginning of the movie, we...

Spellbound

High strung, nail-biting, intense competition of spelling bees! No really, it’s true! A documentary that follows eight 8th graders as they go to compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. I can’t find the information anywhere now, but I thought I read when this movie came...

Crash

A bunch of people with various backgrounds and races all collide in Los Angeles. I had to trick Jer into seeing this movie. I didn’t tell him that this movie is about everyone basically being racist, which could be true, but is still a horrible thought. I knew that...

A History of Violence

A small town diner owner stops a robbery, which draws the attention of a scary Ed Harris saying he isn’t the man he claims to be. The overall feeling while watching this movie was stillness. It is a small town with Tom (Viggo Mortensen) running a diner while trying...