Video Makes Me Very Happy
I was watching an episode of Subterranean on MTV2 from last year (it was on the TiVo) and came across this video. I love it! It is sweet and twisted. The song is super catchy too. I can’t stop watching it. Of Montreal – Wraith Pined to the Mist...
Kung Fu Hustle
From the director of Shaolin Soccer, set in 1930’s Hong Kong, a bad guy get caught in the middle of a battle between mobsters and slumlords. It’s filled with over-the-top cartoonish kung-fu fighting. I had watched the beginning and the end of this movie quite a while ago, but...
Music From Another Room
Jude Law plays a romantic who believes he is meant to be with a certain woman, much to the dismay of her fiance. I caught this one weekend morning when I was flipping through cable channels. I wasn’t really awake so I kept it on it since it had...
Hex
Hex Thursdays, 10pm BBC America At an English boarding school, a girl realizes she is a witch and while trying to deal with her newfound powers, the devil is trying to seduce her since he needs to procreate. I love the supernatural shows, so I had to check this...
Cars (2006)
On the way to the prestigious Piston Cup Championship, a hotshot race car who cares only about winning learns about what is really important in life from the automotive inhabitants of a town along historic Route 66. (from Fandango.) Owen Wilson supplies the voice to the selfish Lightening McQueen,...
The Ice Harvest
On the outside, this movie should be good. John Cusack is awesome, Billy Bob Thornton is under-rated, and Harold Ramis has made some really excellent movies. This is not one of them. The story is pretty vague and hard to follow....
Wicker Park
Josh Hartnett meets a girl who reminds him of an old girlfriend who went missing and he starts his search for her again. When discovering the Postal Service a few years back, I downloaded their cover of Against All Odds. That’s when I realized it came from the soundtrack of...
2006 Season Finales
I thought I’d post what I thought of the season finales that I watched this past season and rate them from best to worst. Some shows I haven’t seen everything from this past season, so I’ll eventually see what happened to those shows this summer, but I think I...
Mission Impossible: III
Tom Cruise is back with the third installment directed and written by J.J. Abrams (Alias and Lost) and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Keri Russell. If this movie wasn’t directed by J.J. Abrams, I wouldn’t have wanted to watch it. I loved the first movie when it came out....
Shopgirl
Claire Danes is lonely when she meets bumbling Jason Schwartzman and starts to date him. She is then wooed with more wit and style by Steve Martin. I watched this movie in Dallas since I was trying to pick a movie that I didn’t think Jer would want to...