white noise » Movies http://musings.everwild.net Random pandemonium ... sometimes intelligible, often absurd. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sunday Night DVD http://musings.everwild.net/2007/03/20/sunday-night-dvd/ http://musings.everwild.net/2007/03/20/sunday-night-dvd/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:36:53 +0000 Diann http://musings.everwild.net/?p=125 While scarfing Chinese takeout from a rather new place downtown, Jon and I watched Akeelah and the Bee this last Sunday evening. Although predictable and trite in some areas, it’s a decent movie, well worth watching. Laurence Fishburne does a wonderful job portraying Dr. Joshua Larabee, Akeelah’s spelling coach, and Keke Palmer plays her part (Akeelah) exceptionally well.

]]> http://musings.everwild.net/2007/03/20/sunday-night-dvd/feed/ 0 Want to see a good movie? http://musings.everwild.net/2007/03/09/want-to-see-a-good-movie/ http://musings.everwild.net/2007/03/09/want-to-see-a-good-movie/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:32:49 +0000 Diann http://musings.everwild.net/?p=119 Watch El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan’s Labyrinth). Mind you, it’s dark fantasy, wrought with violence and not intended for the faint of heart (or young children!). The story is beautiful and the movie — unlike most Hollywood movies these days — has substance. Don’t get me wrong, I love Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Chronicles of Narnia, and they each have a certain majesty, beyond being just eye-candy, but Pan’s Labyrinth is moving much in the way Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage is moving.

I don’t care for gratuitous violence or gore (says she who cut her movie molars on B matinée horror flicks) and this movie does deal its fair share of gritty scenes. It hits like an iron fist and what makes it so riveting is the realism it portrays — this fascist darkness hovering over Spain, a sadistic army general who kills unabashedly, much in the way one imagines Hitler did. Then we have Ofelia, newly arrived step daughter, along with her sick and pregnant mother, soon to be trapped in both, the nightmare of human brutality and the fantasy of fairy tales.

See the movie. It’s worth every cent.

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God breathes life into some amazing people.

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