Thanks to holiday gift cards, I’ve spent much of my break doing things like reading non-law books and going to movies. Also watching cartoon marathons on television. Anyway, here are my quick reviews of the movies and books.
Avatar is sort of like a twink on ecstasy working a stripper pole. Sure, it’s fun to look [...]
Well, I’m not going as all-out as I did last year with the year in review stuff, but some data for posterity…
Movies I saw in the theater in 2009:
Avatar
Nine
Happy Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Star Trek
The Hurt Locker
Sugar
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Notable not-required-for-school Books I read in 2009:
Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
One L, Scott Turow
Foundation (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, Book 1), [...]
My first full weekend in the city was less than eventful. I spent some time wandering around the Upper West Side, jogging along Riverside Park, and generally getting to know my neighborhood better. I stopped in a dive-y gay bar I doubt I’ll be checking out again and I treated myself to a trip to [...]
Well, the car is packed up except for a few odds and ends (like my laptop, obviously). Since I have specific window of time during which I’m able to move-in, I’m trying to time the trip so that I arrive during that window. That means I should leave Cincinnati sometime around midnight.
The plan is to [...]
This is the movie we thought we were seeing on my birthday:
Sugar: Brendan Fehr, Andre Noble, Marnie McPhail
Based on several short stories by writer Bruce LeBruce, Sugar is a provocative and funny coming of age love story. Cliff, a gay teen, is restless in his sheltered suburban life, and anxious to have his first sexual [...]
I’ve never been much of a trekkie. Sure, I’ve seen most of the shows and movies, but I never really made a huge effort to keep up. Yesterday, I went to see J.J. Abram’s Star Trek.
It’s a really, really good movie and may make a full-fledged Trekkie out of me yet, although I want to [...]
Well, it appears Fox will control the X-Men film franchise forever. They announced a spin-off from Wolverine with Ryan Reynolds’ character, Deadpool. I love me some Ryan Reynolds, and I love me some Deadpool, but after Wolverine, I weep. Between this new movie, X-Men Origins: Magneto, and X-Men: First Class, we’re never going to get [...]
Today was so nice I decided to take a quick trip to the local comic store for Free Comic Book Day (disappointed in the offerings this year, but did buy the Astonishing X-Men books that have come out since last August when I stopped buying comics every week). I also went for a walk in [...]
It’s been a while since I shared my feedback on movies or books with which I have been distracting myself. From the Netflix and the library…
Fling
(Brandon Routh, Steve Sandvoss, Courtney Ford, Shoshana Bush; 2008; dir: John Stewart Muller)
The story of things going right and wrong for a young couple in an open relationship. I liked [...]
I can’t tell you how much I adored Natasha Richardson’s performances in the 1998 revival of Cabaret (or, her performance on the CD, anyway, since I never saw it live). I’m a fan of Liza with a Z as much as any theatre queer, but I doubt I’d have really paid this musical much attention [...]
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