A movie-related vacation!
Hi everyone. I've created a new blog, but don't worry, I haven't gone all Sybil on you - at least not yet. Maybe closer to Three Faces of Eve. That blog will be sort of my personal journal. However, since the first post has to do with movies, I thought I'd share it here too. Nextweek I will be going to New Orleans for the first time to visit my dad(who lives there), and I'm very Disney's new movie, The Princess and the Frog, is set in New Orleans. Alas, the movie itself will not play there while I am there, but the Museum of Modern Art has this cool exhibit

A MASSIVE DVD review catch-up
For various reasons I will neither explain nor excuse, I have been extremely remiss in my DVD reviews. Given that I am about to go on vacation (mostly to New Orleans), this will likely be my last post for a few days. So I'd like to catch us up. In the interest of space, and of time, and of challenging myself as a writer, I shall confine each review to a sentence of 10. words or less.Aliens in the Attic: Would collect dust on my shelf.Angels & Demons: The demons win, by a horn. C+

Fun (mostly) with early reviews
I've been having fun perusing the early reviews of films coming to a theater near us.First, some early takes on the film of the holiday  I am most looking forward to seeing, Disney's The Princess and the Frog: Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood reporter.This is the bes

REVIEW(S): Precious/An Education
When I watch movies, I frequently theme them. I'll go on "kicks" for acertain actor or director or series and watch several films of acertain kind in a row. For instance, just this past weekend, I watchedPeter Bogdonovich's Paper Moon and Nickelodeon, both 1970s films starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal (reviews forthcoming). When I went to the movies on Sunday, I didn't have a theme in mind when I watched Precious and An Educationback to back - they just happened to open in Dayton this weekend.Although the movies are very different in tone and style, both arecoming-of-age tales and literary adaptations whose protagonists learnsome very hard lessons. Both

So will I see New Moon? Let's decide!
When I put together my fall movie preview earlier this year, I was in the mixed-to-positive camp on seeing New Moon, or as it is rather pretentiously and fully titled, The Twilight Saga: New Moon.When it comes to all things Twilight (saga), I am neither a ferocious fan nor a virulent villain.  I liked but did not love the first movie. It was solidly entertaining, energetically made and decently performed. I could not rave about the film, and I couldn't rant about it either.I am of the wrong age and gender to be persua