Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category

Luke Skywalker, Look Out

I read this article this morning about a woman who has received a robotic prosthetic arm that has sensors that read the signals from the nerve endings in the chest, allowing the woman to simply think about moving her arm and lo, it moves.  Crazy. 
Speaking of Skywalkers, the newest marketing scheme from George Lucas [...]

Wait for It

Turns out that you’re supposed to wait until the very end of the credits of X-Men 3.  As if we needed any other indicators that there just might be a sequel.  Good luck paying the actors.  3.5 Stars for being exactly what a comic book movie should be: skinny on plot and character development, full [...]

Da Vinci & Twist (Oliver that is)

Da Vinci Code - Two Stars
X-Men 3 - Three Stars
Oliver Twist - Four Stars
Oliver Twist the recent film by Roman Polanski - One Star

Trash on Film

I’m not generally in the practice of recommending movies and I realize that by posting this there will be those perhaps that do the opposite of what I’m suggesting, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, don’t watch/rent/borrow History of Violence with Viggo Mortensen.  That movie makes my top 5 worst movies of all time.  I found it [...]

Batman & The Smiths

Since we’ve been in the U.S., we’ve been trying to catch up on some movies because often times in Costa Rica new movies come 6 months to a year after they are released here.  The most recent films we’ve seen are Batman and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.  We enjoyed them both.  Christian Bale is a [...]