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Currently ReadingRecently Read | The cover story of the latest ABA Journal is the 25 Greatest Legal Movies. I’m not at all surprised at that top two but was very pleasantly surprised that My Cousin Viommy ws third. I never tire of this movie, which contains perhaps the most concise opening statement ever: “Everything that guy just said is [...]            Tim August 5th, 2008 | Tags: DVDs, Law, movies | Category: Film | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostA while ago I discovered Lists of Bests, a site that is just what the name implies. It is a list of “bests,” whether by award or personal preference. Looking at it this weekend, I wondered if the fact I hadn’t read any of the National Book Critics Circle award winners this year was unusual. [...] Tim March 10th, 2008 | Tags: Books, DVDs, movies | Category: A Reading Life, Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostIn light of my recent post about modern life and dystopias, the Dystopian Movie meme I found at SFSignal seemed timely. The rule is simply to put in bold the movies you’ve seen from the following list of top 50 dystopian movies. Metropolis (1927) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Brazil (1985) Wings of Desire (1987) Blade [...] Tim October 3rd, 2007 | Tags: DVDs, movies, sci-fi | Category: Film | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostI saw a reference on kottke.org to an LA Times column in which film critic Jim Emerson listed 1030 movies a person should know, “at minimum, to be somewhat ‘movie-literate.’” I decided to see how “literate” I am. Movies I’ve seen are in bold, ones in my Netflix queue are underlined and those with no [...] Tim April 26th, 2006 | Tags: movies | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSerenity fell 51 percent at the box office this past weekend. While it did remain in the top 10, the drop and total take certainly doesn’t bode well. The film has brought in $17.6 million (against $39 million in cost) over two weeks. According to The Signal, word is it will take $80 million worldwide [...] Tim October 10th, 2005 | Tags: movies, sci-fi | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSerenity was Number 2 at the box office this weekend, raking in an estimated $10.1 million. A few commentators says it’s a “tepid” opening, “one of the year’s biggest flops” and that it “pretty much kills off the Firefly/Serenity universe.” I guess box office numbers are another thing I don’t understand. As I read the [...] Tim October 3rd, 2005 | Tags: movies, sci-fi | Category: Film | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostOkay, I’m extremely biased. I am probably one of the few people who saw the very first and every subsequent episode of the canceled Firefly television series when they first aired. I came to love the characters so much that seeing them come on the screen in the movie Serenity was like having old, close [...] Tim October 1st, 2005 | Tags: movies, sci-fi | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThe Agony 1:45 p.m. — Scheduled start time of first matinee of Serenity at local multiplex. 1:52 p.m. — Electrician, last in series of servicemen, leaves my house at conclusion of approximately six hours of home repair. While the theater is probably five or so minutes away and I know the previews will drag on, [...] Tim September 30th, 2005 | Tags: movies, sci-fi | Category: Film, Personal/Family | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostObservant visitors will note the Serenity countdown has been removed. That is because the Big Damn Movie (Firefly-geek phraseology) opens nationally Friday. Sadly, I am unaware of any screeners or midnight showings here. I hope to make the first matinee at Century Friday because the BDHT (Big Damn Hockey Team) plays Friday night. Some home [...] Tim September 29th, 2005 | Tags: movies, sci-fi | Category: Film | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostWhen I first discovered the joy of foreign films, I decided a salutary mission would be to see all the films that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film or the Golden Palm (Palme d’Or) Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Let me tell you, that is not an easy task given the video rental [...] Tim May 21st, 2005 | Tags: DVDs, movies | Category: Film | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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