Just Watched Fight Club
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage | Comments OffI just watched Fight Club for the first time. I've got to say, it was not at all what I expected, and I've got to write about it. I'm also going to post another review this weekend (Peter Pan), which ...
WIE on What the Bleep?
Friday, January 14th, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | No Comments »What Is Enlightenment? » magazine has an excellent review » of What the #$*! Do We Know?, the movie which I had considered a mixed bag of entertaining, popularized science on the one hand, and grossly deficient pseudo-mysticism on ...
Pleasantville
Monday, January 10th, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage | No Comments »Anyone who knows me well knows how much I love the movie Pleasantville. Ever since I saw it almost six years ago, it's been in the top three of my all-time favorites. My previous review was very sketchy. I've posted ...
What the #$*! Do We Know
Sunday, September 26th, 2004 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | No Comments »About 20 years ago, I encountered quantum mechanics in The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav, and the Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra. Despite the relative popularity (note the emphasis on "relative") of such books, the average person ...
Last weekend at the Naro,
Tuesday, September 14th, 2004 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage | No Comments »Last weekend at the Naro, I had the pleasure of watching the director's cut of Donnie Darko. Simply put, it's brilliant. I discovered Darko on video two years ago, rediscovered it with the deleted scenes last year (and ...
Spider-Man 2
Monday, August 9th, 2004 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | No Comments »My review of Spider-Man 2 is now up. I see my reviews splitting into two categories—short capsule reviews handled as blog posts, and longer reflections in which I write at some length about a movie, including what I see ...
The Day after Tomorrow (Or two years after next?)
Monday, July 26th, 2004 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Peace and Justice | 1 Comment »There's been almost a glut of good movies this summer. I really haven't had time to comment on most of them yet, and probably won't get to some of them. I was actually going to pass on making any mention ...
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. .
Thursday, June 24th, 2004 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | No Comments »Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . . and Spring is the title of an enthralling movie I saw last night at the Naro. It's a beautiful Korean movie about an old monk and a young monk in a small Buddhist ...