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• Across the Universe - A Short Review

  Across the Universe - The story is a timeless one:  boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back.  The music is also timeless, including some of the best tunes ever written by the Beatles.   The director, Julie Taymor, is innovative and has a great eye for the visual (see her previous work on [...]

  October 25th, 2007

• Something Wonderful to Read - Bob Rogers: Final Frontier Final

  Julie Neidlinger’s 2007 installment in the annual blogathon once again featured a beloved creation of hers:  Bob.  Bob first appeared on the Lone Prairie Blog during the 2005 blogathon (this first appearance  was subsequently published in book form, and is available here from Lulu.com.),  He has since hung around for these past two years in posts [...]

  July 29th, 2007

• Saving Grace: A Review

  Number One on “My List” is Holly Hunter.  What can I say, she is a wonderful actress, and would be one of only a few women for whom I would give up my single life and remarry.  I have been “in love” with this woman since first seeing her in the Coen brothers’ 1987 [...]

  July 27th, 2007

• In Praise of Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  He is only 26 years old, and yet Joseph Gordon-Levitt has had the kind of career of which many “stars” can only dream.  Known by most people for his role in the  hit television series “3rd Rock from the Sun,” Gordon-Levitt in recent years has a string of captivating roles in film.  Over the last year, I [...]

  July 26th, 2007

• The Prestige: A Quickie Movie Review

  The Prestige stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival magicians in Victorian England.  Their rivalry grows more intense and dangerous as the film progresses, but ultimately the viewer is left loathing both of these men/monsters  as their obsessions with each other become darker and nastier. 
  Jackman and Bale are very good in their roles, as are [...]

  July 24th, 2007

• FeedDemon Reviewed - The Best RSS Reader Available

  I really haven’t written much about technology recently, so I thought I would update you on my experiences with RSS readers.  As mentioned in a post from last year, I reviewed a huge number of free RSS readers over a period of several months.  While there were a number of good free programs, I ended [...]

  July 6th, 2007

• 100 Greatest American Films - 10 Years Later

  This past week the American Film Institute had a special on CBS that listed the 100 top American films of all time.  This was a new ranking done ten years after their initial poll of critics in 1997.  As you will notice below, there have been some significant changes in the rankings, with some newer [...]

  June 22nd, 2007

• Pan’s Labyrinth: A Review

  Pan’s Labyrinth is easily the best movie of 2006 that I have seen. As of now, I have not seen The Departed, The Queen, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Babel (I hope to see them all in the next two weeks), but I cannot imagine that any of them can top Guillermo del Toro’s [...]

  February 4th, 2007

• My Resolutions for 2007 and Two Film Reviews

  I am trying to keep things simple and short term when it comes to my resolutions this year.  In fact I have only three, and they all have to do with organizing my life/stuff.
  As some of you know, I am a pack rat and therefor my life and living spaces become very cluttered.  So for the [...]

  January 2nd, 2007

• More on the Movie Jesus Camp

  For more information on the upcoming film Jesus Camp, which I blogged about here, you might want to check out these sites:

  You may want to visit On Fire at Jesus Camp, an interview from Christianity Today with the film’s directors.
  David Byrne (formerly of The Talking Heads) has a review of the film here
  On Dan Kimball’s [...]

  September 13th, 2006