Diary

Somebody’s Mother

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by Mary Dow Brine The woman was old and ragged and gray And bent with the chill of the Winter’s day. The street was wet with a recent snow And the woman’s feet were aged and slow. She stood at the crossing and waited long, Alone, uncared for, amid the throng Of human beings who passed her by Nor heeded the glance of image [Read More]
Diary

Candy

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The first half of the film was so painful to watch that I considered turning off the DVD player. Strangely enough when words on the screen announce that we are now entering HELL (this is after the two lovers Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish), according to earlier words of the screen, were in image [Read More]
Diary

Romance in the Age of Facebook

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Here is a great story by Joe Flint in the LA Times about the challenges about starting and ending a romance with facebook. More than just Facebook friended Two longtime acquaintances connect on the website, and it’s like a whirlwind—it sweeps them up together and then hurls them apart. It was my first romance of the Facebook era. image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Whip It

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Girl Power comes to Texas. Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut is weak.  But I enjoyed learning about the sport Roller Dirby. I had never seen it before. The sport is a bit rough yet fun to watch. Hey, what do you expect of Texas!

Drama, Movies

An Education

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The skill of con artists is not specialized to particular types of people. The best of them such as Bernie Madoff in recent times fool almost everyone. That is what makes them so dangerous. Teenage girls falling for the bad guy is not news. But parents falling for the bad guy is an underexplored theme image [Read More]
Movies, Phantasy

UP

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It is difficult not to repeat myself in reviewing Pixar movies. Once again the studio has made a superb film. Unlike many sequel franchises that tend go downhill pretty quickly, Pixar’s line of films is one wonder after another. Like all the other Pixar films, UP works for young and old. This time even the image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

It’s Complicated

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“50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce,”  says Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.  Sometimes I hear arguments that the divorce rate is so high because people go into marriage without sufficient commitment. I don’t think that a large image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

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The trailer was a lot funnier than the whole film that was only mildly amusing.  The subject, of course, is serious. Human beings are designed to have sex but some people are extremely shy and lack social skills to hook up. The entire premise of the film that at age forty you can lose your image [Read More]