Comedy, Movies

Tom Jones

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This film, which received an Ocscar for best picture in 1963, takes an hour to become funny for someone who is not English. The first hour is filled with dry British humor. The second hour adds drama, making it easier for me to forget that I was standing on a stairmaster, trying to lose a image [Read More]
Diary

Million Dollar Baby

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There is an iron-law of film-making that every director should recognize: When the script is poor, it is impossible to create a good film. Million Dollar Baby has noble intentions. It wants to be deep. Towards the end, it surprisingly gains gravitas and you want to forget that three quarters of the movie were slow image image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

The Butterfly Effect

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The Butterfly effect was coined by scientists who discovered that small changes can have dramatic consequences over long distances (both in space and time). A hurricane in the U.S. may have been set off by the flap of a butterfly wing in Honk Kong. The film applies this idea to the life of individual people. image [Read More]
Curious News, Diary

The Knight “Georg Murmann”

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Reading Don Quixote I learn great deal about the medieval literature about knights. Cervantes spoofs these stories in his famous novel. Apparently, there was also a “Murmann” knight, born in 1766. [Now I know why I am such a chivalrous kind of guy:) ] Georg Murmann entered the military in 1783 and spent all his image image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Cast Away

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I rented this movie because I heard that Tom Hank’s who plays an FedEx employee shipwrecked on a small island entertains you all by himself for an hour and a half. It is not true. The movie is painfully slow in large part because it has nothing significant to say.  I had so much time image [Read More]