Reviews
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Half Broke Horses
Good writin', dontcha think?
Dad • Reviews • 10/16/09 • 0 commentsJulie & Julia
We saw this movie last night and loved it! Two great stories woven together with masterful technique. Funny and poignant...
Dad • Reviews • 08/19/09 • 0 commentsBruce Springsteen can’t sing
Bruce Springsteen can’t sing. He’s right up there, maybe ahead of, Yoko Ono on the list of people who got...
Dad • Reviews • 07/28/08 • 1 commentsWill There Be Blood?
_There Will Be Blood_ is a bad movie.
Patrick • Reviews • 04/15/08 • 4 commentsThe Kite Runner
A simple movie about honor, courage, and how to be good again.
Dad • Reviews • 01/27/08 • 1 commentsMusicophilia
Oliver Sacks has a new book out, called "Musicophilia".
David • Reviews • 10/19/07 • 1 commentsWorld Trade Center
people helping other people for no other reason than it is the right thing to do.
Dad • Reviews • 08/20/06 • 0 commentsHere It Goes Again
The music video "'Here It Goes Again'":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI by Ok Go is captivating, hilarious, unbelievable, and inspiring.
Dan • Reviews • 08/06/06 • 3 commentsA powerful message
Mom and I watched Crash tonight, mostly to see why it won the Academy award. It was an incredible movie,...
Dad • Reviews • 04/28/06 • 2 commentsKing Kong
I've never seen such a collection of super special effects!
Dad • Reviews • 01/14/06 • 2 commentsBlink
It's about judging a book by its cover and being right.
Dad • Reviews • 06/12/05 • 0 commentsEternal sunshine of the spotless mind
I recommend you see the movie.
Dad • Reviews • 06/12/05 • 1 commentsMillion Dollar Baby
Last night I saw "Million Dollar Baby":http://milliondollarbabymovie.warnerbros.com/intro.html. It is a phenomenal movie about family and love and maybe just a little about boxing. The story and the acting are inspirational.
David • Reviews • 02/20/05 • 1 commentsMarch of the Machines
The book is about machines taking over the world.
Dad • Reviews • 01/05/05 • 0 commentsA Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss Hart
Rolling Stone magazine, in another "Special Collectors Issue" has listed the 500 greatest songs of all time.
Dad • News/Observations/Reviews • 11/23/04 • 1 commentsThe Sun, the Genome, and the Internet
Math and science advance our understanding of the world, and this is fundamentally good.
Dad • Reviews • 09/27/04 • 0 commentsBig Fish
As boring and staid as it sounds, all of my stories have been completely true.
Dad • Connections/Ideas/Observations/Reviews/Stories • 09/09/04 • 6 commentsLife of Pi
Yann Martel's _Life of Pi_ is a wonderfully strange book. You should read it.
Patrick • Quotes/Reviews • 07/31/04 • 2 commentsAn Advisor’s Advisor
It’s kind of like “valley girls” talking about something that is beyond their vocabulary to describe, y’know?
Dad • Reviews • 07/16/04 • 2 commentsThe Patriot
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Dad • Histories/Observations/Reviews • 07/04/04 • 0 commentsCidade de Deus (City of God)
Brazilian film _City of God_ punches you in the face and you want more.
Patrick • Reviews • 06/23/04 • 6 commentsKill Bill
Boy o boy. It’s been a long time since I walked out a movie with the feeling I had after...
David • Reviews • 05/25/04 • 0 commentsRISING UP AND RISING DOWN
...his first novel, ''You Bright and Risen Angels,'' ... narrated the endless struggle, down through history, between insects and electricity.
Dad • Reviews/Words • 04/25/04 • 0 commentsThe Meaning of Relativity
In other words... the fact that light speed is everywhere the same leads irrefutably to the conclusion that E = mc2.
Dad • Connections/Ideas/Observations/Reviews • 04/07/04 • 0 commentsPigs at the Trough
For those of you who haven't heard enough about Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and other outrageous business scandals in recent months, Arianna Huffington's book is for you.
Dad • Reviews • 03/20/04 • 1 commentsCatch [It] If You Can
Leonardo DiCaprio gives a surprisingly great performance in a superb film: Catch Me If You Can.
Patrick • Reviews • 03/16/04 • 2 commentsThe Passion
We saw Mel Gibson’s _The Passion of the Christ_ yesterday and found it extremely powerful and suitably controversial.
Dad • Reviews • 03/01/04 • 3 commentsThe working poor
This is a NYT review of a new book by David K. Shipler. The reviewer, Ron Suskind, calls it a...
Dad • Reviews • 02/21/04 • 5 commentsThe Things They Carried
The Things They Carried is a great book. Straightforward and poignant. A work of fiction, Tim says, but then he hits you with truth.
Dad • Reviews • 11/12/03 • 5 comments8 Mile
Karina and I watched 8 Mile the other day. We were curious. Have you seen it? Turns out it’s a...
Patrick • Reviews • 09/11/03 • 12 commentsMatrix Reloaded
What happens when Star Wars meets Superman meets The Terminator meets War Games? Dan and I saw it today, Matrix Reloaded. Or maybe it should have been titled Crouching Men in Black, Hidden Plot. Well, the special effects were cool.
Dad • Reviews • 05/27/03 • 2 commentsTom and Huck don’t live here anymore
[I wrote this in September of 2002 and shared it with Patrick, but I’m not sure if I sent it...
Dad • Reviews • 05/26/03 • 0 commentsTwo Towns of Jasper
Last Thursday my school dedicated an entire day to celebrating and learning about diversity. It was billed, “Diversity Day”. Mostly...
David • Reviews • 05/06/03 • 5 commentsChe’s Motorcycle Diaries
I had heard a lot about Che Guevara’s Morotcycle Diaries, mostly good stuff, and I wanted to read them, especially...
Patrick • Reviews • 03/23/03 • 5 comments