I did not expect The Hours to be this good. Nicole Kidman plays Virginia Woolf, none of whose work I had to read in high school, Julianne Moore a 1950′s housewife, and Meryl Streep a 21st century lesbian poet. That sounds like a bad T-Rex song, but bear with me. The movie runs three parallel [...]

I was down in St. Louis last weekend and because that city does not have enough things to do/see over a 4-day weekend, decided to go see Prince of Persia.  Coming from Chicago, I couldn’t really pass up paying mere $ 6.50 for it. Anyway, I had been extremely disappointed with how this “summer of [...]

I recently watched Paris, Je t’aime through Netflix because my girlfriend is a Natalie Portman fanatic and insists she watches every film she has ever been in. While I expected a sappy chick flick, I was pleasantly surprised to find it a rather pleasant collection of classy short films, all directed by very reputable directors [...]