This was my first experience of the MacBeth story, and I think for me the tale will always conjure up images of the aldritch Spider’s Web forest from this film. I think it’s the best black and white cinematography I’ve ever seen. It’s facinating just to see a western story acted out in a Japanese…

It’s been a long time since we’ve been to a live show, so when Ann told me the Reverend Horton Heat was playing the Aggie Theater on a Thursday night in Fort Collins I said, “Let’s do it!” It soon becomes obvious I’ve forgotten everything I ever knew about seeing a show. It was billed…

I haven’t watched this Monty Python movie since I was teenager. What a different movie it is as an adult! The over-the-top, rebellious crassness of it appealed to me as a raucous youth. Now, I understand what the crassness is making fun of! It’s not the fat guy puking all over the place that’s funny,…

I’ve now finished this book, after discussing it with the author here a few weeks ago. It’s a challenging book, more interested in probing a character most of us would immediately dismiss as a nut than trying to entertain the reader. I’m glad I stuck with it. My own explorations of my connection with nature…

This movie must have been inspired by the last great con-artist movie I saw, Nine Queens. This one, however, sports an obsessive-compulsive con man character – a stroke of genius. Nicholas Cage does such a good job with it, I started to twitch and fidget in sympathy. It makes an interesting story into an absolute…

This was a good movie to catch at the $2 matinee with my dad and Sarah, who left the theater waltzing. It’s goofy, but fun. If you’re a ballroom dancer, you probably won’t be able to help enjoying yourself. It also manages to do a little real exploration of how personal change might affect an…

Good, for a Hollywood action movie. It’s not nearly as philosophical as it could be with the story setup, but the theme of self-exploration leading to shock and denial is interesting enough to give power to the standard evil government project coverup plot.

This is one of the better artist portrait films I’ve seen. It incorporates her accident, physical problems, lovers, husband, politics, and especially her art into a very real-feeling world. Ann has read a book about Frida, and from what she’s told me the movie is fairly accurate, but a little romanticized. No matter, it’s an…