Ordinary Canary

I don’t often sit down to watch a movie, but when I have been watching movies lately, they’ve been from the In Technicolor! era. Recent watches have been For Love of Ivy, Arsenic and Old Lace, Sunset Boulevard and Mogambo. Tonight I’m watching To Catch a Thief. I’ve been enjoying the [...]

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Last Thursday night, I sat down with my little family and watched Ninja Assassin, which was precisely as good as you’d imagine it to be.  (A coworker wonders why they cast a Korean pop star as the awesomest ninja of all; I wonder why we cast American actors as South Africans.  But neither here nor [...]

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Warning: I will spoil the plot. You may not want to read further.
I watched Perfume: The Story of a Murderer the other night, after renting it because Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman are in it and it looked like it would have an interesting plot.
And, well, yes, if horrific means interesting, it [...]

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I have finally succumbed to peer pressure and opened a Netflix account. I was forced into this because the people I watch movies with are, quite frankly, bullies about movie selection. I have basically zero knowledge of popular culture, so can’t keep up with what actors are in which movies and who is [...]

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I watched Devil With a Blue Dress On last night, having determined that the purpose of cable TV and a DVR is recording movies that I never got to see. The movie begins with the narrator discussing how important owning his own home is, especially with the context of his being an African-American man [...]

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