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Review: The Future We Will Create: Inside TED

Movies, Tech 6 July 2008 | 3 Comments

Since Netflix knows we love documentaries, it put this documentary, “The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED” on our queue. We haven’t had a good run of movies lately with “Into the Wild” and “Rocket Science” being total duds. This, however, was a nice change.
The documentary is hosted by Daphne [...]

August Rush – Puh-leeze

Movies 26 April 2008 | 4 Comments

We watched August Rush tonight and couldn’t help ourselves from fast-forwarding through half of it. I usually don’t post about movie’s that I didn’t like, but this one was decidedly bad. The movie’s plot consists of unrealistic scenarios, fatherly types acting terribly, and twists of fate that serve to aggravate the viewer more [...]

If You Liked ‘Lost in Translation’…

Movies 25 August 2007 | 3 Comments

…then you’d like ‘Broken English’.

We had an early evening tonight (read: no babysitter), so after dinner we took a walk (Ace really loves the Baby Bjorn) and ended up at Blockbuster. We got two movies – ‘The Good Shepherd’ and ‘Broken English’. Amanda had heard that the local reviewer, Larry Ratliff, really enjoyed [...]