March 18:
A brief rant:
The following quotation, from Maya Angelou, was on one of our page-a-day calendars:
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Continue reading
Category: TV (Page 2 of 3)
Movies, and a few thoughts:
“The Man Who Invented Christmas” is a slightly biographical piece about the composition and publication of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol in Prose”. It is amusing and heart warming, if you don’t have an allergic reaction to the sentimentality. Some of the performances (Christopher Plummer in particular) are brilliant. We enjoyed this a great deal. Continue reading
Movies and television:
“American Assassin” is a decent by the numbers thriller. It is somewhat hampered by the fact that both the protagonist and the antagonist are very physically similar, and are essentially interchangeable in low light, high speed sequences. There are a LOT of low light, high speed sequences. We liked it well enough anyway. Continue reading