The Help – A Personal Review

I emailed a good friend of mine that I was going to see The Help, and we would discuss my thoughts when I got back from the theater.  She had been visiting when I was reading the book, and it was then that we had discussed at length only the history and the periphery of [...]

What you should be following: Kat Brooks’ Face2Face

About a month or so ago, I got notification of a new Twitter follower that piqued my interest.  The name appeared as KAT (thekatbrooks) with the profile of a “hippy who makes movies, loves life, time travels and smells good” (at that time there was something about loves really nice sheets, too).  As I said, [...]

Eclipse…True Blood on Training Wheels

Ok, I admit it.  I saw an early screening of Eclipse.  I know, I know, I can feel the accusatory fingers of friends pointing in my hypocritical direction, but I must preface this by saying I became involved in a spur of the moment charity event.  A friend of mine was having difficulty filling a [...]

John Hughes – brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and a criminal

I am saddened by the sudden death of director John Hughes.  When I heard yesterday that he was taken by a sudden heart attack while walking in Manhattan, my first reaction was oh my god, and then, what was he doing in New York?  John retired to Wisconsin in the early 90’s into relative obscurity, [...]

The Reader…black words on white paper and lots of gray in between.

Yesterday I saw The Reader, the post WWII Germany film starring Kate Winslet in her Oscar winning performance.  The film opens when a teenage boy, Michael, becomes ill and is helped home by a stranger, Hanna, a woman twice his age. The two begin a secretive love affair centered on the fact that Hanna loves [...]