An Education deals with an older man having a relationship with a 16 year old teen. Yet, it’s not very dark and not creepy. It’s handled in a way that doesn’t forgive it, but doesn’t draw direct attention to it either. Instead, we are left to watch young Jenny (Carey Mulligan) learn for herself why [ Read More ]
Archive for November, 2009
Precious is an amazing movie. It’s also a heavy movie, very heavy. I was shaken even as I walked out of the theater to my car, and the movie lingered with me the rest of the night. I love movies like that. Precious (full name – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire) is [ Read More ]
INK is a movie about forces of dark and light fighting for an 8-year-old girl. The story moves between the real world and a metaphysical one as these forces battle unseen to us, but in ways that impact the real world. I started following Double Edge Films on twitter a while back and followed bits [ Read More ]
Normally, I don’t write reviews for movies I watched on DVD. For certain movies, I’ll make an exception – movies that blow me away because of their content and execution. Movies like “Food, Inc.” “Food, Inc.” is a documentary about the state of food consumption in the U.S. It tracks the common foods many of [ Read More ]
I have to be very self-disciplined with my schedule since I have nobody to answer to but myself. It means outlining clear weekly goals and trying to stick to them as best as possible. The toughest thing about this is that because I’m following so many different leads for work/pay/creative outlets that my weekly schedule [ Read More ]
November is NaNoWriMo month. This is the first year I’ll be participating. What is NaNoWriMo you ask? Well I’m glad you asked. NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. It takes place every November. The goal is to write an entire novel (50,000 words) in one month. You can outline, plan, do whatever you [ Read More ]
