Honestly, I am not in a dark place but today I finished a non-fiction book called Unclaimed about the bodies of deceased people in Los Angeles County who are unclaimed and left for a pauper's burial and then this evening I thought I'd just sit back and chill to a science fiction film where Japan is fed up with the burden of their aging population so they create... Plan 75.
Anyway, very interesting premise and quite beautifully done. The story…
Just saw this performed on stage, so thought it would be neat to see the film version. It was originally a play, then adapted to film, and then the version we saw was adapted a bit differently from both of its predecessors.
This 1954 film version is very of its time and it director. Grace Kelly is both beautiful and boring. She does pretty much nothing in the whole film and even her adulterous relationship feels like a snooze. Ray…
My memories of the Tower Records on Sports Arena Boulevard in San Diego match up squarely with this bland documentary about the rise and fall of the yellow-trimmed record chain: full of promise and delivering nada.
What I gained with this predictable walk down memory lane is that there is nothing good to remember about the 1970s--the men had horrible mustaches and wore their sexist macho ways as proudly as their big belt buckles. There is one woman interviewed in…
This was in a bag of free DVDS given to me. I thought, what could it hurt to give it a try...
I hated this. It's typical Disney crap that wants to cheer, "Girl Power!" while simultaneously promoting all the usual female/male stereotypes and keeping a bunch of other dead gags and tropes too: fat jokes, old people jokes, the heroine ending up with a "prince" at the end of the story.
I guess representation does matter, but the film…
