Monthly Archives: April 2008

Atonement

Atonement

I tried reading this book about a year ago, but couldn’t get into it.  The movie, while mostly serious and somber, was easy to enjoy.  …

 

Mean Girls

Mean Girls

Ah, high school.  Such fond memories of cliques and backstabbing. Mean Girls was funny. Tina Fey did have a hand in it, after all.  While …

 

Quinceanera

Quinceanera

Decent coming-of-age story about a 14-year old girl preparing for her big 15th birthday, when she realizes she is pregnant.  Her religious-fanatic father kicks her …

 

No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men

I’m not sure what we were hoping for when we rented this movie.  We weren’t overly impressed with the book.  Maybe we were hoping for …

 

Juno

Juno

There was a lot of hype surrounding this movie. I’d heard good things all around, so I’m always skeptical and prepared to be …

 

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Lots of blood and gore. It was directed by Tim Burton, but I got tired of watching the blood spurting from the necks of Sweeney’s …

 

No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men

Cormac McCarthy We listened to this audiobook on our trip to Boston this past weekend. Ed suggested it, and though I was skeptical at first, …

 

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Rating: ***+

 

Shroud for a Nightingale

Shroud for a Nightingale

P.D. James I guess I was in the mood for a mystery again, so I picked up another P.D. James/Adam Dalgliesh mystery.  Not my favorite one …