Monthly Archives: February 2009

American Wife

American Wife

Curtis Sittenfeld While this book is a work of fiction, and “loosely inspired” by the life of Laura Bush, I found myself asking the question, “Did …

 

La Maison en Petits Cubes

La Maison en Petits Cubes

This 11-minute movie won the Academy Award for best animated short film.  For only 11 minutes, it was a really moving film.  An old man …

 

Man on Wire

Man on Wire

I saw this movie the day before it won an Academy Award for best documentary.  It was good – especially the old footage from Philippe’s …

 

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

The title of this movie tells the premise of the entire film: two friends, Vicky and Cristina, go to Barcelona for the summer.  While the …

 

W.

W.

W. was an interesting movie.  It was less about George W. Bush’s presidency than it was about how he got there, with a focus on …

 

Sex and the City

Sex and the City

  One user on IMDb wrote a comment, which I thought summarized this movie well: “Cute enough for an evening’s mindless entertainment, but exactly that and …

 

Ferberizing Jack

Ferberizing Jack

Whoever came up with the phrase, “slept like a baby”, probably did not have any children. After months of very little sleep, Ed and I …