Category: entertainment
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blowin’
As I was scanning the headlines on NPR’s web site, my eyes flitted across a headline that turned the crank on my admittedly already-cranky disposition: “Blowin’ In The Wind Still Asks The Hard Questions.” Heavy sigh. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say something like, “Blowin’ In The Wind Asks Needlessly Cryptic Questions That Are… Read.
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sidecar
Stepping out from the patio after dinner at Mickey’s Tavern last night, we spotted this amazing tandem bike with attached sidecar and had to stop to take a good, long look at it. It appeared to be largely home made, and the side car was equipped with an electric motor to give an added assist… Read.
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tetris
Still a hoot: Read.
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Without
I’m still not at all sure how many of the scenes in the movie Without took place in reality, and how many took place in the girl’s head. I’ve been trying to figure it out since yesterday morning, but it’s still a mystery to me. Joslyn is the 19-year-old girl hired to take care of… Read.
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blackout
Between movies I ventured into the basement bathroom at the Orpheum theater to use the commode, because I already knew what the upstairs facilities looked like, and more importantly what they smelled like, and figured the basement bathroom couldn’t be any worse. I was wrong about the smell, and I’ll never know what they looked… Read.
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Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Raising money to fight breast cancer is a big business, the subject of Pink Ribbons, Inc., a documentary we saw Sunday afternoon at the Orpheum. The film explores the many ways that the Komen organization raises money for breast cancer research, and the effects it has had on the culture of breast cancer victims in… Read.
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Jiro Dreams of Shusi, the movie we saw Saturday night at the Orpheum, is one of the most sublime documentaries I have ever watched. It’s about Jiro, a master of sushi-making whose reputation is so great that people come from all over to eat in his restaurant in a subway station in Tokyo. You must… Read.
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Elena
The last movie we saw at the Wisconsin Film Festival was the very Russian film Elena. How Russian? In the first scene, the sun rises behind the curtained windows of an upscale house, as viewed through the limbs of a leafless tree. The sun hasn’t risen at the beginning of the scene, in which the… Read.
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Ecstasy of Order
Have you ever played Tetris, the video game where you have to stack blocks of different shapes that come falling from the top of the screen? The game appeared first in the early 1980s and has been around ever since, but the first national competition of Tetris players to find a champion didn’t take place… Read.
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Tomboy
A young girl, Laure, and her family move into a new neighborhood. When she goes out to play and make friends with the neighborhood kids, they mistake her for a boy. Instead of correcting them, she decides to go along with it, telling them her name is Michael. That’s the premise of Tomboy, the movie… Read.
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