CM&C:XXIII The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

(March 31, 2014)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Peter Jackson. 2012. ★★★★★★ That’s on a “fantasy movie” scale, though. Commodore: 😃

CM&C:XXII Mean Girls

(March 31, 2014)

Mean Girls. Mark Waters. 2004. ★★★★★☆ Clover Leaf: 😒

CM&C:XXI Hiroshima, mon amour

(March 30, 2014)

Hiroshima, mon amour. Alain Resnais. 1959. ★★★★★☆ Champs-Elysées: 😧

CM&C:XX Like Crazy

(March 30, 2014)

Like Crazy. Drake Doremus. 2011. ★★☆☆☆☆ Caipirinha: 😒

CM&C:XIX Κυνόδοντας

(March 29, 2014)

Dogtooth. Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009. ★★★★★☆ HOWEVER: On the “this is seriously fucked up, dude” scale of one to ten, this one gets a fourteen. I wouldn’t recommend this movie to anyone. The cinematographer did Blind. It’s very pretty. So there you go. Bronx: 😒

CM&C:XVIII Be Kind Rewind

(March 29, 2014)

Be Kind Rewind. Michel Gondry. 2008. ★★☆☆☆☆ Black Feather: 😒

CM&C:XVII Rachel, Rachel

(March 28, 2014)

Rachel, Rachel. Paul Newman. 1968. ★★★☆☆☆ Between the Sheets: 😒

The Book Review Club

(March 28, 2014)

I started off doing the cocktail thing basically off of Wikipedia, but I soon got The Essential Bartender’s Guide. It’s not a guide to essential bartenders, as you might have guessed, but a guide to making cocktails. I really like it. It’s very opinionated. It describes frozen margaritas as an “abomination”, if I remember correctly. … Continue reading The Book Review Club

CM&C:XVI Tron: Legacy

(March 28, 2014)

Tron: Legacy. Joseph Kosinski. 2010. ★★★☆☆☆ Algonquin: 😒

CM&C:XV Palindromes

(March 27, 2014)

Palindromes. Todd Solondz. 2004. ★★★★☆☆ Cosmopolitan: 😒

CM&C:XIV 8½

(March 26, 2014)

8½. Federico Fellini. 1963. ★★★★★★ Sidecar: 😃

CM&C:XIII Me and You and Everyone We Know

(March 26, 2014)

Me and You and Everyone We Know. Miranda July. 2005. ★★★★☆☆ Mint Julep: 😃

CM&C:XII Red Eye

(March 25, 2014)

Red Eye. Wes Craven. 2005. ★★☆☆☆☆ Captain’s Blood: 😒

CM&C:XI Beasts of the Southern Wild

(March 25, 2014)

Beasts of the Southern Wild. Benh Zeitlin. 2012. ★★☆☆☆☆ Daiquiri: 😃

CM&C:X Nénette et Boni

(March 24, 2014)

Nenette and Boni. Claire Denis. 1996. ★★★★★★ Manhattan : 😧

CM&C:IX The Dark Knight

(March 23, 2014)

The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan. 2008. ★★★☆☆☆ I gotta stop using auto-focus. Margarita: 😃

CM&C:VIII Bande à part

(March 22, 2014)

Band of Outsiders. Jean-Luc Godard. 1964. ★★★★★★ Old Fashioned: 😃

CM&C:VII Bringing Up Baby

(March 21, 2014)

Bringing Up Baby. Howard Hawks. 1938. ★★★★★☆ Gin Fizz: 😃

CM&C:VI Batman Begins

(March 20, 2014)

Batman Begins. Christopher Nolan. 2005. ★☆☆☆☆☆ Bloody Mary: 😃

CM&C:V Black Narcissus

(March 19, 2014)

Black Narcissus. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. 1947. ★★★★★☆ Mojito : 😃

Useful Consumer Review

(March 19, 2014)

I need a wireless USB HID button (to take movie snapshots, of course), so I bought this Logitech Cube “presenter”. I need a range of about five meters, so all wireless input devices are kinda chancy. Epic unboxing sequence: So… does it work in Linux? Yes, but no. It generates a Prior event if you … Continue reading Useful Consumer Review

CM&C:IV District 9

(March 18, 2014)

District 9. 2009. Neill Blomkamp. ★★☆☆☆☆ Dark’n’Spicy: 😃

CM&C:III The Pee-Wee Herman Show

(March 17, 2014)

The Pee-Wee Herman Show. Marty Callner. 1981. ★★★★☆☆ Black Russian: 😧 White Russian: 😒

CM&C:II Солярис

(March 16, 2014)

Solaris. Andrei Tarkovsky. 1972. ★★★★★☆ Cuba Libre: 😒

CM&C:I Jubilee

(March 15, 2014)

Jubilee. Derek Jarman. 1978. ★★★★☆☆ Whiskey Sour: 😒

Useful Consumer Review

(March 15, 2014)

My old tv machine worked ok, but it was too slow to play the files MakeMKV ripped from BluRay disks. So I bought a new one from QuietPC. I’ve bought a couple from them before, and they seem to make reliable, fanless machines. So here are the notes on problems getting the video working under … Continue reading Useful Consumer Review

One! Hundred! Movies!

(March 15, 2014)

I used to be a major movie nerd. Watched a couple a day. Went to the Cinemateque regularly. And then I stopped. It was probably a combination of things. First of all, starting a movie meant turning the music that’s playing off, and I hate doing that. And I feel that you have to pay … Continue reading One! Hundred! Movies!

Art Comic Book Store Finder Wanted

(March 12, 2014)

I’ve been travelling a fair bit the last couple of months. One of my favourite things to do in furrin cities is to visit comic book stores. However, finding the interesting stores isn’t trivial. If you’re reading the comics blogs religiously, and you travel to the conventions, and you know a lot of other people … Continue reading Art Comic Book Store Finder Wanted

Offensive Code

(March 10, 2014)

While writing code to format Roman Numerals, I was made aware of the Rosetta Stone collection of code snippets to do the same.  I read the code, and after looking at it for a few minutes, I found myself oddly offended. By the code. Here it is: (defun ar2ro (AN) “translate from arabic number AN … Continue reading Offensive Code

Romans, Countrymen

(March 8, 2014)

I needed to format some Roman numerals, and to my shock and disgust (actually, delight), I couldn’t find anything in Emacs to do that. So I whipped one up. Enjoy. A helpful comment pointed me to this after I had implemented it. I think my code is more understandable. Recursion! Yuck!

Posting to WordPress from Emacs

(March 6, 2014)

I’ve grown increasingly annoyed (I annoy easily) with the HTML editor at WordPress.com. Not that the HTML editor at Blogger was any better. Editing blog entries is just fiddly when you have images and stuff. And you have to upload the images. Boooring. WordPress has a “post by email” feature, so I wondered what would … Continue reading Posting to WordPress from Emacs