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Monday, August 29, 2005

I decided that there was going to be no way that I was going to get any of my reviews ready in time to post tonight.  So, I'm just dropping a note to let you know that I'm working on a film review for The Upside of Anger and The Sea Inside.  I'm also working on a music video review for IL DIVO's newest video "Mama." 

P.S.  My wife, J, and I went to see Terry Gilliam's The Grimm Brothers last Friday night.  It was alright.  Entertaining? Yes.  Warrants an official film review? I'm afraid not.  It's a thrown together script in the vein of last year's Van Helsing -- the fairy tales the Grimms created come to life in one episodic story plot that becomes too unwieldy. It really stretches it viability as a film when a blob of mud chases down and devours a little girl, only to transform into the gingerbread man who jumps into the village well.  Yep, that's story-telling at its most clever. Let's just say that The Grimm Brothers is better than Van Helsing; and I deeply loathed Van Helsing.  


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