Well, I just commented that this really is a good movie in spite of my criticism below, and as if to make my point, I find that there are lots of little odds and ends about it that seemed worthy of their own blog entry. How’s that for an endorsement?
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I recently rented “The Hours” from Netflix. It’s an elegant, poignant weaving together of three women’s lives — Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) circa 1921, a Los Angeles housewife named Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) circa 1951 and a New York editor named Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) circa 2001.
I’m not going to try to do a decent […]

I finally rented the DVD of the recent “King Kong,” and I’ll say what a reviewer said about “Mission Impossible III” — it’s not as terrible as you think.
As I remarked back here, I felt somewhat vindicated when this latest “Kong” didn’t do as well at the box office as projected. I won’t go over […]