6.08.2009

Brick

You may not give a damn about what I'm watching through Netflix, but I didn't blog in the month of May, so I'm just going to throw everything against the wall...

Brick
At first, I didn't like it. The characters are not believable, the dialogue is preposterous, but then I reminded myself that it was a genre movie. It's a Film Noir. It has all the trappings one would expect from a noir: a dead girl, a hard-boiled detective, a femme fatale, twists, turns, angles and campy Dashiell Hammett style dialogue. It just happens to be set in a high school.

6.03.2009

Yeah, so um... May; I don't know what happened. I was working on a post about the drug war and then the next thing I knew, it was June. So anyway, you may have noticed that I heart the BBC mini-series Jekyll. It has the greatest opening scene ever: