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Saturday, April 25, 2009

An Army of Ex-Lovers by Amy Hoffman

I'm not much of a fiction reader, and so it's great when a gay writer decides to write non-fiction. Amy Hoffman worked as an editor at Gay Community News in the middle of the Gay Rights movement in America, and fills in a little more about to beginnings of the work to equality.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Good, if a bit long movie. Pitt is perhaps the Achilles heel in way because he plays himself, the pretty boy, and the movie over-emphasizes this conceit. I'd say the story falls apart a bit at the end where it needed a bit more craftsmanship. Still, a pretty diverting and enjoyable movie.

Something strange about this movie is that everyone in it loves in a very selfless way. This seems unrealistic.

Eagle Eye (2008)

A surprisingly good action flick. I think I'm kind of warming up to Shia LaBeouf. The movie made me wonder a bit about the science of identical twins. Do they have identical fingerprints? I did a Google search on this and the answer is no. Could they have very different personalities? I think the answer is yes. (There are identical twins with different sexual orientations.) But the story is well done and meets my plot self-consistency criteria.