Category: Watching

  • Black Mountain — “Old Fangs”

    Is it still cool to like Black Moun­tain? I strayed on their last album, but I’m will­ing to come back to the fold if it sounds like this, although I’m not hear­ing the OMG Black Sab­bath freak­out peo­ple have sug­gest­ed else­where. I think I like the Two Lane Black­top vibe of their new video, though. Maybe…

  • Absorbing “Treme”

    It’s way too late on a school night for me to real­ly dig into every­thing I thought about while watch­ing David Simon’s lat­est opus, “Treme,” on HBO. What I have been col­lect­ing, how­ev­er, are oth­er peo­ples’ feel­ings about the show and I am pos­i­tive­ly fas­ci­nat­ed by the response. I’ll start with the obvi­ous. Lots of…

  • Crazy Heart

    What an affect­ing film. Worth watch­ing twice, trust me. It has an inter­est­ing back­sto­ry, too. Orig­i­nal­ly intend­ed for a direct-to-video release, before Fox Search­light gave it a shot at the­atri­cal release. Hard to believe a movie with Jeff Bridges, Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal, Col­in Far­rell, and Robert Duvall would go direct-to-video. It’s the stuff the movie busi­ness…

  • The Hurt Locker

    Won­dered if it was pos­si­ble for any­one to actu­al­ly make a film that cap­tures the soul-crush­ing hope­less­ness of war with­out deliv­er­ing a ham­fist­ed mes­sage that turns peo­ple off. The Hurt Lock­er did that for me. Grant­ed, it has­n’t changed the fact that we’re still heav­i­ly engaged in both Iraq and Afghanistan, despite elect­ing a Pres­i­dent…

  • An Education

    Watched An Edu­ca­tion recent­ly. Won­dered what Band of Out­siders would’ve been like with a hap­py ending.