Pushing Daisies is many things at once: detective show, romantic comedy, whimsical fantasy and above all, a story about a guy who bakes pies and has the ability to bring dead people back to life. Somehow all of these things come together to make one of the most enjoyable, funny and bittersweet shows to come […]
Archives for February 2010
Gattaca
In his futuristic thriller, liberal eugenics is common and DNA plays the primary role in determining social class. Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) is conceived and born without the aid of this technology. Because of this, Vincent has a high probability of developing a psychiatric disorder, is myopic, has a heart defect, and his projected life […]
Temple Grandin
A biopic of Temple Grandin (Claire Dames), an autistic woman who became one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry. She overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school, mostly in dealing with […]
You’ve Got Mail
Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) is involved with Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear), a leftist postmodernist newspaper writer for the New York Observer who’s always in search of an opportunity to root for the underdog. While Frank is devoted to his typewriter, Kathleen prefers her laptop and logging into her AOL e-mail account. There, using the screen […]