All Consuming : DoctorTeeth

Consuming "Enter the Dragon"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:04:39 GMT

Enter the Dragon

by Robert Clouse

Consumed "Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:04:22 GMT

Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection

by Abbas Kiarostami

WORTH IT!

Consuming "Parallel Play"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:23:38 GMT

Parallel Play

Consuming "Echoes Silence Patience & Grace"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:47:16 GMT

Echoes Silence Patience & Grace

by Foo Fighters

Consumed "Avengers Assemble, Vol. 1"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:23:29 GMT

Avengers Assemble, Vol. 1

by Kurt Busiek

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:21:16 GMT

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Consumed "Delicatessen"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:18:00 GMT

Delicatessen

WORTH IT!

Consuming "Due South : Season 1"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:20:35 GMT

Due South : Season 1

by Jim Kaufman

Consumed "Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:51:05 GMT

Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition)

Consumed "Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:04:10 GMT

Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition)

by Ang Lee

WORTH IT!

All That Heaven Allows: Bad Story, Beautiful Film (rated 4 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:44:10 GMT

All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection

by Douglas Sirk

It’s not a great story: it’s full of cheese and melodrama. And the acting’s nothing special. But it looks gorgeous. Beautiful lighting, great construction of frame, and amazing colours. It’s just an hour and a half of beautiful visuals. Worth seeing if you like the cinematic aspects of film and can separate it from the story.

Consumed "All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:44:10 GMT

All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection

by Douglas Sirk

WORTH IT!

Consuming "Somewhere in the Night"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:45:03 GMT

Somewhere in the Night

by Nicholas Christopher

Consuming "Battlestar Galactica - Season One"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:56:52 GMT

Battlestar Galactica - Season One

Consumed "The Bridge"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:58:08 GMT

The Bridge

by Eric Steel

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Artists and Models"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:08:10 GMT

Artists and Models

by Frank Tashlin

Consumed "The Dark Knight"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:06:22 GMT

The Dark Knight

by Christopher Nolan

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Forbidden Kingdom"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:09:16 GMT

Forbidden Kingdom

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Forgetting Sarah Marshall [Theatrical Release]"

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:06:58 GMT

Forgetting Sarah Marshall [Theatrical Release]

WORTH IT!

The Trial: Not EXACTLY a trial to read... (rated 4 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:54:40 GMT

The Trial

by Franz Kafka

...but close. The Trial is the story of Josef K., who awakes one morning to be told that he’s under arrest yet free to go about his daily activities; he has no idea of the nature of the crime that he’s been charged with but he still declares he’s innocent, and everyone who’s supposed to help him with his trial indicates that there’s no way that he can possibly win, but he has to keep trying anyhow. The story overall is brilliant and absurd; the book itself is incredibly uneven.

But I suppose that’s exactly what you’d expect from an unfinished novel; I found parts of it simply brilliant while other parts just lagged and let me down. Then again, that might have been Kafka’s intention, to have the reader be as overwhelmed by the protracted discussion of the intricacies of Kafka’s legal system, and frustrated by the apparent lack of a possible resolution. (There’s also quite a bit of relatively “racy” material here, too, which I don’t quite know how to interpret. Maybe that Kafka was sexually frustrated, or sexually liberated, at this point in his life.) The humour comes from the inconsistencies that Josef K. discovers in the ridiculous system, as well as the outrageous characters that see nothing ridiculous about the system. This book highlights both the comedy and tragedy inherent in bureaucracy, and how impossible it is to escape once immersed or surrounded by it.

The Trial is worth reading, if you can handle Kafka’s combination of the absurd and the mundane. I still prefer The Metamorphosis, but The Trial definitely has its brilliant moments.

"Should I read 'Very Good, Jeeves?' " "Indeed, Sir." (rated 4 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (DoctorTeeth) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:29:23 GMT

Very Good, Jeeves! (Collector's Wodehouse)

by P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse writes novels and stories that are easy to read and fairly thin on plot, but that doesn’t mean that his books don’t have substance. It’s the way he writes that’s important: the deft characterizations, the dialogue, and the quick wit that’s on display in every page that make his books so immensely readable. Very Good, Jeeves is a collection of the Jeeves & Wooster short stories, each of them showing idle bachelor Bertie Wooster involved with some sort of very upper-class tragedy that somehow goes even further downhill, but is always pulled out of the soup by his ingenious “gentleman’s personal gentleman”, Jeeves. This third volume of the Jeeves & Wooster stories is, like all the others, worth reading, especially if you like Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams, both of whom were influenced by Wodehouse’s writing style and sense of humour.