Dusty Springfield is amazing. Is this “best of” CD a joke? Only 12 songs and not one is Son of a Preacher Man. WHAT?

worst. book. ever. creepy.

Do not let this benign-looking cover fool you. This is, in fact, the fanciest and most ridiculous financial planning DVD I have ever seen.

Was it the crude computer graphic living room set? Or the fact that the girl talking in front of it kept walking to the far left of the shot, and half out of view?

Maybe it was the presenter who had to yell her lines over a running fountain in the background?

Perhaps it was the flashing effects whooshing the viewer from segment to segment?

NOPE, the magic in this DVD comes from the douchebag in an oversize suit transmogrified into Max Headroom, jerkily spewing tips on fiscal responsibility.

Was this DVD informative, accurate, practical, and succinct? Who knows? I was too distracted by the super rad style. (Although I do remember this great advice to SAVE MONEY and if you are already saving, well then SAVE MORE.)

WAY TO GO, makers of this DVD, you really have changed my life.

i saw this at a special screening in ottawa with a q&a with hometown director dean deblois.

i have been lucky enough to experience sigur rós live and travel to iceland, and was absolutely blown away by both. this documentary doesn’t quite do justice to its mission to capture the gorgeous grandiosity of the nation or the music.

this film is enjoyable, and some of the tour locations and still shots are captivating. the music of course, is fantastic. but overall i found it a bit lacking, disjointed and amateurish. the director mentioned the project went through several rough patches, and he only came in at the end when the performances were already shot.

nothing short of a massive national geographic crew and imax film would make me rate this ambitious project more than wishy washy. go experience sigur rós and iceland for yourself.

I love Wendy Mass’s first book, A Mango-Shaped Space. This one not so much. I was really drawn to the first half, and initially liked the repeat of chapter events from different perspectives, but then it lost momentum. The only thing really that kept me to the end was finding out what was written in Katy’s note. Ended up a bit disappointed, but still a worthwhile read. Looking forward to her latest, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life.

my dvd player broke halfway through this movie. so i guess there’s no more looking at you, kid.

i really cannot say enough about how terrible this movie is.

i saw this as a free premiere, and i’m so glad i didn’t waste one cent on it. it was extremely predictable, sappy and overly sentimental, filled with awkward and unnecessary product placements, and the big closing scene was ruined by a boom mic in the shot.

cameron diaz’s character is unrealistic, while kate winslet is overly emotional. jude law and jack black are charming, but the movie focuses mostly on the girls. the christmas timeline didn’t add anything to the story except incredulity. no one would throw a hollywood lifetime achievement recognition event between xmas and new years! also the movie felt four hours long. hopefully the movie was slimmed down and fixed up for wide release.

I read half of this book before returning it to the library. The first ten pages are made up of single quotes, the rest is a handful of dubiously connected stories. The drawings are cute, but I didn’t find it funny or even interesting.

People already familiar with the other Land of Nod books might have a easier time of it, but this “Rockabye book” totally put me to sleep.

I gave up on this book after 57 pages.

This author is trying too hard to be “edgy”. If I wanted to read terrible poetry I would pull out my own high school diary.

There are so many great books out there, this one is not worth wasting time on.