This would easily have been a five star movie had it not been dubbed. There was no option that I saw for the original sound. The movie itself contained lots of great fighting that you have come to expect from Yuen Woo Ping, Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.

This movie has horror elements, but I would say that it crosses the line over to suspense or psychological thriller. The basic idea is that a man’s life is changed forever when he sees a newspaper clipping reporting his daughters death moments before she is killed. After this event he continues to have these strange written premonitions. This movie contains some interesting themes of acceptance, guilt and helplessness.

This was an entertaining movie. My problem with it was that it seemed like it was a children’s story chimera. It felt very much like it’s entirety was taken from a variety of other children’s stories leaving very little originality. Apart from that it was a good story with decent acting and an interesting use of color.

I was expecting the usual boring or gorey American horror fare, but was surprised to find that it was pretty good. That is not to say that it was not filled with poor acting or that the CG was seamless. There were a number of flaws in the film, but they managed to do enough right that it was worth watching.

This was an excellent book. I just finished it and have begun to turn things around. It seems like a lot of work but I need to focus on my next actions and stay with it. It is a relief to get all the “stuff” out of my head.

This was a very enjoyabe book. It was funny, interesting and provided some interesting insight into Japanese culture and martial arts.

This tasted like diet watered down carbonated kahlúa. I liked the fact that it came in a glass bottle, maybe if it was colder it would have been better. Not worth trying it again to find out.

It seems that all people care about today in movie critique is the “suspension of disbelief” factor. As if everyone learned this catch phrase and then measured every movie’s worth against this yard stick.

Let me tell you quite frankly that this movie did not suspend my disbelief. The CGI was quite bad and the story was in many ways corny and unbelieveable.

I liked it anyway. Yes, that’s right. I didn’t think that the movie was believeable and it had bad effects, but I liked it nonetheless.

Why? In was in part because the acting was pretty good, but even that was not it. It was because of the story. The story is something that for the most part Hollywood has lost sight of in its need to shock and awe you with entertainment.

It was as if M. Night had a story that he wanted to tell, the story had purpose and it meant something to him. A story that had a very faerie tale like quality to it. Instead of simply telling the story he decided to write, produce, direct and act it into a full motion picture. Giving that much of yourself to something has worth and it comes through in the film.

A quick look at Yahoo movies shows that film critics didn’t like this movie. They gave it a C. It is ironic that the only character in this movie who dies is a film critic who thinks he has life figured out and states that “There is no originality left in the world.” This movie was not made for film critics and it shows. This movie may not have been made for you either. But I think that if you are willing to set aside what you are supposed to do to critique a movie and just watch it like you would listen to a bedtime story as a kid, you will find it that this movie was made for you too.

I picked up a container of ground Moka JoeNew Morning coffee from the local specialty store yesterday. It is roasted locally (Bellingham, WA) and is socially conscious.

The coffee is delicious and a quick google found that Moka Joe is giving back to the community in more ways than simply making good organic coffee. I am happy to see companies like this one.

First of all, I should point out that this is in no way an instructional movie. It is only performances.

My biggest problem with this DVD was that much of the dancing done on it is not bellydance. Some of the dancers were talented dancers but did not know how to bellydance. Because of this I have seen better bellydancers at middle eastern restraunts and renascence fairs. To it’s credit, the performances on the DVD range from poor to very good. The best of which, in my opinion, was Rachel Brice who with a few others made the DVD worth is cost.