What I’m Watching

There’s some sort of tenuous connection between me and the person who created this video, something along the lines of my father has this friend who has this son who makes these YouTube videos, but that’s not why I think you should click on the link below and watch it. You should watch it because a movie about the founding of Facebook deserves a parody, and the Auction Site is a good one. I can’t figure out how to embed this one, so just click here to watch it.

Here’s a quick update of what I have been doing this weekend in the order of occurrence. 1. Yelled at a DVD I watched the movie Adam Friday night. It was a sort of Asperger love story. In general it was a good movie. My yelling didn’t come until the very end. Rose Byrne plays Beth the love interest of Aspergian title character played by Hugh Dancy. Beth is a teacher who dreams of being a published children’s book author. So far so good. At one point she tells Adam about her hope of someday winning a Newbery award. I was impressed that the moviemakers at least had some familiarity with children’s publishing. That all fell apart at the end when we finally got to see the book that Beth had been working on in published form. The problem? It...

I saw the new Alice in Wonderland movie last night, and loved it. I have been obsessed with the Alice books for some time, but always disappointed by every film adaptation ever attempted. (In fact the closest anyone has come to capturing the magic of Alice on film may be that episode of The Muppet Show with Brooke Shields as Alice.) Like that episode of The Muppet Show, but in a completely different way, this new version of Alice deviates quite a bit from the original stories, but does so in a novel way, imagining an older Alice who is on the verge of an unwanted marriage and escapes into the magical Wonderland/Underland. I love the new premise. In typical Wizard of Oz fashion, the characters in Underland mirror the people she knows in her real life, but what I...

I am so excited about the new Alice in Wonderland movie coming out. I’ve loved the Alice books for a long time, have a healthy collection of Alice in Wonderland crap collectibles, and have always been disappointed that all the movie versions of the book pretty much sucked, but with Tim Burton at the helm and the premise being a return to Wonderland by a 19 year-old Alice, I have a feeling that this new movie is going to finally succeed in turning a couple of great books into a great movie. Dad kindly gave me this article about the film from USA Today, because he knew about my Alice obsession. I already wanted to see the movie based on all the trailers I had seen and buzz I had heard, and well because I think Tim Burton is a genius, but the article only drove...

They can also make hilarious videos and post them on YouTube, as the below spoof commercial proves. I found this by way of blogger Megan Rebekah. The star and creator of the spoof commercial is Lara Zielin author of Donut Days. And authors if you are looking for a way to promote books, hilarious YouTube videos never hurt. I am now thinking I need to get my hands on a copy of Donut Days. Here’s Lara’s Bluggie...

I’ve always been a big supporter of the little guy, whether it’s a book from a small press or better yet a book from a small press bought at an independent book store. I really don’t think the best movies out there are the ones that cost the most to make and get the big advertising campaigns. Big is not always better. Proof of that is an independent movie called Phasma Ex Machina. Chances are this movie won’t be coming to your local cineplex, which is too bad because it looks awesome. I discovered the trailer on a screenwriting blog I follow. You can visit their website to learn more about the film and the folks behind it, or just watch this trailer. Doesn’t this movie look creepy...