Sounds like a good guess to me, Hec. The name looks kind of like a pharmaceutical brand name, but pretty.

Speaking of Louise Brooks, Pandora's Box is being released on Criterion DVD this upcoming Tuesday.

Saw Bond this afternoon, basically agree with everything ita said upthread.

I was loving the movie right up until the schmoopy hospital scene, which gave me such horrible whiplash that I almost didn't recover. I knew the storyline called for him to fall in love and then for her to die, but I didn't expect it to be in such a dumb way. To me, Eva Green is not remotely dazzling enough to distract from the fact that her character was blatantly lying through her teeth, and it annoyed me that Bond would fall for something that pathetic. (Or maybe she wasn't, and she's not a good enough actress to sell it to me. Either way, I wasn't buying it.)

Overall, I did like it, in spite of the above. I loved everything about Daniel Craig's performance (except for the line "You've stripped me of my armor" which was so wretched that not even his gorgeous piercing eyes could save it ) and the whole darker, edgier tone to the film. The camp is always fun, but it's nice to be reminded that Bond can be a serious spy/action franchise too.

ION, Dork Tower has been reacting to the Peter Jackson not being picked to direct The Hobbit thing.

I saw Deja Vu yesterday. Has anyone else? I didn't much like it, and thought Denzel sleep- (or charisma-) walked through the whole thing.

Plot point, aside of the true mechanics of the thing which don't work according to any framework I can recall--he told her they had a machine that saw into the future, right? So when she was to be questioned by the other him, she couldn't even begin to tell him anything that made sense, especially since the other him was never going to see the device, right?

Seemed tangled to me.

I saw Bobby tonight. It's a weird amalgam--some great acting (Freddy Rodriguez ROCKED), good directing, compelling ideas and TERRIBLE dialogue. I wanted to tear my eardrums out almost every time someone opened their mouth. Joshua Jackson and Sharon Stone gave really strong performances and that was a nice surprise.

I saw The Fountain. Someone explain it to me.

I saw The Fountain. Someone explain it to me.

Love triumphs over death and time. Also, supermicroscopic shots of yeast in a petri dish trumps CGI.

You would have said that even if he hadn't asked, wouldn't you? You like being the expert almost as much as hair clippings, don't you, Hecubus?

You like being the expert almost as much as hair clippings, don't you, Hecubus?

Isn't that basically calling me a know-it-all? I didn't think my reply was all that expert - just glib.