Movie: "Happy Feet"

This is pretty good. I especially enjoyed the soundtrack and the animation. There were portions that looked so real, I am not sure if there was actual photographic footage mixed in or not. The penguin dancing was quite good too.
(Released November 17, 2006)

Movie: "Everyone's Hero"

A cute little story where a boy, a ball and a bat can save the day. The animation is nice and the characters are lovable but don't read too much into it. There is not much truth in the story: I'm pretty sure there are no talking baseballs and I hope no ten-year-olds jumping train from New York to Chicago.
(Released September 15, 2006)

Movie: "Wordplay"

Wordplay is an entertaining documentary about the inside world of crossword puzzles. It follows The New York Times' crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and many other avid puzzle solvers and puzzle creators including Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, Bob Dole, and Bill Clinton. I would recommend this to anyone who loves words or loves someone who loves words.
(Released June 23, 2006)

Blood Diamond (Released December 6, 2006)

A movie that follows two classic plot lines of "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl". All of this is set against the civil unrest and war atrocities around the Diamond Trade in Sierra Leone. The first is of Danny Archer played by Leonardo DiCaprio and the second is Solomon Vandy played by Djimon Hounsou. The Archer character was shallow and poorly written. I wished that the main character had been Solomon Vandy and Archer had been the supporting role. The movie was very enlightening in portraying the human condition and the horrors of the diamond trade. I am pretty certain that the movie was fiction but I do not know how much of the horrors were based on the true horrors that occurred in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s. It did peak my interest to find out more about the region.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Released November 3, 2006)

Borat is a funny mockumentary. I watched it with my 10 year old son and I was amuzed that we laughed at different times. It had much of the potty humor that Sacha Baron Cohen always has in his "Da Ali G Show" and also much more subtle humor.

Kermit, good news. It's getting easier to be green!

Easy ways to go green:
1. Stop hunting for parking. Pull in and park in the first available space even if you'll have to walk a few extra steps or walk instead of driving.
2. Use those curly CFL bulbs. They give a 100-watt appearance for only 13 watts of power used. Remember if the bulb breaks, EPA recommends that (1) you immediately open windows to reduce mercury concentrations inside your home; (2) you do not touch the spilled mercury; (3) you clean up the broken CFL glass carefully and immediately (but not with your hands or a vacuum cleaner), and (4) you wipe the affected area with a paper towel to remove all glass fragments and mercury. EPA further recommends that you place the paper towel and glass fragments in a sealed plastic bag and bring the sealed bag to your local Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Site.
3. Use wind energy. Modern windmills are quieter, and the energy is renewable.
4. Stop drinking bottled water. You are getting clean water, even cleaner in many cases, from your tap. All the energy spent in bottling, transporting and recycling is unnecessary. When a bottling company ad said "because it's not bottled in Cleveland, " a comparison found 6.3 micrograms of arsenic per liter in the bottling company's water while Cleveland's water had no measurable arsenic. If you are still not convinced about the safety of your tap water, buy your next refrigerator with a filter or get a portable filter pitcher.
5. Turn off vampire devices. Even when not in use, rechargers and plugged-in TVs, CDs and VCRs consume energy. Put them on outlet strips that are turned off at night or when not in use.
6. Have a clothesline. The sun, nature's own clothes dryer, not only saves energy, but your clothes last longer, maintain their colors and get sanitized.

Taken from "Go green in eight simple steps. Honest" By AUTAR KAW Published July 5, 2007 in the St. Pete Times

Assume the Position 201 with Mr. Wuhl (2007)

Director:Robert Wuhl

Writers:Will Reiser
Rebecca Reynolds
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Release Date:7 July 2007 (USA) more
Genre:Comedy / History
Tagline:The Class You Don't Want to Cut.
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