http://lensflair.today.com Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:36:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I again watched the classic 2003 Czech film "Most." My high school youth group showed this 30-minute gem a couple of years ago, but it was just as poignant on a second viewing, if not more.  The subtitles are helpful, as there are a couple of funny lines, but ... http://lensflair.today.com/2009/02/07/most-impactful/ [Yes, I know I butchered the title.] Well, to get myself out of my semi-morbid jump-every-time-the-phone-rings mood, I've been watching Chuck on Hulu...along with some Pushing Daisies on ABC.com.  Nothing like that free, quirky online television to brighten my day (and slowly steal away all of my break time). Apparently, ABC is ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/30/hulu-hoops-and-three-ring-circuses/ [The subject line is an Eddie Izzard quote that seemed appropriate.] Okay, so, I said (or at least implied) that I would be taking a break from movies of the horror-ish variety. Interestingly enough, I ended up in the car with my mom today, and she asked me what I'd been watching ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/29/principles-thank-god-some-principles/ Okay, so, I confirmed my suspicion about myself: I, Hannah Rose Roberts, do not enjoy being scared by a movie unless I am in the company of other people. Maybe I was just trying to watch The Ring too soon after my little Silence of the Lambs experiment.  Maybe it was just ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/28/ring-around-the-rose/ So I just found out about this music video competition, and I know what I'm going to be spending my weekend doing.  I'm sure there are a zillion people entering this and I have no chance of getting it, but then again, that's what I might have said about Apple's ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/27/oooooh/ Well, Christmas came.  Good stuff. My favorite part was probably when my little sister got a keychain with faux bubble wrap on it, so she can walk around with it and get her bubble-popping fix. The things people come up with, honestly! My mom got a DVD of The Sound of Music, among ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/26/the-sound-of-bubble-wrap/ I finally did it. I sat down with my laptop and popped in the disc that threatened to scare me just by the concept. Yep, I watched The Silence of the Lambs  last night.  In my room.  By myself. But I'm not stupid--I kept a lamp on the whole time, and even though ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/25/the-science-of-the-lambs/ Q. What do you get when you cross nihilism, existentialism, and Sam Spade-esque sleuthing? A. David O. Russell's quirky 2004 venture I Heart* Huckabees. Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin's "existential detective" characters throw their costars for a loop with their psychoanalysis of--well, everything--combined with a tendency to go to great lengths spying ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/22/heartless-huckabees/ We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to bring you a brief, immature rant: HOW THE HECK DID I GO OVER MY CELL PHONE MINUTES, AND WHY DO I OWE VERIZON WIRELESS $80 EXTRA BECAUSE OF IT??? Honestly though.  I never even come close to going over.  And then there was this month, ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/21/agh-alternately-titled-i-should-have-just-emailed/ Before I left school, I was able to check out 10 DVDs from our school's Production Center--unfortunately, I wasn't the fastest, so many film majors had already descended on the stash of movies by the time I got there.  Still, thanks to others' slowness (and the popularity of NetFlix), I ... http://lensflair.today.com/2008/12/20/cheat-the-parents/