http://blog.thelyric.com Keeping you up to date on all the news and events surrounding the "Heart of Blacksburg." Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:52:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever read a book and want to see the movie?  In the reverse, I can't wait to read the book Winter's Bone.  If the movie is this good, the book must be fantastic. The plot is rural Americana today:  meth cookers - the new moonshiners.  The people in this movie are ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=320 After 35 years of good, bad and ugly reviews and lots of commentary, At The Movies is no longer.  I have watched the various reviewers, Siskel and Ebert the best and brightest, off and on though these years.  I wneet a period of many years without watching any movies at ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=317 What a bizarre .... film?...montage? ......  con?  Take a strong dose of Dadaism, throw in street art/graffiti, mix in a large helping of PT Barnum and you get Exit Through the Gift Shop.  Dada art goes Walmart?  Thierry Guetta is either an artistic genius, a business genius, a con man ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=312 I found Solitary Man to be a despicably good movie.  Douglas plays the business tycoon/self made man to perfection and when we see the character as he really is - damaged goods - it is almost gratifying.  We learn through the story that he was once a good man who ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=309 Please Give this movie a chance!  First, this is NOT a documentary.  It is a movie about honesty: being honest with others, being honest with yourself, and being honest about being honest.  It is also a movie in how you view yourself versus how others see you.  Complex, yet with ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=305 This movie was way too frenetic for my taste, but for fans of the punk genre, see it.  It is shot in MTV color and style - lots of film cuts and snippets that younger viewers - 20s and 30s - will feel more comfortable with.  I felt the storyline ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=301 City Island is a quirky, funny movie.  It reminded me of The Importance of Being Earnest on steroids with a touch of Waiting for Guffman.  The cast is entirely two dimensional, but that is okay, for this movie looks at relationships in two dimensions: the real and the masks people ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=299 This is one AWESOME freakin' movie!  I give it two thumbs and two big toes up!  Take an old, worn out story about a loser who finds a lost dog that is injured and needs some fixing up and then breathe some dragon fire into it and what do you ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=297 Based on the reaction of the audience tonight, this is going to be an unpopular review of what I think is an important movie. I viewed this movie on two levels.  First, there is the content.  I saw a lot of the polarization of the political left and right in what ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=294 Taking this movie at face value and forgetting any bias about Roman Polanski, I found Ghost Writer to be a classic '70s spy thriller in the John LeCarre mode.  The acting, cinematography, and just the general tone of this movie made me think of the delicious incongruency of English spy ... http://blog.thelyric.com/?p=292