The Fifth Witness A lack of paying criminal defendants has “Lincoln Lawyer” Mickey Haller—so called because his rolling office is a chauffeur-drive Lincoln Town Car—mass-marketing his legal services to people facing foreclosure. But when one of them, a loose cannon … Continue reading
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) As I continue my trek through films inspired on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, I came to this one, which I’d seen years before but largely forgotten—which is odd, since it’s a fun movie. It’s of … Continue reading
In under six minutes, successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer explains clearly and understandably what it takes to create a booming economy. Hanauer is an American entrepreneur who founded and run a number of successful companies going back to … Continue reading
The following is a political ad, so obviously it’s not objective. But as far as I can tell it’s factually accurate. Romney really did make those false accusations, and they are indeed false. This isn’t to say that Obama doesn’t … Continue reading
A Finnish amateur filmmaker named Samuli Torsonnen along with a handful of his friends in Tampere (which is by weird coincidence the only Finnish city I’ve spent more than a day in) started making a series of no-budget short Star … Continue reading
Princeton professor Paul Starr, co-founder of The American Prospect magazine, has written extensively on the healthcare and public policy and was involved in healthcare reform efforts prior to latest one. His book clearly written and concise and corrects some common … Continue reading
Senate candidate Matt Damon has a meet-cute with modern dancer Emily Blunt in a luxury hotel men’s room. He’s trying to work on his concession speech in private and she’s hiding out from hotel security, having been caught crashing a … Continue reading
In Misfit in Middle Earth (2009), a linguistics graduate student named Barbarella (her mother is highly fannish) finds herself magically transported into The Lord of the Rings, more specifically plopped down onto the fields of Rohan some ways into the … Continue reading
Jack Lorentz, the Tacoma dealer in collectable toys who was the protagonist of Love, Death, and the Toyman, returns, this time riding with reenactors portraying Custer as the troops who accompanied him at his last stand. Lorentz himself is in … Continue reading
A young widow (Gene Tierney) is tired of living with her late husband’s needy mother and his obnoxious, overbearing sister, and since she has an income from her husband’s estate she decides to make a home for herself in a … Continue reading