The John Schwartz School of Film Review

My dad's reaction to movies is usually pretty noncommittal. In part this is because Mom often picks the movies they see, in part because he just isn't that big into them; it's something to do now that he's retired and has evenings to fill. (Possibly another part of it is that he occasionally dozes through parts of what he sees.) So while we don't always agree, we rarely strongly disagree. There is one review from him, though, that pretty much guarantees that I will love a film. That's when he and Mom see a movie and Dad later reports:

"That was the worst fucking movie I've ever seen."

So far he's said this about "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Pan's Labyrinth," and now "Black Swan." I guess I have to see that last, now.

2011 Reading #10: Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

1. Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution In Music by Marisa Meltzer.
2. The Patriot Witch (Book One of the Traitor to the Crown trilogy) by C.C. Finlay.
3. Power Girl: A New Beginning and Power Girl: Aliens and Apes by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Amanda Conner.
4. Strangers On a Train by Patricia Highsmith.
5 and 6. Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost.
7. Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone by David Vassar Taylor and Paul Clifford Larson.
8. The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss.
9. The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin.

10. Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf. Because I am ignorant of Woolf, I thought this was going to be fiction; it is, instead, a polemic on feminism and education. I hasten to add that it is a witty (at times scathing), clear-headed, and well-reasoned polemic, and it has the immediate effect of making me want to read more Woolf.