“The Soloist:” What I Watched This Weekend
The Soloist, starring Jamie Foxxs and Robert Downey Jr., shows both the overwhelming problem of homelessness and the power of friendship to connect people from two different worlds.
Puppy Love, A High-Tech Exec., A Bridegroom With So Many Choices.
This Week on Digitale Stories. Analy Math teacher Walt Hays, the film "Marley And Me," and the American Risotto vignette, "So Many Women."
“The Time Traveler’s Wife”: What I Watched Last Weekend
It’s bad enough for a time traveler not to know where he or she is going. It’s even worse for a viewer to start worrying that a movie is going nowhere fast. Here is a film with a cool concept: time travel. And it’s the special kind where the traveler [...]
A Girl Growing Up, A Socially Conscious Entrepreneur, a Killing and a Drunken Mob
This week on Digitale Stories: a classic book series, an Ivy League grad wants to assist the Developing World, a tale of lawlessness in the California Gold Rush.
Author Angie Chau’s Homecoming
It seemed a celebratory moment Saturday night for author and former Santa Rosan Angie Chau. Friends, parents and at least one former teacher gathered with others at Copperfield’s Books in Montgomery Village to hear her read one of her short stories and to applaud her first book: “Quiet As They [...]
“Catfish,” What I watched This Weekend
"Catfish" is all about chasing a story, and that means lots of hand-held camera scenes in cars and hotel rooms and kitchens and the front porches of homes that we're waiting to enter and get someone to finally tell us the truth. The shots will be incredibly familiar to any [...]
“Much Ado” — What I Watched This Weekend
Don't run. It's just a sweet morsel from the Bard. "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.” DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH c. 1993
A bully, an organic farmer, a doomsday fantasy, a world turning upside down.
A post on the Japanese film, “All About Lily Chou-Chou;” a review of Suzanne Collins’ book, "The Hunger Games;” a video on a woman pursuing her dreams of being an organic dairy farmer; and a vignette of a teenage girl whose world is turning upside down.