Archive for June, 2008
Normal Guy 50-Words-Or-Less Plot: Documentary directed by Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo about the competitive playing of Scrabble. It features four of the game’s
highest ranking players and their quest for the winning prize of $25,000 at the
2002 National Championship in San Diego.
This is the second film about words I have seen in the last [...]
Crosswords are becoming an addiction to me. I can only conclude, I must be very impressionable (Note: Impressionable doesn’t mean gullible). After seeing the documentary “Wordplay”, it reawakened the desire to do crosswords. Doing crosswords helps keep the mind active.
But this isn’t about crosswords, addictions or gullibility. It’s about a clue I saw in [...]
Normal Guy 50-Words-or-Less Plot: A tired, alcoholic New York City cop tries to get a witness sixteen blocks to the courthouse all the while being chased by other cops who want to stop him.
The has-been, out of shape NYC cop is Jack Mosley (BRUCE WILLIS). He’s had it with his job. He’s had it with [...]
The Normal Guy 50-Words-Or-Less Plot: Various peoples’ lives are affected by an act of violence which also shows how they are connected.
There are four stories and here they are:
Richard and Susan Jones (BRAD PITT and CATE BLANCHETT) are an unhappily married couple who travel to Morocco to try and get their lives together after [...]
