Pixar makes good movies and Brave is a good movie. But like every successful studio they seem to be slipping into the George Lucas mindset of using more special effects and not worrying so much about the story. Brave was an amazing looking film, the hair and water were especially well done. In fact, much of the film had a hyper-real look that was at times at odds with the usual cartoony people who live in the Pixar universe. This has always been a major gripe of mine-Pixar can make water and hair more real than reality but all their…
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The story of an odd family told through the eyes of a young woman who can taste people’s emotions from the food they prepare. This kind of food mind reading is not fun and our hero tends to eat as many manufactured foodstuffs as she can. Machines have no bad feelings to impart on their food. Author Aimee Bender just drops us into the story and lets us discover along with the young woman what it is like to taste her mother’s sadness and the baker’s anger and the harvester’s disgruntlement. But the girl who can taste people is not…
True Blood-They Are All Monsters
Season 3 of True Blood wraps up with a few finial twists and turns that show us that the Good Guys aren’t so good. Our hero vampire Bill took a number steps this season that showed he was more evil than we thought. His casual betrayals pop up throughout the season, with his constant backstabbing causing a rift in his relationship with Sookie. Our good old boy bartender Sam turns out to be more of a cold blooded killer and less of a poor misunderstood shapeshifter. Sookie takes the time to torture an evil vampire and takes great pleasure in…