Micro movie reviews

I'm behind on these.

• Crazy Horse--a long, Frederick Wiseman (i.e. narrationless) documentary on the Paris nightclub. Long on sexy, nearly naked dancing, short on the dancers' stories.
• Shame--the story of a super-handsome guy with a sex addiction and a crazy sister. Not a sympathetic, or even half-way interesting, character in the whole film.
• The Iron Lady--excellent Streep performance, lousy film. 

Somali thugs win one

Greek ship with all-Filipino crew seized off Somalia

From the Department of Unnecessary Signs

(Queensland Police Service/Reuters)

Mangled metaphor of the day

It’s a matter of coming up with something that does not kill the baby with the bath water.

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