If you've not seen JCS, I can heartily recommend it. It's excellent for many reasons: the songs, the acting, the singing, the setting, the nostalgic value, and the ability to make the viewer think. It's my favorite musical, and it's also on my list of top 20 movies in general. I've talked about it with ministers, Germans, devout church-goers, lapsed Catholics, non-believers, and even a drunk student in Madrid (who burst Jesus' part from "What's the Buzz"). The point is, if you're thinking, "But I'm not religious, so I'm not really interested," then you should still give it a chance. Read more [...] Jesus Christ Superstar
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If you've not seen JCS, I can heartily recommend it. It's excellent for many reasons: the songs, the acting, the singing, the setting, the nostalgic value, and the ability to make the viewer think. It's my favorite musical, and it's also on my list of top 20 movies in general. I've talked about it with ministers, Germans, devout church-goers, lapsed Catholics, non-believers, and even a drunk student in Madrid (who burst Jesus' part from "What's the Buzz"). The point is, if you're thinking, "But I'm not religious, so I'm not really interested," then you should still give it a chance. Read more [...] 
It's been fairly quiet around here this week... almost too quiet. If Cinematic Attic were a movie, I'd be walking down a deserted street, sidestepping newspapers proclaiming an imminent zombie apocalypse. I'd have no idea how I got here, and I'd have no idea what to do. Then suddenly, a mutant vampire would grab at my leg from a sewer grate!
OK, I guess it's not been that quiet here, and I imagine we writers got all hot and bothered for the Oscars and then ended up taking this week off to recover 
This last weekend I happened upon three "documentaries." I put the word in quotation marks because out of the three, only one looked and performed like what I'd consider a traditional documentary. Here's what I saw:
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Actually, you can watch this documentary online. I'll even embed it here, so go nuts because it's great and relatively short (one hour).
PARALLEL WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES from EELS on Vimeo.
If it's not working or if you'd prefer to know what the documentary 
Let me be Blunt: I watched three (3) Emily Blunt movies in the last two days. This was originally coincidental, but then deliberate (once I thought of the title for a blog post, I sort of created a self-fulfilling prophecy).
The last time we came back to Costa Rica I brought with us some old copies of "Entertainment Weekly" that my family was done with, and some of the movies that came up in lots of reviews and interesting comments happened to involve Emily Blunt. I then decided to watch three 
... and it turns out it's got nothing do to with pimps. Well, not normally, at least.
Let's take a step back for a moment. I'm referring not to the Scarlet Pimpernel, but rather The Black Pimpernel, a Swedish/Chilean movie released a few years ago. It tells the story of the Swedish ambassador to Chile during the 1970s Pinochet revolution. He saved around 1,300 people from likely death, and is often compared to Oskar Schindler.
The movie was pretty good, although it does seem to take a bit of 
(Note: There's plenty of bad language in this post, so if you don't like that or don't want your kids exposed to it, be warned. Ironically, if The Hobbit had this much profanity, it might have gotten a rating that would have prevented a lot of the problems I'll describe in this post... which is ripped from the headlines!)
So here's the deal. We live in Costa Rica, and we hardly go out. We went to watch Life of Pi at the movie theater in San Ramón last weekend, and we joked that it was our "yearly